Looks like we’re back up and running! Wahoooo!
Duke flipped the magical gift-of-power switch back at their corporate office just after 8pm (EST) and bestowed upon us joyous laughter and, well, power…
So, now that I’m able to reliably code again, without freezing my fingers off, it’s time for me to get back to my Common User Database project, which is really coming together now. I’ve got all the basic interaction stuff down, now I’m doing some groovy mod_rewrite handling, and actually creating the functions that pass data back and forth from the database.
And let’s not forget Akismet. I think I’ve got the problem with the enhanced plugin narrowed down, and it should be a fairly easy one to fix (hopefully). I also stumbled upon another function in WordPress while I was poking around looking for something totally unrelated the other night, which should clean up some of the code no one ever sees.
Looks like it should be a fun pre-Christmas week! The irony of all this is that I’m fighting to get back to the computer, since we’ve had no power, and Tom is trying to get away from it… Ahh well, I suppose it was all relaxing in its own right, just not the kind of relaxing I generally prefer.
Hope everyone else had a wonderful (and hopefully warm, power-filled) weekend. Let’s try to get back to normal now, folks!
I didn’t realize that you were really taking my idea seriously.
Absolutely! It was a good idea, and one that I’ve thought about previously in passing… I know a lot of people will go in and hack a phpBB install to pull from another database (or vice versa) so they can have their custom apps use the same login data (FeedLounge does this with punBB). There’s really no reason you should have to go in and edit stock code to meet such a simple request.
Assuming I ever get done with it, I plan on also releasing a WordPress plugin / hack (not sure if WP has API hooks for login or not) that will use it. Everything else will be up to other people, since WP is the only packaged app I use these days.
I assume that you’ll GPL and BSD this?
Oh, of course. I need to find a comparison of all the current so-called “open source” licenses somewhere, since I’m not particularly familiar with the subtle differences between them all.
Who knows, it could end up being a total free-for-all…
If you want me to dig stuff up for you, let me know…
Nah, I know you’re busy and I don’t want to add to that. If you do happen to stumble upon a relevent site, let me know, but don’t go out of your way. Is there any one (or two or three) that you prefer for one reason or another, or were GPL and BSD just off the top of your head because they’re the most common?