Dusting Off The Cobwebs

A few days ago, I asked for access to the IPhi web­site again because I had been talk­ing with some peo­ple and felt moti­vated to do some updates.

My first stab at things was an exten­sion for the wiki to auto­mat­i­cally link com­mon arti­cles, but it did not go as planned. I man­aged to fix things, but it really showed me how rusty my cod­ing skills have gotten.

After ser­vice on Sat­ur­day, I went to sleep for about 18 hours, not includ­ing Day­light Sav­ings, and woke up to find that the IPhi web­site was down. My first thought was that I had acci­den­tally done some­thing to the web­site, since I keep my key­board and mouse on the bed and often fall asleep on or near them. Sleep-​hacking?! It’s pos­si­ble; stranger things have happened.

Any­way, found out it was an exter­nal attack and con­sulted with the web­mas­ters on a game plan. Took a stab at a fix, but again, I was too unfa­mil­iar with things to actu­ally fix anything.

Some­times, I wish I had stuck with CSE. Can’t wait to get home and try again, though. Oh, and good job to the guys who actu­ally got things work­ing again.

Tags: Work