Joshua's Blog now with actual content!

I forgot to mention the whole reason the server issue came up... I have been trying to install .net 3.5 so I can upgrade my blog. I have an update, but it's on 3.5 whereas the server is on 2.0. Here is the process to get to .net 3.5: Install .net... [More]

Some of you may have noticed that my uptime has been rather low recently. My web server, Yggdrasil, has been BSODing and slowly generating errors that make no sense. Within the last 12 hours I have seen the stop errors 0x8e, 0xD0, 0x4e, and a few oth... [More]

It's been well over a month since my last post and I haven't done much with the website recently either. The only updates that have been done over the last month are better logging, and tweaking the keyword filter for spam filtering. I have over 100 ... [More]

Ha, it's freakin 5:41 in the morning, and here I am coding... about to fall asleep! Guess what! Part 1 of my AntiSpam (tm) project went well. Keyword matching is up and working! With weights! This means that you can specify certain words to be weighe... [More]

Well, here are a few updates about the site. Most of my work recently has been behind the scenes, optimizing code, commenting code, and lastly updating and creating new SQL procedures. I've redone how users are handled internally, now using a collet... [More]

I finally learned how to create my own user controls, which allows me to create a custom control in which I specify everything that happens... which properties it exposes, how it renders to the screen, and even the types of sub controls! If you take ... [More]

Well, I now have my view.aspx page up, so you can now click on the title of a post and be able to view the entry plus any comments (if there are any present)! It seems to be working so far, I haven't covered for a missing entry yet, so you will get a... [More]

I know you don't see anything on your end, but the backend has had a major overhaul! I finally got away from using ArrayLists to return my data and instead wrote my own collections (based off of the abstract class System.Collections.CollectionBase) a... [More]

Well, thanks to the keen eye of my brother a small, but important, slip up has been fixed. It was an artifact of using the SQL "SELECT ... WHERE ... LIKE ... %" clause, and I was just simply checking for the categories based on their index number. Th... [More]

Just a quick note! I have upgraded my main server, Tsunami, to 64-bit. More on that later! Also, it is a bunch of fun working with SQL (I haven't worked with it this much before). I have stored procedures doing all the calls into it so far, to help r... [More]