February 14, 2006
I’m interested to hear why exactly do people read Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger? Personally I read Scoble’s little rants just for entertainment value and comment there to try to make sense of what he posts as a lot of the time his posts leave you thinking “what the?” and scratching your head.
I think a lot of people actually read Scoble’s blog to stay on the cutting edge and to find out about all the new, cool stuff so they can keep up with the Jones’ and that just seems a little bit sad to me.
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Posted by jaseone
February 2, 2006
What has happened to the age old process of releasing software where the main stages are:
Alpha - Development use only, still not feature complete with any number of bugs
Beta - Feature complete & major bugs fixed
Preview Release - This is typically beta quality software released so people can get a preview of the new software
Release Candidate - feature complete and both major & minor bugs fixed with only obscure bugs left
It seems both sides of the software world, commercial/proprietary and open source are just releasing software willy nilly and not following any kind of pattern, take for example SimpleMachines 1.1, it was at RC1 for quite a long time and then RC2 comes out with significant new features included, did someone forget to tell them what Release Candidate is supposed to mean? Then we have Micosoft with Internet Explorer 7’s public beta that has had numerous significant bugs reported along with a suspected security hole already, I guess that wouldn’t be too bad but IE is so embedded in Windows you have to replace your current version of IE in order to try it and in doing so you are potentially affecting the whole Operating System bringing it down to beta level, that is just not good at all!
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Posted by jaseone
September 28, 2005
I provide support online in my own time in various places after working fulltime as a Senior Technical Consultant (Mainly for Java, Oracle and VB stuff) so I don’t have any financial problems and hence never think of actually accepting or asking for any payment for helping someone out as it actually makes me feel good helping people out and as corny as it sounds that is payment enough for me.
However I’m interested in finding out how many people do actually charge for such support? Like issues with a WordPress plugin or some layout fixes, that kind of thing.
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Posted by jaseone
September 24, 2005
Although Dreamhost is listed in the hosting section of WordPress.org the code base for WordPress MU is a different beast and has other requirements so unless you know PHP intimately then I suggest you don’t try to install WPMU at Dreamhost at this stage.
The same goes for any other host that runs PHP as CGI instead of an Apache module.
A good alternative is A Small Orange, I am not affiliated with them in anyway and that link isn’t even a referral link, I’m just a very satisfied customer and am happy to pimp them for free from time to time!
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Posted by jaseone
September 23, 2005
Not that I have any say in this at all but I’ve been wondering lately whether a decent amount of technical knowledge should be a pre-requisite for maintaining a WordPress MU site or not? Should anyone be able to install & setup WordPress MU?
I guess that should be an eventual goal of the project but I don’t think it is close to that goal, so at the moment I know it is harsh but unless you know what you are doing then WordPress MU isn’t for you just yet. For example if you don’t know what a .htacccess file is, how to create a MySQL Database or at least basic PHP then you are going to have a very steep learning curve with WPMU.
Hopefully it will be more user friendly going forward for admins but for now it is more usable for those that have a blog setup under WPMU and not for those maintaining WPMU itself.
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