*} CodeBloke

Good Morning,

I started the blog yesterday and created two entries. Then yesterday, late afternoon I came back to change something and a ‘funny’ system message appeared.

This is screenshot:

You see, 5 minutes is not a big problem, but after 5 minutes nothing really happened…

What is even more bizarre is the fact that the update was actually successful, only the date was somehow cleared (wordpress.com keeps the date as integer value) and we were back in the 1970.

Cool! I wish it was that easy to do…

but it’s not.

Conclusion:

To the guys at the Development Team of wordpress.com… Please, if you store the ‘last_update’ timestamps as integer values, don’t zero them during ‘transaction’ if you’re not sure if it will be successfully finished (commited).

Plus. There is a number of simple tricks to prevent users from re-posting forms. Displaying messages to “not use back” is stupid. People use browser’s BACK button and always will do…