Excessive downtime? Nov 28 2005

So the blog was down since Friday night, through to this evening. This was because I rather cunningly decided to upgrade the version of Mono on the box from 1.1.8.3 which it was running, to the latest version, 1.1.10. I wanted the latest ASP.Net improvements (added in 1.1.9 I think?) along with the new AutoConfiguration feature to make setting up apps a bit easier. Unfortunately in all the excitement, it slipped my mind to test my blogging software using 1.1.10 on one of my test machines here. No matter, after fixing the ‘conflicts’ between some of my code and the latest version, it’s back up and running. I also took this chance to alter the design slightly, in the hope of making the app a bit faster. 1.1.10 does seem a lot smoother anyway, and the new ASP.Net code seems a lot better :-) Also I got a test web app written using the 2.0 profile, compiling on-the-fly and running under the new version of Mono here! So all in all, a worthwhile upgrade ;-)

Anyway, I would have had the problem fixed sooner, but I’ve spent a really enjoyable weekend with my girlfriend doing pretty much nothing, really relaxing. Every time I sat down at the computer, I couldn’t be bothered to stay there for very long - just about long enough to catch up on news, e-mails etc. This evening I decided to stick at it and fix the issue, and voila, the blog is back!