October updates

A round-up of changes to the site since June

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Stop thief

I’ve recently been playing around with some code to prevent hotlinking of the images on the site.

Hotlinking is when a page in one website displays an image served from another website.

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February updates

Just a quick round up of some of the changes to the site that I’ve been working on over the last couple of weeks:

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Advertising

The abc website has carried Google “adsense” adverts for a while now – they help to pay for the web hosting, amongst other things. However, they are not always very relevant to the site.

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Feed me

Another brief update – some time ago someone suggested that the forums had an RSS / Atom feed so that users can keep up to date with new posts without having actually having to visit the forums.

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You what?

One of the joys of running a website is discovering all the different ways people find of trying to subvert it.

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Top of the pops

I’ve been amusing myself over the Christmas period by writing a bit of code that works out the top ten tune pages visited and searches made recently.

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Merry Christmas

Well, it’s been some time since I last blogged – nearly three months. Eek!

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Metallica

Anyone who has visited the abc tune search more than once since the site was launched (just over a week ago) may have noticed the gradual evolution of the paragraph above the search box.

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Site now launched

Well, it was a hard slog, but I finally got the new site launched.

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