root log: March 2013

Downtime is coming! Well, at least a few hours of it, probably this weekend. I am putting the finishing touches on a very finicky and complicated operation to translate all of the database tables to utf8. This is something that has taken me all month because it's rather dangerous, and there's a huge possibility to mucking it up. The upside here is that when it is set, we'll be able to store non-latin characters in one-true-encoding. I'll announce the downtime a bit closer to the actual event, after I run everything through the appropriate level of neurotic sanity checking
Part of the results of this is checking to see whether or not certain things got truncated along the way. One thing I did find is that there are certain node titles in production that are blank. Seriously blank. node_forwards, debatecomments, tickets a few others. Cleaning those out or retitling as appropriate, but there are 86 of them to go.
Part of this retitling means that a lot of drafts that don't have titles are getting renamed to "(untitled draft)"

Tracked down a completely awful infinite loop in the display code that pegs the database if a particular node isn't found. This happens when there exists a displaytype for a particular type of node that you can't derive down to "node" for that displaytype
The DOS bug does not affect perlmonks. Moving on with my day