July
11
I’ve been pretty much an offline boy for the past week, it’s VAT return time which means going through everything we have bought and sold and putting it down on paper for no one to read. Luckily, I have a pretty decent system of recording total sales, overheads, wages and wotnot (yup, wotnot seems to take a lot of money!) so it hasn’t been too bad.
I was a little bit anxious to be leaving the half finished url registration script I was making for ComLuv but, the missus needed help figuring out how to use the accounting software and being the good boy that I am, spent ages going through all the buttons and menus.
We ended up transferring it all to paper so she could understand it. hah!
I think I’ll have to make a simpler spreadsheet that mirrors the format of her paper system and see if that can bring her into the 19th century (we don’t want to bring her too far forward) lol
Good news is, we’re just about done and she’s off for a few days to London so I get double monitor fun with my pc and some php here and there. I should have something up and working by Wednesday if I manage to find my mojo in time.
(I’m still waiting to hear from a theme designer I paid over a week ago too but I’m trying not to think about that)
happy blogging everyone!
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July
26
Thanks to my new server provider MaxtorHost FiddyP blog is now much faster and secure. The commentluv script is also more secure and faster.
My previous server was a bit pants, the plesk dashboard was super slow, ftp was unreliable and support was terse and “couldn’tgiveatoss”. I managed to overcome the ftp problems by telnet’ing to the server and gzipping the httpdocs folder and database (old phpmyadmin wouldn’t download an export file grrr). The kind support at Maxtor Host was able to restore my database and all root files and folders within minutes of me asking in a support ticket.
Now I don’t have to worry about losing any posts since before I went on holiday, I can get on with my master plan for the new CommentLuv site and perhaps get the AJAX version sorted so it can be easily installable and should be compatible with typepad blogs too.
I’m kinda busy with a lot of stuff I have to catch up on but I’ll get there eventually! Thanks to all those that wished me happy travelling. It was an awesome holiday which I’ll write about soon enough…
hazaa for Maxtor Host who can provide a managed semi-dedicated server for hundreds of dollars less than the crappy streamline.net. (their support roks too)
[edit]I signed up to their affiliate program after Jon’s comment below and changed the links to aff ones in the post
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