WordPress 2.5 is out (and the WordPress site got a facelift), and I’ve already upgraded MaisonBisson using SVN. The changes are exciting, and seem to reflect a tradition that’s developing in WordPress of delivering some really revolutionary features in the x.5 release.
The loss of file-based object caching was a bit of a problem, as my [...]

Posted March 30, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: caching, concurrent editing protection, upgrade, wordpress, WordPress 2.5. 2 Comments.

ZDnet’s David Berlind complains that upgrades are painful:
Upgrading to new systems is one of the most painful things you can possibly do. If you’re a vendor of desktop/notebook systems, it also represents that point where you can keep or lose a customer. Today, most system vendors have pretty much nothing from a technology point [...]

Posted August 31, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: Apple Migration Assistant, competitive advantage, David Berlind, system upgrades, upgrade, upgrades. Be the first one.

I picked Plesk over CPanel as my server control panel because it was cheaper, looked better, and seemed to have all the features I wanted. What I didn’t know was that it came with PHP4 and MySQL3 at times when each was a major version ahead of that. When the good folks at my hosting [...]

Posted January 26, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: cpanel, hosted server, hosting provider, mysql, plesk, upgrade. 4 Comments.

Theme change not yet complete, but looking good. It’s a widened version of Clemens Orth’s Relaxation_3column, itself a derivitive of John Wrana’s two columned Relaxation theme. I found it on the WordPress Codex, and though it was among the first group I looked at, I dutifully clicked through to every other three-columned theme listed there.
Anyway, [...]

Posted May 31, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Warren. Tags: codex, derivitive, relaxation, theme, upgrade, wordpress. 3 Comments.