Wow, this is one for the books. For the past two months, one of our client’s databases kept disappearing, and I was seriously losing my mind, because I could not solve the issue. Hostway told me that “everything was working” and that the database was either “suffering from programming errors” or “being deleted by another party.”
They even went so far as to suggest that it was being hacked. A long shot, I thought, but what do I know, right? So I spent a good part of a day changing every password, checking every connection — even adding reCAPTCHA to every log-in area.
But the database still disappeared. So I logged in to the MySQL page and saw these two data cells:
WhyAreYouOnOurServer
WhoAreYou
Kind of freaky, I know. So I added two data cells:
IAmJustin
IThinkWeHaveAProblem–E-mailMe__justinc@yadayda.com
Since then, I’ve received not one e-mail, but TWO e-mails from people who are Hostway customers who appear to all accidentally and unexpectedly share the same MySQL database. I have no idea how something like that can happen. Probably a coding error way in the background at Hostway.
In the least, it’s good to know I’m not crazy. I’m assuming my disappearing databases were a result of other customers writing to “their” database, which overwrote my data. Anyway, crazy stuff.
Posted on 21 April '09 by admin, under Life At Work, Technology. No Comments.
We went to Savannah for four days and had a great time. Stayed in a downtown bed and breakfast, which was awesome, walked all over, saw bunches of art, ate great food, rented a Vespa for a day and generally just took it super easy. Lots of glamor shots, mainly because we realized we don’t have many “us” shots. Anywho, enjoy!
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Posted on 15 April '09 by justin, under Fun Stuff, Photos. No Comments.
Andrew and I just launched a fun little web app, our first collaboration. It’s built around the idea of when people say, “there should be an award for that.” GR8WERK.com empowers you to create those awards. Whether Husband of the Year, Worst Office Party or anything else, it is a simple little app designed to let people express their celebration, sarcasm or humor in a whimsically official manner. For example:
Generally, it’s built with jQuery, AJAX and PHP. Special thanks to the Jeditable Plugin, which made the “editing in place” feature super easy.
Anywho, check out the site! Let me know what you think! There are some updates and new features on the way, but I’m going to let this simmer for a while as is.
Just a snippet for anyone using the Jeditable Plugin, which enables editing-in-place functionality via jQuery, if you want to add “maxlength” controls to the fields.
- in the jquery.jeditable.js file, add maxlength : ‘ ‘ to var settings={ }, around line 78
- in the same file, add input.attr(’maxlength’, settings.maxlength); after input.attr(’name’, settings.name); which is around line 230
- then in your main $(document).ready(function() { } ); add maxlength : ‘30′, or whatever value you want in the list of properties (indicator, type, tooltip, etc.)
That’s it. I had seen some pointers for this here, but I wanted to expand and add some clarity for all 12 people on the Internet who might be curious about this.
