Lost a year of blog posts - but recovered

November 16, 2008 at 12:04 am · Filed under Uncategorized

Some months ago I realized that my blog posts from May 13, 2007 to May 4, 2008 was gone!! Although I haven't been the most active blogger (it was only 15 posts) it was frustrating. Especially because some of them concerned my graduation as master of science, that our thesis won a thesis-of-the-year prize and that the media covered the topic.

Okay, so why did I loose the blog posts anyway? Because the company hosting my blog and database (www.web10.dk) lost all data and their backup server was out of order!!! Great with cheap hosting :-)

There was no way I could get the orginal data back from the database, so I tried googling with site:blog.decorus.dk and hoped they got cached versions of the blog posts (I also tried other search engines). No luck - I think I realized they were missing too late. Googlebot had already been there before and found that the URLs were gone. There were no signs of my blog posts on the web!

Today I visited my Google Reader account by a coincidence (I don't actually use it). What a pleasant surprise!! Apparently I had created a subsription to my own feed just to test Google Reader when I created the account. All my missing blog posts were right there with original dates, categories and so on. Cool!  

Now I just had to recreate the posts in my blog software. I didn't want to do it manually (copy-paste text and so on). I shared the items in Google Reader which caused an Atom feed to be published. Now the plan was to import this feed into Wordpress, but the import tool only accepted RSS files. I found a tool - atom2rss - to convert the feed and within minutes my original posts were recovered.

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Fatherly Advice To New Programmers

September 23, 2006 at 2:48 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

In this blog post Chuck Jazdzewski gives some fatherly advice to new programmers. It doesn't look like any of his children will become programmers. Instead of letting his fatherly advice go to waste, he gives the advice to all of us. Even though it's not rocket science I think it's some pretty simple and good guidelines. If my son ever decides to be a programmer I will remember to pass on the advice. But it's too early to say as he is only seven weeks old by now :-)

Chuck summarizes the blog post by these six statements that you as (new) programmer should try to remember:

- Never stop learning.
- Communication is critical.
- Under promise, over deliver.
- "I was wrong."
- If it is not tested it doesn't work.
- Programming isn't your job, shipping is. 

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Just started blogging

July 16, 2006 at 4:34 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

Finally started blogging…. Don’t expect too much though! I hope to write something here once in a while about software and web development, my studies at ITU, my personal life and family.

N.B. Some of this blog will be in Danish and some in English due to different target audience.

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