Category: Site

Anything to do with the website…Whether it’s about this site or other sites that I am working on!

  • Padraig Fahy.com Stats for Nov/Dec 2013

    I thought I would give you all a update on stats collected by Google Analytics comparing November to December of 2013.

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    +14.1% Visitor Increase
    +12.8% Unique Visitors
    +42.9% Pageviews

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  • 2014, PFN, nologam

    Happy New Year everyone.

    This is a quick post on what is happening with PFN (Padraig Fahy Network) and what is going to be happening with it.

    We are having some slight changes. Over the next while, we will be saying a farewell to one site that I have tried to get up and running, Gamers and Geeks. It was a hard decision, but it is one that needed to be done in order to be “professional”.

    My love for technology and gaming hasn’t gone away and that is why it will be replaced by “nologam”.

    nologam (Technology, Gaming) is a peculiar, but interesting name, but the focus of it is, the community. The community creating the content. Not just from staff members, but from everyone.

    We are also going to have sections to talk about hacking, cyrpto-currencies, modding (gaming) and a whole load more.

    I am launching it sometime early 2014 and hopefully you are interested.

    I have written a blog post about the workflow of nologam, and I would encourage you to please check it out and leave feedback on twitter @nologam or email hello@nologam.com with suggestions, improvements etc to our workflow!

    There is a lot more that I could talk about, but I would just be rambling!

  • Padoreigufeihyi

    No, I didn’t faceroll my keyboard after typing the first three letters of my name…

    This is actually my Japanese name! Now, unfortunately, Google Translate can’t translate “Fahy” but it can translate “Fahey” no problem. [Surprisingly, it can translate “Padraig” without any modification].

    I got the inspiration from Danny Choo’s blog Culture Japan, where he has the name of his site in English and in Japanese.

    Thought it looked pretty cool up there 😛

  • Oh god…I love child themes!

    When I did the first iterations of PadraigFahy.com back in 2012, I just edited the default theme files and then re-apply the changes whenever WordPress would update the them.

    So, whenever TwentyThirteen came out, I decided to create a child theme and this makes it A LOT easier to do changes.

    Sooo….Version 1.2 of the “2013-padraig” theme is out and the one and only change is:

    • Changed main fonts to “Ubuntu”

    😀

  • PFN Update 11th October 2013

    Hey everyone. It has been a bit since I have done a proper blog and I thought I would let you all know what has been happening at PFN.

    We have moved PadraigFahy.com, GamersAndGeeks.net and Fahy.eu to Chocobo. Chocobo is the nickname for the new dedicated server that I have which now gives me even more flexibility to do what I want.

    Gamers and Geeks has undergone a re-branding.

    From:

    Gamers and Geeks January 2013 Logo
    Gamers and Geeks logo (January – October 2013)

    To:

    Gamers and Geeks October 2013 Logo
    Present Gamers and Geeks logo (October 2013 – Present)

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    Updates of Gamers and Geeks are made over on the forums and a detailed post about specific changes will be going up soon on it.

    As for PadraigFahy.com, nothing much has changed since the August Update (whenever TwentyThirteen) was released. You may have noticed that the PF logo is Orange (At the time of writing), but this is just a ‘event’ logo since it is nearly Hallowe’en, but it will of course change back to the blue-logo for November (and then December is HoHoHo month (Can’t bloody wait(!)))

    We had some teething issues with MySQL and WordPress and vBulletin when we moved to Chocobo.

    One night, I got about 20 emails from vBulletin telling me that there was a database error and that there was something about space being full. Rightfully so, when I logged into SSH, the first thing I see is.

    “/ is 99% of 19.8GB”. This meant that the / (root) partitions on the drive filled. I couldn’t figure out how to fix it, and it clicked with me at about 3pm, that the backups that was setup by a friend was going to the root partiton and thus was creating that issue. So, for now, we have moved the backups to a protected folder in the /home/ partition and symlinked the backup folder to go to it, so we don’t have to mess with the script.

    Since MySQL crashed, it corrupted most of the tables and the built in tools on vBulletin to repair and optimise tables didn’t work, so I had to manually use a command to repair and fix all the tables that were affected. Luckily nothing here on WordPress was affected which is always a good thing.

    So, after a good few hours of fixing everything up, I got it back up and running again and have been keeping a close eye on it.

    As for WordPress though, when I moved the site over, it didn’t want to upload any pictures. Hmm…sounds like a issue that I had before.

    With some permissions picking, I finally got it sorted last night, and the pictures do seem to be working as intended and thus I have no more problems.

    I am no means a web developer (Although, I would love to be one), but I do try and learn how to fix stuff and I would like to use languages such as JavaScript and PHP and manually add my own content to stuff like WordPress and vBulletin.

    Righteo, I have rambled enough about PFN for now. Should hopefully have a gaming update later on all going good.

    Email: padraig@padraigfahy.com

  • PadraigFahy.com Maintenance at 8pm Tonight

    Maintenance done. If you see this…Then you are on the new server. Enjoy 🙂