Announcements

The Local Weather Forecast add-on that I created may have caused a database corruption problem I had on one of my sites.

I have changed the way the cached information is handled (added slashes to data) and I have not had a recurrence of the sql errors that I believe may have damaged my site's database.

Before I made this change I was getting sql errors when the data was stored in the cache. This did not happen every time. Just sometimes. But it seemed to happen more often with certain zip codes. (Perhaps caused by regional differences in the original html.)

I've also made some other changes that should make the HTML translation of the original NOAA material more tolerant of regional differences.

Because of the possible database corruption it is important to remove the old version of the index.php and replace it with the new one.

The original story about the weather forecast add-on is here.

The local weather forecast add-on files are available here.

This theme can be seen at http://stounemountain.com if you have sugestions please let me know. I have uploaded it to Squatty's site.

Dragonfly

Last week I released my menu plug-in and was amazed at the wide reception it received. Particularly, the international interest. Let me give you some figures to let you know what I mean. The day before I released my plug-in my site received 9 unigue visitors, the day I released the plug-in my site received 189 unique visitors (thats 6956 hits). The second day 138 visitors. The third day 66. The fourth day 31. A normal interest spike.

What I found unusual was the Geographic distribution. I had visitors from at least 30, perhaps as many as 35, different countries (over 10% of ips won\'t resolve). Besides the United States, the top countries were Canada 5%, Netherlands 3%, Denmark 3%, United Kingdom 2%, Germany 2% and Australia 2%.

I exchanged email with people who had websites in Poland, Germany, Australia, Russia, Canada, Belgium and Indonesia. Rather Amazing I thought.

Tom