Sean Coates: PHP, Web (+Beer)

Many of you noticed that my blog was "hacked" last night.

To everyone who mentioned my blog problem: thanks. It looks like it was human error on my part (deleted the DB), so lucky guy got installer.

Sean Coates

I looked into it, with the help of my friends in #habari, and it turns out that it was just me being an idiot, and deleting the SQLite database for my blog before going to bed.

There was absolutely no evidence of other hacking, and I'm sure it wasn't Habari's fault, after reviewing all of the forensic data I could gather up.

Sorry about that. (-:

(not a fun way to start Monday morning, by the way)

Update:

Also, I know I've been having feed problems. This is a known issue in Habari (updated posts getting moved to the top of the feed), and we're working on it. In the meantime, I think I've got it sorted out.

Hi all.

Quick note to say that I've moved my blog from blog.phpdoc.info to seancoates.com, mostly because I want to shift toward a wider focus than phpdoc.info infers.

I've also changed my blogging software from the horribly slow (it became that way, I suspect partially due to database problems) Serendipity to the shiny and new Habari 0.5-dev.

I've been tinkering with Habari for a couple months now, and I'm really liking both the code and the community.

As you may or may not have already heard (and may or may not care), I've left php|architect and have started a new work-life at OmniTI. So far, I'm really liking it, especially the team of great people over here.

Anyway, I've been putting off blogging for months for various reasons. Hopefully now that one of those reasons (dying blog platform) is out of the way, I'll be able to get back on the wagon.

(BTW, I've taken care to redirect all of my old links to my new blog, but if you happen to find one that doesn't work as expected, please do let me know. Thanks!)