Archive for the ‘Computing’ Category.
3rd September 2000, 07:43 pm
I’ve started to use mutt as my email-client. This is
very cool, but unfortunately I’ve lost some mail in the process :-(
Sendmail was installed as a standard part of my
Redhat 6.2. But it was only when I started using
mutt that I noticed that it wasn’t properly
configured. Sendmail is probably the most
difficult thing to configure, so I decided that it was time to try
qmail. Although qmail is
much easier to configure that sendmail, I
still managed to loose some mails.
So if you have sent any mails to me around 16-17 GMT, then please send
it again. So now you know, that it is not just simple ignorance, if I seam
to be ignoring you :-)
2nd September 2000, 12:19 pm
Today I submitted PHP Weather to
Freshmeat. So now it should be much easier for
people to find. With a little luck, this should appear on the
frontpage today. This should also generate a lot of hits.
28th August 2000, 10:45 pm
The news-system, the scripts, everything is working. I’ll explain how
everything works later, for now you can take a look at the
source.
28th August 2000, 10:17 pm
This should work. I’m testing my new news-system. If this works, then it
can’t be all wrong :-)
24th August 2000, 09:59 pm
I’m currently working on a new and improved version of my news-system. The
current system is based entirely on text-files. Why did I choose to use
text-files, instead of entering the news into something like
phpMyAdmin, you might ask.
The answer is simple: I can use Emacs to write the
text-files, but would have to use a browser (like
Netscape) to enter the information
into phpMyAdmin. And the current system works beautifully. I now have about
85 text-files in the include directory, and the page is still rendered pretty fast.
But using text-files isn’t the smartest way to store data. If I had stored
the news in a database, I could search them easily or group them into
different topics.
So, I had to find a way to bridge the gap between
Emacs and the database. The solution, what I’m
working on right now, is to write a text-file, parse the file with PHP and put
the results into the database. That way I can still use Emacs to write the news,
but I also get the fancy features of the database.
I’ll let you know when it’s finished, so you can take a look at my code.