Holiday Improvements
I’ve had most of the day off from work due to the Homecoming holiday at UF, and it has been absolutely fabulous. I have spent nearly all of my time in front of my laptop listening to new music and hacking on projects for Bactroid.net that I never seem to get around to while working forty hours per week. In that vein, I have:
- Made it possible to see a list of current users just by accessing the User page without a specified user. This is a feature that Karen requested about a billion years ago. In the end, this only took about fifteen minutes (one SQL query and a bit of PHP).
- Made the Sections show up in the Bactroid.net RSS feed as categories. This will enable Technorati to assign those sections as tags. This change that I’ve been putting off for months took about five minutes. And that includes the time spent documenting the change.
- Eliminated the need for Bactroid.net’s content management system to run with PHP’s register_globals turned on. The code for Bactroid.net pre-dates PHP 4.2, so it was designed before register_globals was turned off by default. I went out of my way to secure the code in the first place, but it’s comforting to know that now the code runs just fine with the default php.ini file that ships with PHP. This took around two hours of programmer trance.
The only time I left the apartment today was to throw out a cardboard box and bring in the latest cube storage box from the trunk of the car. I’m as happy as Wayne Rooney in a nursing home.
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