The Lawrence Chan Blog

A new feature is added enabling you all to quote from the articles easily, making discussion more engaging.

To activate the feature, just highlight the text in any article, a quote button will popup allowing you to click that and the text will be clipped for you with all the necessary shortcode to go with it in your comment.

Update on issues with the site since upgrading to WP 3.5:

After several days of hard work, the issue with live commenting is resolved.

So real-time commentary should function properly with auto update and the quote button should show up properly at the places they are supposed to be.

The problem of updating the STOPD Levels is resolved as well.

Other minor visual issues are also taken care of.

Site is now ready for the new features I have planned.

Seriously, I am very happy that this major site upgrade has caused only minor issues so far. It makes me having even more respect to the programming team at WordPress.

To quote the WordPress.org slogan,

"Code Is Poetry"

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We’ve encountered some minor issues with uploading data after upgrading to the new WordPress 3.5.

My guy is working on it. Will keep you all posted.

All the premium reports are uploaded without any issues.

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I usually remote access to my server for my charting and checking on my automated systems regularly. Well, today the server failed to auto report its status thru SMS. I knew it is going to be bad. Just not this bad.

Looks like the hardware is toasted at this point. And the drive I manage to pull out of the computer got the infamous Windows $MFT corruption beyond repair. Luckily I know I can recover all the data files on the drive.

Told my SO that I have this f$#ked up situation.

"You get an excuse to buy the 8-core machine now, don’t you?"

Will just stop my models for now and wait for a new computer. No point rushing to setup a temporary gig for a week or two and then moving that onto a new server.

In the meantime, I am setting up my home computer to track the markets using a copy of the files from my backup. Will see how that goes.

This incident is giving me several ideas on tech tips for traders. Good for several pieces at least.

How do I know so quickly that the drive is beyond repair?

Test Disk – A free tool for fixing most of the known issues related to all kinds of OS and file formats. If it cannot fix the problem, it means it is either beyond repair or it is going to be very costly. i.e. you can always seek data recovery lab to help you, you know?

How do I know I can recover my data files from the driver?

Active@ Boot Disk – a set of recovery tools including imaging, bootable USD to deal with data backup and recovery. No relations with this firm. Just a satisfied customer.

Back to set up my charts and stuff now. Will be a long night.

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Am getting the site to upgrade to WordPress 3.5. Keeping my finger crossed!

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A very frustrated owner of my eBooks told me the sign up process for the membership to the site was broken. He could not complete his registration following the link from the registration email because that page is telling him to login first. It is really embarrassing that we failed to catch the issue when we upgraded our membership system to the latest release right after new year. 

I have resolved this new member’s problem manually myself.

It did not take long for us to track down the problem and have it fixed.

For those who tried to sign up over the past week, we have already resend a new registration completion email out. If you receive this new email, just follow the link and you should be able to complete your registration without problem.

I apologize for the frustration it has caused to those who tried to sign up over the past week.

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