Website stats script has been fixed. It now works and is live. I updated it so that it uses sessions to prevent duplicate entries. The code is now a lot cleaner and more efficient.
I still need to make some changes to some of the sub-sections for the changes to take effect. I will do that later today though, I need to get some sleep now.
Will let you know when I am done.
Update: All sections should now be showing the correct stats and tracking visitors properly.
– Suramya
The visitor stats portion of the site is down right now. I guess something went wrong when I moved the site to the new server. Since I have to fix the tracking script anyway, I am taking this opportunity to update the scripts to make them more efficient. I hope to finish the scripts over the weekend, but lets see how that goes.
– Suramya
After a while of procastination I have finally finished the new guestbook script and its now live. Check it out at: http://feedback.suramya.com
New Features:
Check it out and let me know what you think of it.
Thanks,
Suramya
No I am not dead. I know I said that I would post more updates soon but didn’t.
There were two problems preventing me from posting. First: I was sick with a bad cold and a sore throat from hell. The cold made my eyes water a lot which made working on the computer pretty hard. (You can imagine how much I enjoyed that…). When I finally started getting better I found that the server hosting suramya.com was having problems. This was the same server which has been having problems all this year and this time I think the RAM and HDD both were failing. To make things interesting mysql kept segfaulting on certain queries, perl segfaulted everytime you ran it. apache refused to run for a long time.
So I built a new machine to replace this one. To make things fun, the cpu fan died on the first system I built. Since I had another spare system available I rebuilt the distro on the second one, but guess what the cpu fan on the second one also died. By this time I was pretty mad so I dissected another computer and put the fan from that one in the new one. Then the machine actually worked.
So After making a mirror of suramya.com on the new server I had to drive to the NY office to replace the old server with the new one. I finally did this about 2 hours ago so as of now suramya.com is back up completely. I did do some work on the new feedback script so expect to see some changes by the end of the week.
Well this is all for now. Will post more later. Thanks for visiting.
– Suramya
Hi,
I changed the photogallery script to sort the section listing in reverse chronological order instead of sorting it by name as suggested by Vivek. I think it makes more sense to sort it that way.
Please let me know if you have any trouble with the gallery ’cause of this.
– Suramya
Finally decided to cleanup my image archive and post all the pics from the various trips I have taken over the past few years. I still have ~ 400 pics left to sort through so posting them all will take some time.
Sections Added to the Photogallery:
More updates coming soon.
– Suramya
Found out that some of the pages in the Tech section stopped working when I reinstalled php and apache on the server.
I have fixed the pages, added some links and removed dead links from the various articles in the tech section. Will be adding more stuff to the tech section sometime this week.
– Suramya
Made some backend changes to the website to make it easier for me to add new photographs to the photogallery. Working on the feedback section right now. Should have a new version up soon.
Also uploaded the photographs from my latest Washington trip to the photogallery. Thinking about uploading some more pics but the probability of that happening tonight is very low.
Well this is all for now. Will keep you posted.
– Suramya
Installed a new software on the server to allow me to monitor the visits to my website in a bit more detail than it was possible using the program I wrote. (Actually installed it on the 4th, but didn’t start using it till today).
It actually works very well. Found that my site is returned as one of the top results when you search for ‘diwali pictures’ 🙂
– Suramya
Hi Everyone,
I have changed the way the Website News gets its information to make it more efficient. Now the site news on the Suramya.com main page pulls the information from my blog automatically.
The main advantage of this change is that I don’t have to edit the PHP pages to post a new item, I can just post an item on my blog and its posted on the site instantly. This means that you will see a lot more frequent news updates on the site.
More changes like this are in the works, along with a couple of new articles so make sure you revisit soon to check out the changes.
Thanks,
Suramya
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