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WordPress dogfooding

Testing WordPress 2.6 beta 1 on the this blog.

Upgrade worked well; no major issues so far.

One point to note – publishing via XML-RPC (i.e using a blogging client such as Windows Live Writer) is disabled by default. You have to turn it on.

SNAG-2026

If you don’t then WLW throws an error:

Server Error –32601 Occurred server error. requested method blogger.getUsersBlogs does not exist

SNAG-2027

On the bus again

I’m taking the Connector bus again to work. An earlier start to set up for todays meetings; but it’s still a lot easier than the commute.

On another green note – composting starts today in my building. All of the cups, plates etc are moving to compostable paper from polystyrene. Good news.

Software releases – time vs. quality

I’ve just started using Topo Explorer – and to be honest it’s one of the most bug-ridden pieces of code I’ve seen in a long time.

It looks evident that a ‘date for ship’ was set; product out of the door regardless of quality, feature completeness or usability.

I’ve been logging issues in the forum; issues include high CPU and RAM utilisation; corrupted profiles; IE errors – and lots and lots of half-finished usability features.

More concerning is that the username and password for the Topo web service are stored in clear text in an xml doc in the local profile. This user name and password are tied to the users email address, contact details and most importantly credits and purchase history for the Topo Super Quad maps. Very poor.

Blogging on TechNet

More blogs on TechNet – mainly around the new Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 and the start of my introductions to the System Center Alliance.

I’m in the same position now as when blogging at Novell – which blog gets the updates…

I’m probably going to post work specific at the TechNet site and bring an extract into this blog. Any thoughts on that?

I’ve still got a lot of blogs in the hopper. Here’s the top of the list so far:

  • building a single server Configuration Manager box for demo and developer test
  • specifically the SP1 install on 2008 Server
  • developer interfaces to System Center
    • Configuration Manager SDK
    • Operations Manager Management Packs
    • OS Deployment integration
    • Powershell is king!

    That will probably keep me busy in the next six weeks!