Tag Archive for 'blogging'

software depencies

First the good thing: I updated wordpress to 2.3. Now the bad thing: I updated wordpress to 2.3.

With 2.3 there where many infrastructure changes. For a complete list, see the Release Announcement. The most extensions breaking change was the implementation of native tag support. Referencing to Not working Plugin List Ultimate Tag Warrior and Extended Live Archives are problematic. Both caused troubles on update, but there is a fix for ELA and one for UTW. By reviewing the informations for writing this articel, I noticed that I’m running fine with the Ultimate Tag Warrior Bugfix Release provided by Christine from the Internet.
My theme K2 was needing also an update, which caused the style to be broken. So waiting for a fix did take little longer, but when reviewing it, I noticed that only a css class name did need an update.
This all teaches me, when using a project with much depencies, it will be a mess when updating, as long as isn’t all provided by one source. It’s some kind of using a project “still in development”.
Update: While we are at “still in development” .. I updated to 2.3.1-RC1 some seconds ago. :)

performancing.com and privacy

Today I was crawling through my mail logs for various reasons.
I was really surprised, that I saw a mail to a dedicated mailaddress which I’m using for communication with performancing.com. I was short checking, if this mailaddress is anywhere published at performancing.com, but couldn’t find anything.

A one liner over the last week of mail logs:

# zgrep performancing /var/log/mail.info* | grep clam | wc -l
26

For a address only used for communicating with one organisation (used as contact mail address) this seems a bit too much traffic and this are only the mails, which was accepted by the MTA. So the questions comes to my mind …. what happens with the addresses at performancing.com? Maybe I missed something?