November Site News
Thanksgiving’s come and gone, and that means the holiday shopping season is upon us. Has the current economic climate affected your plans? Thanksgiving fell on our usual recycling pickup day and, for the first time that I can recall, North Brunswick rescheduled the pickup instead of merely omitting it. Pickup was today (as noted in our calendar). I don’t mean to be mean, but I found it amusing to hear a recycling guy pointing out to a homeowner that they weren’t picking up trash, only recycling…
There were a few minutes of instability this morning during the upgrade to the latest version of the software. The upgrade went well. Some weeks back I implemented automated spam control which relieved me from attending to the chore manually. That seems to be working well, too.
This site has an extremely local focus. When someone registers, their email address is required. Naturally, as Administrator I get to see the stream of new user registrations and the variety of domains represented can be interesting. You might expect – and you’d be correct – that public email systems (like gmail.com) are the most represented. But lately there’s been an influx of registrations from yahoo.co.uk and today it’s the largest represented single domain with 31 registrations. The reason for the sudden surge in interest from Yahoo’s UK & Ireland users is beyond me.
When I moved the site from custom PHP code to the current CMS I needed to create a way to manage the attachments – images, documents, and so on – that are sometimes part of these entries. Today, of course, that functionality is built-in. So, over the next month or so I’ll be migrating old attachments to new URLs. When you access relocated attachments from on-site they’ll just work, but if you’ve bookmarked an old attachment you might need to find the new URL and bookmark it instead. The logs tell me that problems like that should be quite minimal so I’ve elected not to take the time to set up automatic redirects from the old URLs. I’m sorry for the inconvenience.
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