Here’s a nice post by Jane Wells (yes, the one of WordPress fame) about the requirements for WordPress 3.2 and some rationale about the system changes being implemented for the latest version of the blogging software. The big news is actually not that big: the version of Oracle’s [ORCL] MySQL database and the PHP engine [...]
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If you have been following along about the upcoming PHP and MySQL upgrade requirements for WordPress, you may have wondered, “Hey, is my WordPress site ready for the upgrade?” There is a way to tell (more-or-less conveniently): try the Health Check plugin for WordPress. While the description for the plugin declares that there will be [...]
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As many of you know, WordPress depends upon a variety of software packages to do the things that it does, as a weblog product (and some of you have extended it even further…). Two of these things are foundational items: PHP, the language and operational runtime for WordPress, and MySQL, the persistence datastore that WordPress [...]
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Jeff Chandler, at the Weblog Tools Collection blog, posts that WordPress 2.9.1 beta version will be available shortly to address a WordPress core bug in the 2.9 version. While undoubtedly version 2.9.1 will include additional bug fixes, there is a bug fix reported in WordPress’ Trac issue tracker: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/11505/ticket-11505-full.patch So those of you who wish [...]
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By now, gentle readers, you have probably seen the Javamancy mini post about the one-liner deletion for .svn files. I really like Adam Bien. He seems like a nice guy, and I occasionally drop by his blog, on a lark, to read his stuff, which is often focused on Java and NetBeans, one of our [...]
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The Setup “What should you do when that Ol’ Tester Magic grabs a hold of you?” Dunno. But what you can do is sit around at a nearby coffeehouse, drink your coffee, finish your coffee, get a refill and drink that one, and then declare to all the other crazies sitting around you that you’re [...]
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It’s been awhile in coming, but it’s finally here: NetBeans 6.5. Like many of you, I’ve been itching to have a plethora of development capabilities integrated into a single unified interface that does not require me to constantly scour the Internet, or several different vendors’ sites, or even just constantly ping around various different “repositories”, [...]
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