AmigaCoding logbook

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2012

2 jun - added custom spam prevention measures and added more blacklisted phrases
.. may - added some blacklisted phrases (ones that worked good)
29 may - account creation now requires typing over a Captcha (against spam)
27 may - some more blacklisted phrases and urls against spam
25 may - some more blacklisted phrases added against spam
24 may - in an attempt to protect against the massive incoming waves of spam, enabled proxy blocking, added blacklisting by regular expression and added my own blacklisted urls to SpamBlackList
19 may - installed the SpamBlackList extension (which doesn't allow saving an article if it includes a banned URL)
17 may - Updated from MediaWiki v1.12 to v1.17beta1
10 feb - bad luck struck again, had to make a change to the DNS settings and the website should be reachable again soon
1 feb - database was corrupt, might have been since 3 days ago. Manually fixing failed, problem solved five minutes after mailing my webhost :).

9 apr - trying again to solve the out of memory after saving a page. might have to update mediawiki

4 apr - website seems to be running at full speed again
2 apr - redirect from old URL to new to purge old URL from searchengines and help people use the correct address (with 301: Permanent Redirect)
1 apr - submitted support ticket at webhost (because website has been slow for at least a week)
24 mar - added syntax highlighting for code
7 mar - got permission from Kyzer to use his articles on AMOS File Formats
1 feb - moved to another hosting account/server (better speed/uptime, no redirecting of url)
? - added the text from 'A potted history of AMOS' to AMOS:History
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20 nov - Finished with getting the AMOShelp into the WIKI !! :D
19 nov - Some more converting and fixing
18 nov - By hand converting lists and tables in AMOShelp pages
17 nov - Visited a performance of the C64 orchestra + C-Men in the evening, so couldn't finish up today
17 nov - Converted and imported the AMOShelp into the AmigaCoding WIKI
17 nov - AMOShelp 2 WIKI convert script seems ready for first usage
10 nov - asked and got permission from Chris Hodges to use the content from the AMCAF AmigaGuide/AMOSHelpfile in the WIKI
8 nov - My presentation for my study

21 oct - installed Google Analytics
19 oct - finally got DNS setup correctly for Google Apps
15 oct - installed measures to prevent spambots
13 oct - put back the persons namespace, accidently removed while adding C and Blitz (+fixed in database)
13 oct - Got permission from Francois Lionet to use the helpfile and publish whatever I want (including AMOS itself)
12 oct - Emailed Francois Lionet to request permission for using helpfile content in the WIKI
12 oct - wrote a PHP script to read the AMOSPro helpfiles
1 oct - improved look of main page with CSS

27 sep - added a C and Blitz namespace
27 sep - posted link on AMOS factory website
26 sep - started adding some knowledge from AMOS-list (1993) to the WIKI
25 sep - posted link on amos-list
23 sep - Added 'Persons' namespace
18 sep - fixed namespaces (config and database), .htaccess
17 sep - fixed DNS, starting on first tutorial
12 sep - domainname www.gamecoding.com can be activated
11 sep - requested registering of www.gamecoding.com
10 sep - setup MediaWiki + 680x0 and AMOS namespaces
9 sep - Remembered my plans for an Amiga related codingsite after both an amos-list post (about an AMOS database) and EAB post (about learning 680x0 asm) on the same day