We’re currently in the middle of moving to the USA. As a result, I’ve had to wave good bye to my fiber-enabled home. I’ve unplugged my Ubuntu server, am changing web hosts and therefore expect this blog, and the recently re-launched billy-corgan.com (should now redirect here), to experience some downtime during the upcoming weeks. Bookmark [...]
All posts for the month March, 2010
Downtime
Posted by Trond on March 31, 2010
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/uncategorized/2010/downtime/
Billy-Corgan.com Re-Launched as Topic Maps Based Website
Billy-Corgan.com was the first public web site I ever created and ran. I first started playing with it (and web techs) in 1998/99. In 2000, I moved it from GeoCities to its own domain name. The site had it’s golden age in 2003/2004, with up to 4 million page views / month. I believe that [...]
Posted by Trond on March 23, 2010
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/semantic-web/tm/2010/billy-corgan-com-re-launched-as-topic-maps-based-website/
MySQL BLOB to File in 20+ Lines of PHP Code
One of the nice things about PHP is how extremely quick it is to hack together a script that will save your day. Today, I needed to throw together a script for converting some images stored as BLOBs in an old MySQL database of mine, to JPEG files stored on the file system (obviously, I [...]
Posted by Trond on March 9, 2010
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/web-development/2010/mysql-blob-to-file-in-20-lines-of-php-code/