Friday, February 19, 2010

… And Akismet Survived!

February 19, 2010 at 6:46 AM

in Services

Yesterday, while Javamancy and Javamancy mini were chugging happily away, servicing you, our kind readers, WordPress.com had apparently suffered a multi-hour system outage. One of the fine services that we use is Akismet, and according to the Akismet blog, it was unaffected by the recent WordPress.com system outage. This is obviously a Good Thing, since [...]

Ouchie! WordPress.com Outage

February 19, 2010 at 6:45 AM

in Services

Yesterday, while Javamancy and Javamancy mini were chugging happily away, servicing you, our kind readers, WordPress.com had apparently suffered a multi-hour system outage. According to Matt M., this unexpected downtime impacted about 10.2M (that’s millions!) blogs that are serviced by his WordPress.com service, including their VIP subscribers. Fortunately, it seems that WordPress.com is up and [...]

Apache Subversion

February 19, 2010 at 1:00 AM

in Management,Operations,Programming,Software

A scant couple of days ago, Subversion (the project) formally graduated from its incubation phase, becoming a full-fledged Apache project at subversion.apache.org. It seemed like almost yesterday that it had been accepted as a candidate by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)… In fact, it was in late 2009 that the proposal to join the ASF [...]