Stan-four-d at Tsinghua
In the summer of 2006, I with three other Stanford students went abroad to China as a part of a pilot exchange program between Stanford's and Tsinghua's Schools of Engineering. The group thought it'd be neat to have our own web log of the experiences. As the web “expert” in the group, I created my own blog engine as a way to practice PHP for the second time (my first time was building a calendar for Stanford Table Tennis Club). Not knowing MySQL at the time, I based the content management system completely on the filesystem.
Over the duration of the trip, I made bug-fixes and added a “wall” feature for comments. Months after the program, I checked back and noticed that the wall was deluged by SPAM. At the same time, I was running out of webspace, so I took down the site, removed the SPAM, and archived it.
After disabling wall-posts, I put the site up again at its original location.