Over recent weeks, well months, I have been having fun writing scripts for pure pleasure. These have been specifically orientated around tournaments run my members of the gaming community over on Casual Collective.
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Whoever made the decision that MYSQL UPDATE’s can only be done one row at a time needs shooting. With INSERT you can insert multiple rows, why not the same for UPDATE?
As you may guess I’m trying to optimise some updates, currently 128 separate ones, into something a lot smaller. I think I can do it in under 10, which is a big improvement. But still not as small as I would like.
[update] and done – no matter how many updates need doing the script will now do it in 10!
Yes you heard me – they charge to send an email. They also make it incredibly annoying when trying to check for tickets. You fill in one form, then you have to fill in another (and thus breaking site functionality) with a captcha (don’t they know they are worthless these days?).
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I’m using PunBB 1.3 for the Irish Discworld Convention I decided to install the official toolbar, which you can see in use on that site, for adding bbcode to posts. If you test it out you can see that it doesn’t function as well as it could. It is also still present if javascript is not enabled. Not good.
Well almost everything. I quoted 6 – 8 weeks for a project and finished it within about 4 days. The testing on the other hand took longer, but that, for once, wasn’t my fault. It took ages to get an account with Payson – mainly because I don’t know Swedish! Once the testing was actually underway it took less than 4 hours!
