Brian Guan's blog

We Got SPAMed!

Brian Guan — Sun, 13 May 2007 00:48:59 -0500

Apologies to all. Due to my move from SF to Mountain View, I transfered the site from my garage to a real hosting provider and I guess due to the increase in bandwidth, spammers found us!

Again due to the move, I haven't had much time to monitor the site and only just discovered that we have many spam content and comments added during my absence.

I have tightened user registration to require administrator approval and hopefully this will cut back on spams.

Sorry for any inconvenience or offense.

Silkreeler Moved to Siteground!

Brian Guan — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:40:22 -0500

Me, the Web Master (or more appropriately the Web Slave) is moving to Mountain View with my whole family. Being a cheap guy, I have decided not to subscribe to a broadband service and I will give Google's free city wide Wifi in Mountain View a try... However, this means I can't really host the server from home like I used to.

So silkreeler needs a new home.

After a little investigation, I selected Siteground as the new hosting provider - and they are Good! Cost effective too!

They transfered the site and helped me trouble shoot some config issues quickly and I must say I am impressed - so far :-)

Photos of Beijing Conference on other sites...

Brian Guan — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:11:12 -0600

More people/sites are posting their photos of Beijing Conference online... check out these links:

Anna's site
Japan
...

I am still in the middle of sorting our 1000's of pictures (excuses... excuses...)

Life of a part time web master

Brian Guan — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:31:09 -0600

OK, after googling whenever I have time, finally tracked the problem to apache limiting maximum upload filesize. I had to edit the hidden file .htaccess for drupal to instruct Apache to let large uploads thru:

<Files *.php>
 LimitRequestBody 8388608
 RequestHeader unset If-Modified-Since
 </Files>

Now image upload is working again!

Back From First International Hunyuan Conference Beijing - House Not In Order

Brian Guan — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:38:50 -0600

Drupal Image Gallery IS BROKEN?

This is ridiculous!

I have a stressful tech job with a rapidly growing dot com, I have a young family with 2 very energetic boys (see our site), I have a neglected personal Taiji practice, I just got back from Beijing leading a group of over 15 helpless non Chinese speaking gringos (and Master Zhang wasn't there as he was sick and hospitalized), I am nursing a bad cold, and I have to maintain this website... and now I can't figure out why drupal wouldn't allow me to upload images to galleries?

Silkreeler Face Lift - or rather, Re-Incarnation!

Brian Guan — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:16:38 -0500

After almost 8 years of using a statically maintained web site, I finally got my act together to move the site over to a full blown content management system - Drupal.

Eventhough it is a relatively vanilla implementation of Drupal, let me tell ya - this is extremely labor intensive! Elbow breaking work... So far I have migrated most of the content from the old site over, but I have yet to complete the migration of photos yet. Please be patient.

Please let me know what you think.

Thanks.