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Broken items on the site
Some things on this site haven't been working as they should. For instance, search was broken on the homepage and blog entries, the photo galleriesdidn't work beyond the first page and comments have been disabled (again) for some time.
Most of this was cause by the upgrade of the content management software, except the comments and the "Contact Us" form. Normally I would prepare a software upgrade very carefully. However, the site was targeted by some filthy spammers, leaving thousands of spam messages in the blog comments and driving me nuts with bogus contact requests.
The new version of the CMS software; SilverStripe 2.3, has support for Mollom. Mollom is a spamfilter for websites. It rejects spam messages of asks for a Captcha confirmation when in doubt. Exactly what I needed. So I rushed the upgrade and caused some damage. Happily to say, as far as I know everything has been fixed.
I also had to update the External Authentication module which I wrote for SilverStripe. Version 0.3 will work happily with SilverStripe 2.3 and has some other improvements as well. At the moment I would use the version from trunk though. Some helpful users found some bugs, which are fixed in the repository. Version 0.3.1 is imminent.
