Jeremy Visser

Ahhh…WordPress 2.0.4 is finally stable and released. What’s really exciting about this release to me is that it’s got my Snoopy fix in it! Rejoice all troubled WP-SlimStat users!

Google has launched project hosting on Google Code. It’s similar to SourceForge, but Google Code only offers SVN access. They also said they’re not intending to compete with SourceForge.

I’ve always been hesitant of opening a project on SourceForge. From all the stories I’ve heard about the downtime and the fact that the site is not very user-friendly I’ve never ended up opening a project there.

With the launch of the project hosting on Google, I signed up in less than 5 minutes of looking at the site! I’ve now got my guestbook hosted there.

At this time of writing I haven’t yet uploaded any file to it because I’m planning to do it in a few “milestones” so I can preserve the major points of history on my own repository. But I am sure to start using it as soon as possible! You can browse and checkout the source now!

One disadvantage of the hosting is that they don’t give the opportunity to upload packages or binary files but they’ve said they’ll add the functionality soon. I can’t wait!

Today’s my Wikibirthday — one year of contributing to Wikipedia!

I can always hope for a nice birthday balloon in my talk page but I doubt anyone notices me on Wikipedia!

Seemingly coincidentally, it’s Jillian’s (real) birthday today as well! Happy Birthday to all!

Note to self: next time you compile a program on Linux, use CheckInstall.

The bane of my life is doing a make install on a downloaded program in Linux and never being able to uninstall it. The main reason I compile stuff is so I can get the bleeding-edge software, but after a while the bugs get on my nerves and I want the stable version back. The trouble is that there’s no such thing as make uninstall.

This program will perform something similar to “SetupCapture” on the WISE Installer in that it will run make install and track the changes that take place during the install. From the tracked changes it will then create an rpm, Slackware package or a deb.

Yay! The problem I reported on the WordPress Trac has now been fixed in both the trunk and 2.0 branch (for 2.0.4)!

I guess because 2.0.4 is coming up to beta status Ryan is going through all the open bugs and making sure they’re fixed. Maybe it’s vain to say so but I’m really excited because now I’m officially a contributor to WordPress!