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Category Archives: Technology

Observations on the lack of art in technology today

Oh, Joy

Filed under: General,Technology— arlen@ 12:04 pm

Upgraded mySQL to 5.x this weekend. Wasn’t paying attention when I did so, and nailed all my development databases along the way. Not to mention the new password hash making a hash of things as well. Another very good reason not to upgrade when you’re overtired. Sigh. My development disc is overcrowded. I need to […]

And one more bump

Filed under: General,Technology— arlen@ 7:44 pm

The drupal sql file for postgresql ran into two fatal bugs. One with “alter sequence” and another with “anyelement”. Possibly this is a hosting issue, because I only have access to 7.3.10 on my host and drupal says 7.4, but I suspect there’s even more trouble ahead, so this experiment is officially over. I had […]

Oh, brother!

Filed under: General,Technology— arlen@ 8:54 am

Oops, I Did It Again

Filed under: General,Technology,Web Design— arlen@ 11:57 am

Released some software, that is. Haven’t done it for a couple of decades, and this time I used the GPL rather than my old “Baen Convention” tag. (Yes, that’s not a typo for “Berne Convention.” I christened it in honor of the grand fellow I stole it from, Jim Baen, the SF editor. While editor […]

A Brew-Up in the OSCMS Arena

Filed under: General,Technology,Web Design— arlen@ 1:43 pm

Those who have paid attention to me for a while (and I thank both of you) know my opinion of the Content Management System segment, commercial or open source. While nothing is excellent, or even good, for that matter, I did have hopes of one open source project, in particular, growing up to be something […]

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