I figure it's time for an update...
Hello to anyone reading this, it's been over a year since my last entry here and I decided it was time to make an update. This might the only update I make this year if I continue the trends of the past few years. I'm still working on my website. I have a change log on the site that I try to update every time I make changes. I've moved away from large and complicated web apps for this incarnation of the site. Instead, it'll be mostly static HTML pages with a few bits of javascript and the occasional PHP page that I've written myself. My intention at the moment is for there to be no code on the site that I don't understand fully what it's doing.
I haven't figured out a good way to facilitate a way for site visitors to send feedback. Once upon a time way back in the early days of the world wide web, I would have stuck a mailto link on the main page and left it at that but that isn't viable these days. The email address would just get scooped up by scrapers and the mailbox would be choked with spam in a very short time. For the longest time, I had a feedback form page that used a CGI script that Dreamhost provided, to send an email to me without actually revealing the address to the world at large. Sadly, that script is no more. I've tried to write one in PHP but I've yet to figure out how to do write it in such a way that doesn't leave an opening for an exploit. I'm wary of anything that allows a user to open end text to the website. I need to study the language more and figure out a good solution. For now I've placed a link ro my Twitter on the change log page as a means of contacting me.
In other news I continue to be plagued by health issues and I'm still writing with the occasional short story or novella published under my pseudonym from the LD days. If you don't know what that is don't worry about it. I'm not telling! :)
I haven't figured out a good way to facilitate a way for site visitors to send feedback. Once upon a time way back in the early days of the world wide web, I would have stuck a mailto link on the main page and left it at that but that isn't viable these days. The email address would just get scooped up by scrapers and the mailbox would be choked with spam in a very short time. For the longest time, I had a feedback form page that used a CGI script that Dreamhost provided, to send an email to me without actually revealing the address to the world at large. Sadly, that script is no more. I've tried to write one in PHP but I've yet to figure out how to do write it in such a way that doesn't leave an opening for an exploit. I'm wary of anything that allows a user to open end text to the website. I need to study the language more and figure out a good solution. For now I've placed a link ro my Twitter on the change log page as a means of contacting me.
In other news I continue to be plagued by health issues and I'm still writing with the occasional short story or novella published under my pseudonym from the LD days. If you don't know what that is don't worry about it. I'm not telling! :)