behind the scenes

[russellbfarr]

spent a chunk of last night fixing up the www.indiebooksonline.com site: broke the php while trying to insert a new field into the database.

it works now. just waiting for the torrent of pre-orders for the new books...

Comments

[nyssa_p]

Hah! My website broke on the weekend and I got a guy to fix it yesterday and my database is corrupted and full of shit >

[russellbfarr]

i hope that doesn't happen to me. I am the tech support and have no idea on databases...

the order torrent didn't happen...

[nyssa_p]

Well I can't order till next pay check. James has dentist appointment this week, maybe getting his wisdom teeth out, and then I still have two fillings I need done. THEN bookies :D

And I think the only reason why it happened to me is because I tend to test things out on the same database/program rather than having a test site set up, so there's lots of left over crap from all the shit I've installed that didn't work out.

And sucks: you're more uber than me on php :( Heaps of people, myself included, have been begging our uni teachers for a course on PHP, but apparently the uni itself wants there to be pointless theory crap and leave all the practical stuff like PHP to TAFE. LAME!

[russellbfarr]

That's why TAFE is better than Uni ;)

(I'll take off my work hat now -- I work in marketing TAFE and this is one of our selling points...)

wasn't asking you to buy books... just the world. *sigh*

I fake php savvy. My strength is being able to find other folks' solutions and apply those. It's an editing thing -- I can't write code but with enough guidance I can edit it.

I should do more with a test site first -- had a couple of things stuff up from not doing that.