I'm back

I've been hammered by external projects since before thanksgiving. I also have had a hacked server to deal with, and of course that was nearly impossible to recover from, but such is life.

There has been a lot going on, however - from both a development standpoint, and a blogging standpoint. I have a ton of things I have plans to write about, so I'll be back in daily posting mode soon.

I know that scriptaculous has released a beta version with some nice morphing tools to play with and I'm sure a few people out there are interested in a compacted version of that, so one will be posted within the next 24 hours.

The hacked server has been a big headache. It certainly was possible to simply recover the files and turn everything back on, but that particular server has been plagued with problems for quite some time, so not only was it time to migrate things off of it, it was also time to do a security check on everything.

Those of you who are missing my sites, no need to worry - they should all be coming back online within the next 24 hours. That is, except for my daughter's site, which will be down for another week or so because it is going to undergo an extensive redesign and security lock-down. I'm tired of that site being listed in the search engines despite multiple exclusion requests and a deny all robots.txt file. E-mail will probably take another 3 days because the mx records have to propogate.

I'm excited that zend finally released their zend optomizer for php 5.2 - so implementing that is going to be pretty high on my priority list this week. I don't know if the problem was with the php team or the zend team, but leaving people without a solution to a major security problem for over a month is just not a good way to do business. APC and ionCube had something released right away, and eaccellerator never had a problem moving into php 5.2. The only reason for people to stick with Zend is for encoded files - and even with that purpose, developers all over are looking for alternative solutions because the compiler has been hacked too many times.