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27/04
If you’re seeing this, it means that our transition from Expression Engine to WordPress has all gone according to plan! We’ve made the switch because we’re firm believers in celebrating open source, and we’re much more comfortable navigating the WordPress dashboard than EE.
There’s still no doubt a few teething issues to iron out (for instance, right now we still need to sort the pages out!) but the database and accompanying users, scripts and resources have all ported over successfully.
A massive, massive thank you to Amelie who spent hours getting us prepared for the migration.
April 27, 2008 | 
By Vixx | 
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18/12
I will be taking on some more staff here at CodeGrrl to help with the maintenance and development of this site. Please read on if you’re interested in becoming part of the staff!
I’m looking for people who can do any of the following: Write coding-related tutorials; Add code snippets; Help update the FAQ and Contribute regularly to the forum and help people out.
It helps if you have a decent grasp of the main scripting languages. However, for the Tutorial and Snippet sections, anything code-related is okay (think HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ruby on Rails, ASP, etc). I’m also looking for people who could write tutorials for PC maintenance, Photoshop, blog scripts (WP, EE etc.) SEO - so it’s not just about writing scripts!
If you’re interested in helping me out with this please send me an email at mail[at] furious-angel.com with the following information:
- Your name
- Your email
- Your site URL
- Your username at the forum
- And tell me what coding languages you know or have had experience with, and why you’d like to join the staff.
I am looking for friendly, committed people prepared to help get CG back on track, people willing to write tutorials and contribute to the knowledge base here.
Thanks a million to anyone in advance for being willing to help me out.
Any questions, just ask!
December 18, 2007 |
By Vixx |
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07/09
Sorry for the slight downtime today, but I’ve had to move CodeGrrl to a new server once again. We’ve outgrown DreamHost’s shared package, and I am currently unable to afford upgrading to one of their $400 a month dedicated servers. Thanks to Vixx and Maja, we have a lovely new home on one of Maja’s servers. I think this is everything back up and running, but it’s getting quite late here and I’m tired, so if you spot any errors I missed (and I’m sure there are some!!) please let us know!
Thanks, and apologies once again for the downtime!
September 7, 2007 |
By Sasha |
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20/08
Just to let everyone know, I have moved CodeGrrl to a new server tonight. We are now hosted by Dreamhost. Over the past 6 months or so, visitors have been increasing steadily, and the old server just wasn’t coping with the load from the forums very well anymore.
The move went pretty smoothly, I am just now fixing the last few bugs in the forums. The MySQL database I moved over was 88MB in size - the vast majority of it caused by the forums! Anyway, I think everything is pretty much back up and running, but please let me know if you spot any errors anywhere.
Hopefully our new location will provide us with faster page loading and less downtime!
August 20, 2006 |
By Sasha |
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21/12
Security risk with phpBB boards
Following personal experience of such an attack, I thought I’d quickly mention this here so that, hopefully, I can prevent anyone else from undergoing the same fate!
As you can read here and here, there’s currently a rampant worm that’s seeking and exploiting older versions of phpBB bulletin boards. Once its attacked, your will usually see the following message on all pages with .html and .php extensions:
This site is defaced!!!
NeverEverNoSanity WebWorm generation [xx].
(Please note that the generation number can vary.)
At the moment it’s still not clear whether or not this is a security problem with the board itself or if it’s with PHP version 4.3.9, but advice at the moment is to ensure that your board is running on the latest version 2.0.11 of PHPBB in order to try and minimise attack. I’d also suggest backing up your board and site just in case.
I would imagine that there are quite a number of people who read this who may use this BB, so I hope that someone finds this useful!
V xx
December 21, 2004 |
By Vixx |
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