February wasn’t a good month for this blog. Not only did I manage a paltry one post but I also broke my Blogroll script. Ultimately, not going well.
Since then I’ve been trying (in vain) to fix said Blogroll, plus working late and dedicating some time to a new web project which hopefully will see light of day soon.
Blog still lives, just gotta try and and fix it.
eeyyyy! you’re not dead :)
Damn! you’re not dead! ;-)
Blogroll is fixed! It now functions through a Perl script run hourly on the webserver. This seems to more reliably download the RSS than my old integrated-PHP script. Has a bonus result not having any effect on the production speed of actual pages (since the data is processed in the background) and I can change the regularity of updates from the ease of my Cron control panel. Much, much nicer than having it hacked into the top of the PHP rendering script.
In fact, with the process now separated and external, it leads to way for making it do rather more advanced tricks (such as looking up ‘most recent entry’ titles for each blog). Because it’s all in the background I can now afford to write a process that might take rather longer to run. Play time…