Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Screw this, I’m going .Net!!! … As in http://www.rvdavid.net that is. Due to a mishap which resulted in my domain name being held hostage by my old host 2mhost, I’ve decided to forget about the .com domain and shift to .net!
It’s been a dark couple of weeks, but now that there’s light at the end of the tunnel and the dust has settled, what emerges from the ashes is the my new domain rvdavid.net. It’s a long story but I’ll tell the tale for those who want to read. Continue on to quickly review the way that 2mhost, the cheap web hosting company, services with customers.
update: I noticed that they have added a “why am I seeing this website?” link which is a mailto link to enom’s whois-help.info. Just so it’s known, my gripe is not because my domain has expired. What makes this thing sour for me is that 2mhost had/is deliberately ignoring my attempts to contact them to achieve the resolution that I as a once paying customer deserve. - At the time, I coudln’t access the rvdavid.com domain through enom since 2mhost is the registered reseller - no other routes to take aside from dealing with 2mhost directly - who don’t answer my emails - am I asking them to bend over backwards? no way! but ffs guys, respond to emails.
You had no problems replying to emails when I was a brand new sale! anyway… the story goes…
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
There are times when you will need to force a database upgrade in Wordpress, unfortunately, this did not really solve my problem of fixing “WordPress database error: [Table ‘mydatabase.wp_post2cat’ doesn’t exist]” (see this post for the solution), but for those who may need to “force” an upgrade, this is how you do it.
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
“WordPress database error: [Table ‘mydatabase.wp_post2cat’ doesn’t exist]”
Recently, I’ve started receiving the above error message after I created my posts. A little unnerving, but it seemed to be alright. The site was running fine aside from the errors.
After trying to force an upgrade of my Wordpress Database - which did not work, I looked around a little more and apparently, the following tables have been removed from WordPress in it’s latest version 2.3:
- post2cat
- link2cat
- categories
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Well, it’s been a hectic couple of months for me, I’ve moved to a new house. Things are slowly falling into place. I’ve purchased gardening tools, door wedges, weed killer, saw and lawn fertiliser, made a payload of phone calls and emails to my nameless builder and associated contractors who can’t seem to get things “quite” right and seem to be testing my well mannered patience.
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Well, the past few months have been extremely busy for me. Actually, the last time I had posted anything was JUST before I had started development on DevScripts.
DevScripts is basically an online script directory, which needed to be rewritten and needs to be cleaned up badly. Buttloads of Software applications made their way into the listing along with an unsalvagable/unrefactorable code base - yuck!
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Exciting news! Cubix Goes 2.1!
For those who may have missed it, Cubix is the name we gave our home grown framework (don’t sweat it haters, it’s not open source and I won’t be putting it up for public consumption, keep those eyeballs “unrolled”).
Cubix was basically created last year after exploring Zend (which was at the time at a very early preview release), Cake (a little rigid and some scalability issues, also looked like it was ready to bloat), Code Igniter (the focus on a small foot print would have hindered scaling an app) and Symfony (there’s a “how to use symfony” book. I did not really want to spend a few months learning Symfony). More…
Saturday, June 2nd, 2007
Well, busy again it would seem, I was making good progress and managed to get regular posts slowly rolling along. However, on my way to completing my next post on the view helper and template view design pattern, I had to cut my break short.
So yes, I apologise in advance for being dormant for a few weeks. I have a few half baked posts which I will be working on at times when I need to procrastinate.
Stay tuned. :)
Monday, May 14th, 2007
Now that I have a bit of time on my hands I thought I’d organise my categories a little better. I’ve added a new category called “Tips for beginners” which will consist of grass roots, entry level tips for those who have just embarked upon the journey of Web Development with PHP.
I’ve also created a new category for my “General Notes”. I’ve noticed that from time to time, I find myself thinking about subject matter that would be good to share, but is not a big enough subject to make a blog post about. So I created this category to serve as a repository for such ideas about small but important subject matter.
These new sub categories can be found under PHP Programming. As a final note, I’d like to add that I’ve moved the PHP Design Patterns category as a sub category to PHP Programming. Please update your feeds.
Regards,
RV David.