Archive for October, 2008

Widget not working?

By Greg - Last updated: Sunday, October 19, 2008

OK the Entrecard site appears to be working ok this morning but I have just started going  through my Inbox and have seen a few  sites where the following message instead of showing an ad: This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document Other sites have just [...]

slow but not down or is it?

By Greg - Last updated: Saturday, October 18, 2008

For the past two Saturdays Entrecard has been down due to server load or something. I am pleased to say that this morning the Entrecard site was slow but working and I have been able to visit blogs and drop on them as normal but it appears things are getting worse. I have just tried [...]

Do you use your inbox to drop and

By Greg - Last updated: Friday, October 17, 2008

if so how far back do you go? I was talking to a fellow blogger (jobysblog.com) a few days and the question came up about how far back we go through our Entrecard inbox when dropping on other blogs. I tend to just go to the blogs that have dropped on me today and yesterday, [...]

Simplest things is actually ….

By Greg - Last updated: Wednesday, October 15, 2008

the most stupid things. Those that have been reading this blog for a while you will know that I am primarily a perl developer but a few months ago said I wanted to learn php. Well I am still playing with php and wrote a small script yesterday that I couldn’t get to work. I’ve [...]

OIOPublisher is working

By Greg - Last updated: Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Thanks to Simon over at OIOPublisher for helping be sort out the problems I was experiencing with the plugin, I think it was a mix of a small type in the latest version of OIOPublisher and something I had done wrong but yet again Simon was quick to resolve the issue. If you want to [...]

why do the simplest things ..

By Greg - Last updated: Tuesday, October 14, 2008

take so long to do? LOL I am working on a small 10 line php script and I can’t get the stupid thing to work, you can be sure it will be something really silly.

Praise where praise is due

By Greg - Last updated: Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Although I appear to be experiencing problems with the OIOPublisher plugin for my blog I must say that the support I am getting from Simon is 2nd to none. He is obviously determined to find out what is/is not working and responds to my messages quickly and efficiently. Give the man a medal.

problem with OIOPublisher on my blog

By Greg - Last updated: Monday, October 13, 2008

It appears that there is some kind of problem with OIOPublisher which I have running on this blog. The problem occurs when and advertiser places an order, you complete the form and when you submit it reports that there was a problem with the submission. The order is actually being placed in the database so [...]

How has entrecard solved the problems?

By Greg - Last updated: Sunday, October 12, 2008

Over the past couple of days Entrecard has experienced problems with their site etc as discussed in my post at here So when things returned to normal, although temporarily as it now appears? They launch a blog contest? Ok the contest does not ask you to promote Entrecard themselves but you are asked to promote [...]

EntreCard needs to do something before it dies

By Greg - Last updated: Saturday, October 11, 2008

For the second Saturday in a row I have logged into my entrecard account to find it running at a snails pace. Last Saturday they said that they where looking into it and by later that day things did improve, this week it is as bad again if not worse. On the Entrecard forum at [...]