Apology to my Twitter and identi.ca Followers
This is a quick post to apology all of my Twitter and identi.ca followers for receiving unwanted spam updates from my account.
Because I didn’t login to my social accounts for a long time, I’m surprised to see that there are lots of spam updates in both accounts. All of these updates came from my long-forgotten Tumblr account. It clearly shows that someone has hacked to my Tumblr account.
I disconnected Twitter from the Tumblr account as well as deleted my ping.fm account for posting to identi.ca. For the security measure, I also changed my Tumblr password and closed this account for good.
From this accident I learned that never link the social network accounts to any third-party apps, because you never know when these third-party accounts gets hacked and ruin your social network accounts updates.
Played Around with Drupal, Upcoming Site Update, and more …
I hadn’t write any blog post since last Thursday. The reason is because I had been playing around with Drupal. Drupal is a Content Management System that is similar to WordPress, in my experience, because it can install additional plugins as modules, custom themes, and add pages. However, Drupal has few other features that need to be configured externally if using WordPress, such as the ability to optimize the performance of the site by enabling compression. Perhaps I used WordPress for long time and don’t know how to use Drupal yet, I have not discovered any usefulness of Drupal over WordPress yet. I will continue to learn more about Drupal and improve my Drupal site at diary.robbychen.com. As you can see through the URL, I originally planed to start another diary blog using a CMS app and change the daily post schedule for this blog to irregular post schedule just like my Tumblr-based blog. I decided first to try Drupal because I tried Joomla before and I can’t seem to use it. I think I will try other CMS if Drupal also won’t work for me.
I also plan to update my main site robbychen.com beginning tomorrow since the spring semester is over. I decided to make this site as a portfolio site that include all the programming works that I have done in the past instead of a tutorial site because this domain name is based on my name and it doesn’t suited for a tutorial website or a commercial website. The current layout on the site is based on a commercial website. I will try to create my own site layout and I have decided to apply the color theme of the site based on the new Ubuntu Radiance theme.
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The ColdFusion to PHP project that I was promised back in January is not possible anymore because I couldn’t find the CA 278 files and can’t convert to PHP without these files. However, I’m organizing the CA 288 class files which is advanced ColdFusion programming. I will rewrote them with PHP as soon as the maintenance of these files is completed.
My New Mini-blog (Updated)
(UPDATE 06/28/10) I’m closing down the mini-blog because it gives me a huge productivity lag by posting the same content onto that blog and Twitter/identica. Tumblr will automatically post the new articles to Twitter and Facebook, but not to identica. Please follow me on Twitter, Identica, and/or Facebook instead.
My new blog, mblog.robbychen.com, is a Tumblr powered blog. My goal of new blog is to post links, quotes, and videos I found around the web that are related to GNU/Linux and web development, as it corresponds to this blog. In fact, I created this Tumblr account long before this WordPress-based blog was created. At that time, I had no idea what to post to the blog since I didn’t have any specific topic. I remembered this account that I had been forgotten long ago when I stumbled across this article. It basically states that Tumblr could replace Twitter. I decided to reuse my Tumblr blog as a mini (alternative) blog to this blog. Because this mini blog is hosted directly at Tumblr, I had to change the DNS settings of mblog.robbychen.com to the specified Tumblr IP. I hope to have a backup feature on Tumblr to allow me to backup my blog content. The mini blog right now has only one post titled First Post. It describes the purpose of the blog. I will post new posts often when I come across interesting articles as well as on my Twitter and Identi.ca accounts.