Late projects
I was reminded of this via 37signals.
“How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.”
Fred Brooks, software engineer and computer scientist
I was reminded of this via 37signals.
“How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.”
Fred Brooks, software engineer and computer scientist
Good success with Audible recently.
I’m currently listening to “Seizing the Enigma” by David Kahn; I just finished “Defying Hitler” by Sebastien Haftner and also “Dare to Be a Daniel” by Tony Benn.
I’m really into historical non-fiction; I also really prefer the unabridged 10 hours of listening to the shorter abridged versions.
So I’m in San Francisco at the WordPress Community geek-fest that is WordCamp.
It’s kinda interesting – the usual [x]camp format; the usual 80/20 mix of hackers and non-hackers; the lack of power outlets…
There are a lot of people here who are using WordPress and want more – there is certainly a wave of demand that could see the whole community become a lot stronger.
Spent time in a session this morning on ‘Helping out WordPress’ – the number 1 request is ‘help with support’. I’ll get with a few people and see what can really be done.
After working with Ximian for three years – I’m really wary of reliance on the community; I know it’s active; but without clout nothing moves.
Oh – and I gave out a stack of openSUSE 10.1 DVDs – as well as the link to the running WordPress on openSUSE article that I threw together. I was branded a dreadful person from corporate land for that. The folks at WordCamp who got the openSUSE DVDs were happy though.
As promised here is the ‘HOW-TO’ for running WordPress on openSUSE.
This is a simple three step process:
– install and configure openSUSE
– configure apache and mysql
– install WordPress
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