by ezs | Aug 5, 2009 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
One thing I didn’t find in my testing and change control was a PHP and XML parsing bug.
Documented in several places – libxml2 2.7.x and greater have a known issue.
One workaround is to force in libxml2 version 2.6.x
Not the most glamorous fix – but opensuse.org has the old libraries from openSUSE 11.0
The better (but more complex) fix is to upgrade PHP to 5.2.9 and libxml2 to 2.7.3
opensuse.org has the correct pieces from openSUSE 11.1
http://www.peteware.com/blog/2009/01/fixing-libxml2-php-wordpress-and-the-missing-angle-brackets/
http://www.peteware.com/blog/2008/12/wordpress-libxml2-bug/
http://josephscott.org/archives/2008/12/problems-with-libxml2-for-wordpress-xml-rpc-users/
http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/03/conclusion-of-libxml2-issues-use-php-529-libxml2-273/
by ezs | Jun 11, 2009 | patching, Uncategorized, wordpress
Way back in the not-so-distant past the only way to update WordPress was to download (wget/ftp) updates, plugins and themes, unpack them and perform the update/install.
It is possible to pull the latest builds from subversion – but that’s really focused on the core hacker.
New in WP 2.7 was the ability to update automatically.
There were a few challenges with this – permissions, PHP modules, various host implementations – but I found it generally quite successful.
I found a great FAQ here – http://dd32.id.au/2009/02/20/wordpress-filesystem-abstraction-faq/
From the same author is a very cool plugin – core-control – it lets you enable and disable various transports – and shows the status of them.
by ezs | Jun 8, 2009 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I just noticed that I moved this blog to WordPress 1.5 some four years ago!
Prior to that I had several online things – including a static html status and news diary.
Here’s a post on this from April 2005 – my first online web page was in 1993!
by ezs | Jun 8, 2009 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
WordPress 2.8 RC1 is out – looking very good.
Also John Godfrey updated the audit-trail plugin.
by ezs | Jun 3, 2009 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
Never a dull moment watching Systems Management.
I remember talking with Ronni Colville from Gartner in early 2000 about how what was then known as “Enterprise Software Distribution” would always keep evolving – but would never really change.
Today the challenges are many – mobility, bandwidth, expectations of users, privacy, security, compliance – all tied into a real budget squeeze.
At the same time there is a continuing trend towards consolidation.
In the past week or so we have seen Configuresoft, Solidcore and most recently Cassatt be acquired.
My gut feeling – most of the virtualisation management, run-book automation and niche players will be gone by year end.
A wave of smaller ISVs are rising to replace them. I’ve met with some great new talent in this space – and just as I discussed with Ronni in 2000 – it’s still the same problem to solve.
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