Jan

8th

2010

Revisiting Old Ideas: Habari's Installer

Several months ago, I worked on making Habari's installer simpler and easier to maintain. After reading the plan on the habari-dev mailing list, it looks like I did one of my common mistakes; I tried to change too many things at once. You can view the result in the 081018-handlers branch.

With that in mind, I'ld like to revisit the idea; here's what I'ld do to the installer:

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Jan

2nd

2010

Crawling Through Habari's 404 "Handler"

Couple of weeks ago I noticed PDO exceptions in my Habari logs, Google's crawler was most often the originator and I couldn't read the full message since Habari's error handling system is still very basic.

After checking the Webmaster Tools on my Google Account, I noticed their crawler kept requesting high-numbered pages on the Atom feed. Found out the 'last-page' parameter was calculated with the site's pagination option rather the Atom feed's. Reported: Ticket #1112.

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