Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Therefore SQL must be the pure stuff of evil.

While doing a little maintenance on this site, I discovered we had ~6000 fake account registrations (as “Subscribers”. They never got as far as having their own blogs). These dated back to 2008. There’s must have been some vulnerability back then that got scripted.

Anyway, one simple SQL query and…

Deleted rows: 6971 (Query took 0.2440 sec)

Thanks for coming.

The traffic has settled down so I’ve added it to al the blogs and we should see some interesting results in the next week or so regarding traffic to our individual blogs.

While adding the tracking code, I realised that some of the themes I’d previously uploaded contained obfuscated code. WFT? Obfuscate a WordPress theme? I don’t think so. Who is so precious about their code that they would obfuscate PHP? And for an Open Source platform in the first place? So I have uninstalled those three themes. Nobody was using them anyway so there is zero impact from this.

For what it’s worth, For your blogging goodness, I added a couple of new themes. They are Atahualpa,  Arjuna X, and Motion.

Enjoy.

After enabling stats tracking on this site, I see we are getting a small, but significant, amount of traffic to our old wiki. Not bad considering the wiki hasn’t been there for over a year. They must be getting a lot of 404′s

So this is clearly a kick up my ass to get the wiki running again. I just hope it’s not all too late to get the old data back, wherever it may be. Fingers crossed.

Oh, I haven’t forgotten about the Trac stuff either. I’m just lazy.

There are two parts to it. The SVN repository, and the Trac installation itself. Dreamhost can provide both, but I need to work out URLs. I think I’ll go with svn.byteclub.net/projectname for the repo, and trac.byteclub.net/projectname for Trac.

Having previously decided to use subdomains for blogs on this site, this means I’ll have to ban the use of “trac” and “svn” as blog names. No big deal.

All that’s really left for me to do is test access control for Trac. I’m assuming people want public projects, but with private write access? Let me know please.

Would anyone mind if I did this? I’d happily set up sub account for specific blogs and share that data with the blogs owner.

Thoughts?

Well, both systems have matured since then (bbpress actually made it to 1.0!), and now the integration seems to be working.

So feel free to check out, and even post to, the new byteclub.net/forum . Currently only byteclub members can post to the forum, but wouldn’t that make a great topic to discuss. How about an “ask ByteClub” forum that anyone could post to?

BTW, I shall redirect the old forum.byteclub.net subdomain to the new sub-folder address. I suspect a subdomain my mess with the cookies used to aid integration.