Hastings Musical Festival Syllabus on line!

The syllabus for the 2011 Hastings Musical Festival is now online

Hackers

A site I designed for a local petshop has been hacked yet again. This time, it appears that the hosting company server had been hacked using another users account.



 Time to find a new host I guess

Disaster Recovery

Followers of this blog will know that I help out the Hastings Musical Festival with their computer systems. We had a bit of a disaster today. With the opening day of the Festival only three days away, the main website went down. I notified the hosts of the fault and quickly put up a holding page.

Whilst waiting for the hosting company to fix the fault, I set about restoring a recent backup of the site to my in-house server and re-directing the domain (together with the associated paraphernalia such as editing DNS entries, both with the hosting company and on my own server).

As luck would have it, as soon as I'd got my temporary server up and running, the hosting company emailed me to say they had resolved the fault.

At least it gave me a good chance to implement and test my disaster recovery procedures.

Hastings Musical Festival - 2010 Programme now available

The 2010 Programme for the Hastings Musical Festival is now available both from the usual outlets and a class schedule on the website.

Hastings Musical Festival - Linkup with Hastings Rock

I've just had an email from Molly informing me that Hastings Rock have agreed to give all entrants in the Rock Band classes of the Hastings Musical Festival have a chance to get their music played on Hastings Rock Radio station. More information is on the Festival Website.

More work on the Musical Festival administration

Work on the Hastings Musical Festival administration site continues apace. The latest phase is the production of certificates. Unfortunately,. I have been unable to get the PDF conversion routine to handle a full A4 page image as a background, so we will fall back onto over-printing the certificates for this year, but I hope to have it cracked by the 2011 Festival. The only bits remaining to migrate from the old Microsoft Access database onto the PHP/MySQL solution are that of inputting marks and calculating the winners of the Aggregate trophies (of which there are more than 100!).

Attracting Birds

In an effort to do my bit for the local wildlife population, I have taken to putting some mixed seeds out for the birds each day. So far we have one robin and a dove pecking around. Hopefully we'll get a few blackbirds too. They should do a good job on the slugs that I spent much of last year impaling on a home-made spear (bit of bamboo with a pin on the end).

.htaccess

After too many queries about how to write .htaccess files, I have succumbed and am in the process of writing a PHP script to generate the most common of them. Whilst this work is nice in terms of easy profit, I feel guilty about charging for this basic service and will work to migrate most of my customers to the online version.

More PHP Development

Yet another satisfied customer. He is launching a web-based music collaboration site and wished interactivity that was not currently available. As a result, he approached the webmaster of 1066online.com for help and was referred to Roy Penfold Computer Services.

We discussed his requirements and very quickly put together a custom PHP based site that fully met his requirements.


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