While working on other items this evening I decided that it was time to do a needed WordPress update from the 2.5 series to the latest in the 2.6 series. The upgrade went smoothly and, as you can see, we are back online without a hitch. Supposedly, the hot new feature of the 2.6 series …
Category Archives: Maintenance
System Outage
We had a datacenter emergency this evening. The server handling SGL lost a network interface around eleven this evening and we were offline for about an hour. We also had another really important server completely die tonight. I worked on that until well after one in the morning. No luck. Currently our plans are to …
Twitter Feed on SGL
Today we added my Twitter feed onto the main SGL page. This should make the impact of my Twittering a lot more meaningful. Now the last five Twitter updates appear automatically at the top of SGL. So even when SGL has not been updated recently you can still check in here instead of going to …
Andy Wins the Dice Tech Challenge
Thank you SGL readers for taking the time to vote for Andrew West in the Dice Tech Challenge. In the latest challenge in which Andy wrote a web application for tracking and displaying the locations of satellites as they orbit the earth, he has taken first place! He now as one victory and one fourth …
Vote for OrbTrak Right Away!
Voting closes in several hours for the latest Dice Tech Challenge. Thanks to everyone who has voted for Andy so far. For everyone who hasn’t – please get out and place your vote right away. He needs every one that he can get. He is currently in the top two finalist and the voting ends …