Month: August 2011

Day in brief – 2011-08-29

  • @lufandever Я спиной к Зену сидел. :) Отлично там кстати. Я первый раз был, мне понравилось. Особенно кальяны. Citrus Mix. :) #
  • Shared: nginx as protection against DDoS to Apache http://t.co/PyEg0jn #
  • G+: If you don't have any plans, there will be a PHP conference in Manchester, http://t.co/qGDxiCg #
  • I favorited a @YouTube video http://t.co/o0yANhq Kilian Martin: A Skate Illustration #

One more thing

Last year Matt Mullenweg wrote this post and I somehow missed it.

There is a dark time in WordPress development history, a lost year. Version 2.0 was released on December 31st, 2005, and version 2.1 came out on January 22nd, 2007. Now just from the dates, you might imagine that perhaps we had some sort of rift in the open source community, that all the volunteers left or that perhaps WordPress just slowed down. In fact it was just the opposite, 2006 was a breakthrough year for WP in many ways: WP was downloaded 1.5 million times that year, and we were starting to get some high-profile blogs switching over. The growing prominence had attracted scores of new developers to the project and we were committing new functionality and fixes faster than we ever had before.

What killed us was “one more thing.” We could have easily done three major releases that year if we had drawn a line in the sand, said “finished,” and shipped the darn thing. The problem is that the longer it’s been since your last release the more pressure and anticipation there is, so you’re more likely to try to slip in just one more thing or a fix that will make a feature really shine. For some projects, this literally goes on forever.

Day in brief – 2011-08-27

Ayia Napa is on fire … not literally of course

Cyprus Mail reports that Ayia Napa enjoys the best tourism year in the last 10 years.

A MASSIVE increase in tourism from Russia, more bookings from Britain and instability in the Middle East have helped kick-start a tourism boom in Ayia Napa which is being lauded as the best year in a decade.

It was announced yesterday that hotel occupancy in Ayia Napa and Protaras reached full capacity during the summer period with the added bonus of the holiday season stretching till November

.I’ve been to Ayia Napa and Protaras a couple of weeks ago and it was obvious that the situation with tourists there is very different from Limassol.  Crowds and crowds of people on the streets, and everywhere.  In Protaras it was even difficult to walk through in the evening – so many people around.  When we drove back to Limassol, it was empty like a deserted island.  Someone in the car suggested that that might be because we came back later in the evening, but I disagreed.  It only takes about an hour and a half to drive from Protaras to Limassol. And there was no way all those people in Protaras could have disappeared from the streets in that time frame.  Now, the newspaper confirms that the situation over there is indeed different.