Further to my previous post about FreeTDS for PHP on windows, I’ve just come across a new microsoft PHP 5 extension that apparently provides compatibility with the latest versions of MSSQL (including the 2008 pre-releases).

I’m yet to check it out, but it looks promising: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=61bf87e0-d031-466b-b09a-6597c21a2e2a&DisplayLang=en

Well, I guess I was one of many wordpress victims that have suffered from an unscrupulous blog spamming bot.

Unfortunately I didn’t keep backups of my posts.  It’s strange, you don’t really count these sorts of things as important and therefore it was overlooked with my normal backups.  Thankfully, I was saved by the Way Back Machine, which had a copy of my Jasper post which was destroyed.

Google is currently in the process of removing me off their blacklist.  Apparently it can take a bit of time.

A few reasons for the lack of posts and generally not being around.  Firstly I went through Europe, and caught up with Nick, Haley, Havard and Alex, which was awesome.  Secondly, I have been completely swamped at work and it is a little difficult to be geeky at home when you have had a rather full-on day.

Hopefully this need to update my blog will prompt a bit of a resurgence in posting.