Just upgraded WordPress to 2.5. My first impression is positive, the admin interface is a lot cleaner than before. Haven’t checked out everything yet since writing this post is literally the first thing I do after upgrading.

Upgrading is straight forward. This is what I’ve done.

1. Database backup
2. Files backup
3. Deleted old files
4. Uploaded new files
5. Ran supplied upgrade script
6. Uploaded backed up plugins and themes

As you see, easy. That’s one of the reasons WordPress is so popular. It just works.

I saw an ad on Coding Horror where the text said “Use CodePlex to find open source software projects built by thousands of developers around the world.”. CodePlex? Never heard of it so I clicked.

Apparently it’s “Microsoft’s open source project hosting web site”. Doh! How did I not know this site? Weird. Ok, I’m a Java dude so I don’t actively look for .NET project hosting sites but still. Happy I “found” it.

Given the date of the site’s first blog post* it looks like it has been under my radar for almost two years. An observation is that, that first blog post don’t have any real comments. As I write this there are five pingbacks, one from an Italian developer in 2006, one from an MSDN blog couple of days ago, and the remaining three pingbacks that are copies of the MSDN one. Those last three are interesting in their own way as they are PingBacks from non-MSDN blogs that mirrors MSDN blogs. Clearly MFA sites(Made For Adsense).

*Ok ok, the first blog post doesn’t mean the site was launched then. A check shows that the first non-test project was added somewhere around Apr 28 2006 at 10:53 PM. Saved you some time now didn’t I?

Believe it or not but one of the more popular posts on this blog is the one with the gingerbread Star Destroyer. No wonder that it’s popular. Who doesn’t like Star Wars? Who doesn’t like gingerbread? It’s a killer combo.

Gingerbread is very Christmas, but hey a Star Destroyer never goes out of season.

As an extra treat to all Star Wars fans, here’s a site tip on that topic.

Feels good to know.

…had almost forgot. I also hadn’t read my usual round of daily reads for a while, so today I did. Paul writes some interesting stuff every now and then but I was surprised to see this post today.

If you don’t have the energy to read through it I’ll round it up for you. He basically found a web site that didn’t conform to his high standards. Hello!? First time? If I go so upset whenever I found a useless website that I had to write about it I would have little time left for other things. Oh well, I guess that’s always something to write about and everyone’s got a right to an opinion. And when I think about it, everyone with an opinion should write a blog post about it, really, why not. That’s one of the reasons that makes it fun to read blogs, personal stuff, the kind of stuff you don’t see here very often(because you don’t see anything here often, or even rarely).

I’m having a hard time lowering my standards. It’s all in my head anyway, so you won’t notice if I do. There’s nothing to compare to. But this post wasn’t very good was it? I certainly don’t hope so, I’m just adding a few more bytes to the interweb, something for Google to chew on. There you go, you’re welcome.