The DOH! Network servers are coming back online. The new ip needs to propagate to the DNS servers and everything should be back to business as usual. It is interesting to see in the log files how fast hackers started hammering the system trying to gain access. I would say it only took them about 15 minutes once the connection started working to start spamming the server with ssh requests trying to connect. I made some configuration changes to disallow unknown ip access this morning and that has slowed the attempts considerably. There still are some but they are rejected before they can try to enter a password. Thanks to egrep for showing me how to block connections a while back. Shame on me for not setting it up the last time I rebuilt the server.
The DOH! Network servers will be offline January 18 through 22 as we move to our new hosting location.
I had to take a break from the code redesign I have been working on so I could set up a MineCraft server for the kids. In the process of setting it up I had to test the game for about 3 hours last night. It is actually a pretty addictive game. I didn't get it until I started 'testing'. Note to new players: After dark, all of the villagers turn into zombies so you don't want to hang out in the village at night. A module for it on the server stats page should be in the works shortly but until then you can see who is connected on this temporary DOH! Network MineCraft server stats page made by xPaw.
I was thinking yesterday it would be cool if some of my code was still live on some of the Disney sites but they have all been replaced with WordPress sites now but then I thought let me go back and look at the sample code I was writing for right before my current job. Yep! That's some pretty whack code. I recently started looking at some sites where people do walk throughs on how to code stuff and then try to figure out how to do something similar. People really do get lazy and rely on jQuery for the simplest things. Looking at my code, I see where I used jQuery then and see it could have been done so much better. I will have to work on updating that code.
I was reading somewhere the other day that one of the new trends for 2015 in web design is less fancy. Faster loading pages with less images and smaller headers. I like that. I have been going through some of the subpages of the site and replacing the chrome and footer with a much easier to maintain couple of php includes that are minimal compared to previous interation. One of the other items was to make the websites look more like apps with animation and while I have some css transitions going on, I have to invedtigate keyframe animation to get some new effects going on. I have also been trying to write my css to have global styles and page specific styles to reduce any duplicate code when possible. So watch for changes to the site in the next couple of weeks. Some new things I would like to do are redesign the Johnny Dressup interface to use cleaner javascript and a bouncy slider for the wardrobe so as time permits, that should look more professional.
Hey! Good to see the accordion css still works in 2015. I started writing some new code for a team building exercise at work and 10 minutes in and my event listeners stopped working. First 'Bad Code Day'™ of the new year!