http://my.afterdawn.com/drd/all_links.cfm All blogs are stored in user's profile at my.afterdawn.com. hourly 2 http://my.afterdawn.com/drd/blog_entry.cfm/3330/mixing_utf8_columns_to_latin1_mysql_database_and_getting_away_with_it Had "one of those days" .. actually two of them. With the joys of trying to make sense to the swamp called character encoding. Now, to explain the situation, you must understand the difference between ISO-8859-1 (and its sister, ISO-... http://my.afterdawn.com/drd/blog_entry.cfm/2884/convert_utf8_data_stored_in_latin1_table_to_latin1_data_in_latin1_table Encountered weird problem today, when moving data from an ancient Wordpress installation to AfterDawn's own table structure. Apparently, for whatever reason, WP's tables were set by default to be in latin1 encoding, but the data that WP inserted to those ... http://my.afterdawn.com/drd/blog_entry.cfm/2790/10_years_as_a_web_developer Phuh, today, despite it being April Fools' Day, marks a milestone for me, personally. Exactly ten years ago I began my career as a professional web developer. My first employer was called LPG Innovations, now-defunct web development house that became quit... http://my.afterdawn.com/drd/blog_entry.cfm/2224/splitting_up_a_forum_database Ok, this is just me thinking out loud, nothing to prove my theory or correctness of my thinking yet, but wanted to put something in paper anyway, in case something comes up and I forget the concept before having time to work on the process.. Anyway, ev... http://my.afterdawn.com/drd/blog_entry.cfm/2192/over_100000_suspended_accounts Wow, just checked our internal stats (nice page collecting tons of various useful/useless data from our site to one admin page) and realized that we have now well over 100,000 suspended user accounts. I find it somewhat hilarious, as I visit regularly on ... http://my.afterdawn.com/drd/blog_entry.cfm/2183/ In Finland, we have quite generous (at least from U.S. perspective) summer vacation of four weeks. Had mine in July -- and it pretty much rained whole of July. Now that I'm (at least partially -- the good thing about being an enterpreuner..) back from my ... http://my.afterdawn.com/drd/blog_entry.cfm/1554/new_features_to_my_afterdawn_added We just launched a new version of our my project that adds more RSS feeds (pretty much every imagineable feed we could think of..), tags to pictures and blog entries, bust your buddy buttons all around the site to report offensive material, etc. This w... http://my.afterdawn.com/drd/blog_entry.cfm/1072/my_links_rss_feed We added a minor improvement to the my.afterdawn.com profile pages. Now each user has a small rss feed button (looks exactly like the feed button in Firefox) next to My links title. What is it good for? Say, if you're using a remote computer and don... http://my.afterdawn.com/drd/blog_entry.cfm/976/opera_9_http_file_upload_problem_solved We spent half an eternity this week trying to debug why on Earth Opera 9 doesn't allow HTTP uploads. After thousands of trials and errors, we found that if the Opera 9 is the strict mode, it doesn't recognize form encoding set to enctype=MULTIPART/FORM-DA... http://my.afterdawn.com/drd/blog_entry.cfm/588/spring_2006_at_afterdawn This spring has been truly chaotic at AfterDawn Ltd.. We've been working on several new projects during the last 6 months or so -- this my was the first one to go public beta back in December. In March, we rolled out yet another beta -- our gaming sit...