Friday, 23 May 2008

Coding, coding, coding ...

I’m sorry I haven’t added anything to this blog recently. I apologise especially for the absence of radio drama previews: I enjoy writing them, and they attract many readers here, but I just don’t have time at the moment. I do hope that they will return in the reasonably near future.

For the moment I am still busy doing a lot of web programming. A part of this work is a web application to enable the BCPS treasurer to manage his subscriber list, but the larger part of my time at the moment is spent on my Meson chess problem database. I deliberately built in no security to this, as the whole point was to make the data available to anyone who wanted to look at it. Unfortunately, reality has intervened and there have been a couple of incidents of robots scraping through the database, making free with my bandwidth allocation, so I am now locking the stable door after the horse has bolted. I hope that users will not see too many differences as I gradually put the changes live, though there will inevitably be short interruptions to service.
A third thing I am busy with is my new part-time job, which also involves web programming, which means that it ties in nicely with my other current pursuits!

I hope correspondents will forgive me as, for a short time at least, I shall probably take a while to answer their emails.

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