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What is it?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Blammo is a CGI news updating system, written to supersede CGINews (See below). Originally designed as a freeware news script to assist site owners, and written to be as versatile as possible, but the response from Blue’s News was so encouraging that it gradually became more and more specific to the site’s needs, and the exclusive rights were purchased by Blue’s News in February 1999.<\/p>\n Details<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Version 1 proved to be extremely bloated and badly optimised in both its SQL queries and code, and as the Blue’s News database grew, the optimisation became more and more of a problem. In September 2001 it was decided to rewrite the script from the ground up. The rewrite took a few days to develop and test, and it provided a much needed speed gain, with less SQL queries used and the tables re-optimised and indexed, not to mention a rediculous decrease in code size due to the replacement of the existing administration routines with a separate global administration script handling all tables on Blue’s News, utilising DBIx::GlueHTML (see below). Further functionality was added in this rewrite, the full feature list is as follows:<\/p>\n The whole system runs under mod_perl and makes use of the memory caching afforded by mod_perl to optimise speed, for example in a child process the HTML layout is loaded from the database only once and then is cached in memory.<\/p>\n\n
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