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Character Comments Jul 31, 2011 | Rei
Updated the Character Comments Presentation:

http://www.animecharactersdatabase.com/charactercomments.php

We had been using a DL DT DD style of comment I borrowed from TPB. In the end, it kinda sucked. Fun using a seldom used HTML 4.01 element tho.
books Jul 30, 2011 | Rei
Started work on the Guide Books project.

It's something fun and easy, but led off on a difficult tangent.

This is roughly the 500th time I've created an HTML table. And likely the 300th time I'll write handlers for FORM data. Seems like as good a time as any to analyze all of them, find the similarities, and write a dynamic generation application to cut down on the duplication.

So working on that...


Another memory usage update on the session server.
73375 rei 1 45 1 19112K 15596K accept 3 72:23 0.00% ss

It's nearing 20MB of allocated heap. Wonder when/where it'll hold. 27M to 30M might not be so bad.

I've also been optimizing various MySQL queries, correcting table definitions from back when I was still a Noob. Removing useless indexes, and adding crucial JOIN indexes. Plus completely rewriting some queries so they examine less data and execute more quickly.



mysql> explain SELECT COUNT(*) AS n FROM (SELECT author,COUNT(*) AS n FROM characters GROUP BY author) AS a WHERE n > 10;
+----+-------------+------------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+-------+---------------------------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+------------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+-------+---------------------------------+
| 1 | PRIMARY | | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 326 | Using where |
| 2 | DERIVED | characters | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 25895 | Using temporary; Using filesort |
+----+-------------+------------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+-------+---------------------------------+
2 rows in set (0.02 sec)

mysql> create index author on characters(author);
Query OK, 25895 rows affected (0.80 sec)
Records: 25895 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0

mysql> explain SELECT COUNT(*) AS n FROM (SELECT author,COUNT(*) AS n FROM characters GROUP BY author) AS a WHERE n > 10;
+----+-------------+------------+-------+---------------+--------+---------+------+-------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+------------+-------+---------------+--------+---------+------+-------+-------------+
| 1 | PRIMARY | | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 326 | Using where |
| 2 | DERIVED | characters | index | NULL | author | 4 | NULL | 25895 | Using index |
+----+-------------+------------+-------+---------------+--------+---------+------+-------+-------------+
2 rows in set (0.01 sec)

Hair Up Jul 28, 2011 | Rei
Added a new search trait, Hair Up.

Indexed roughly a hundred into it as well.


Also found a new type of SQL Injection on the site. Pretty nasty. It's a very complicated coding error, one I'm sure many other sites will be vulnerable to.

I may look over some old logs, see if anyone tried anything with it.

Having failed queries appear in the error log finally paid off though.



Kawaii or NOT?!

Anime Character
Geacht'er
RaioMaru found a Dragon Slayer Candidate Touko Yotsuya
Icould_bethereasonwhy joined
Airport found a Dragon Slayer Candidate Ayu Tsukimiya
Solovan wished Makoto Hyuga a Happy Birthday
Shinn_Yuu defeated a Dragon
Shinn_Yuu joined a Dragon Battle
Airport joined a Dragon Battle
DaZEROrk joined a Dragon Battle
Rosenne found a Dragon Slayer Candidate Fubuki Azuma
Jinto defeated a Dragon