PowerBlogs.Com Development

Ok, I'm finally back from my honeymoon and settled in enough to start blogging again, which I will do faithfully, from now on. :)

Today's news is a few bug fixes: unclosed HTML comments in the sidebar special content will no longer kill the save button on the edit page, and quotes in co-blogger author accounts won't interfere with the "Set Contact Info for an Author" drop-down any more.

I'm also getting pretty close on getting report generation back up and running. The improvements that I've been making will dramatically reduce memory usage, so things should be good for the long-term, then.

Tom (Powerblogs sysadmin and temporary support contact) here.

It's my honor to announce to the Powerblogs community the marriage of Chris (Powerblogs's owner, programmer, and general guy who gets things done) and Beth (our new theme designer). They were married in a really nice church ceremony, and we had a great reception. Of course, as best man, I might be a bit biased.

Anyway, while Chris and Beth are away, I'll be running Powerblogs. Server load is looking good, but Chris wasn't able to re-enable reports before he left. (I had to threaten his laptop to get him to start getting into his Tux.)

If people address problems to me, I'll do the best I can to handle them. If you email the usual support at powerblogs.com addres, I'll be getting the mail.

Anyway, let me close by once again congratulating the newlyweds.

(I have to apologize for being pretty behind in updating this blog, which I have been for a few months. Development has been going on at a fairly steady pace, I've just been a bit forgetful of posting because development has also involved some late nights.)

Anyhow, the performance issues are improving — the largest blogs have been moved over to the new server, which barely seems to be noticing the load. The original server is still under some load, but the maximum load is not only greatly reduced, it happens less frequently, too. Overall things are doing much better already, and still improving.