I finally got around to adding my portfolio to the website. Please check it out. I’m slowly getting around to making the site more complete. I will add a resume soon too among other things.
I host all my servers with The Planet and a few days back, all at the same time, my MySQL databases started hangin up. The process list (“show processlist”) was showing many many unauthenticated user connections from 192.168.xxx.xxx. MySQL was trying to do a reverse dns lookup on the connecting IP address and was either stalling or failing on the request. I assume something went wrong with the dns server.
The work around is to insert “skip-name-resolve” into your my.cnf file and restart the server and MySQL will no longer run reverse dns on connecting IP addresses. To avoid your facing sudden downtime like mine, I would recommend inserting that line into your my.cnf immediately before you run into the same problem. Of course, if your mysql.user table authenticates any user based on a domain then you can’t skip resolution of IP addresses.
Elgg is the cream of the crop of open source social network software, a group which includes other products such as Dolphin, PHPizabi, LovdbyLess. It’s also significantly superior to low cost white label social network software such as Handshakes, phpFoX, SocialEngine, and so on.
Elgg stands out because
a) It looks beautiful and has a good feature set out of the box
b) Encourages the community to contribute to the project with plugins and themes. It aims to be to social networking what Drupal/Joomla are to CMS systems.
However, if scalability is a top or immediate concern, be warned Elgg may not be suited for you. Read the rest of this entry…
