Apologies and Agendas
You will have noticed by now that the Polit website is down. Del (the sca.org.au server owner) mentioned a while back that he’d be upgrading the servers to use a new version of PHP, so I researched the particular functions that my sites use and thought it wouldn’t be a problem. Unfortunately, one of the function libraries that the Polit site relies on was made optional between the old and new versions of the underlying server software, and it didn’t occur to me that Del wouldn’t install it as a matter of course. As a bonus, some weirdnesses in my own computer’s setup made it impossible for me to perform the same upgrade until just last weekend, so I couldn’t test my assumptions even if I’d known I had to. Sigh. I am currently rewriting the part of the site that needs to change. I hope to have it working before the end of this coming week, family and work permitting.