CHIP.in gets a forum update

The week that went by saw a lot of activity on the CHIP forum. It was high time we updated forum. After a talk over “chai” with the  new one point of contact for web development I got to work.  Migration  of the database was the concern. Fortunately there is a tried and tested way that comes bundled along with the new installation of pphBB3 that converts the underlining database schema. Coming to think of it, an installation of phpBB3 would be incomplete without the database conversation scripts

Migration hung midway complaining “duplicate usernames in the user table”. A quick, crude, home brewed php script looked up the user table for duplicate username entries and deleted them.  Migration was in business again trashing the database with insert queries.  At the  end of day one [monday] we had a vanilla installation of phpBB3 serving migrated data. Released it to the mods/admins for alpha testing

Over the next two days it was time to play with CSS to make it look and feel like CHIP.

Thursday dawned and it was time to go live. The forum went offline at 10am. Work work work, some serious typing on the keyboard and nine hours later, as scheduled we were online at 7pm. By the time I wrapped up for the day it was 12:45am Friday.  With  Electron Blue  blaring loud I walked out of the office. It felt like I was on cloud #9. Its getting obvious that this is what I live for

Been fixing minor bugs over the weekend

Search engine optimization and mods are on the table this week. Coupled with server administration, this is going to be another long fun week

printf(“Hello Monday”);

UPDATE: 5th December

Awwwww, that is so sweet Brian and thank you for the first run copy

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