Tag: Software

All software has bugs

Anyone who had ever wrote more than 3 lines of code will tell you any time that all software has bugs. That’s just the way it is.

And while I don’t need any reminders of this fact (mainly due to me writing a lot of code at any given week), I got one special today.

A SPAM comment was posted to this blog, although you haven’t seen it because it went to moderation, that was clearly a result of a bug in SPAM software. The message contained a long list of phrases like ‘Thank you’, ‘Very interesting’, and ‘I bookmarked your blog’. Obviously these are intended for link SPAM. But they were supposed to be used one at a time. Oops.

More on Skype

Let me do a little side note, before I start – Mom, you should really read this post! :)

Now, just a couple of days ago I wrote that I decided to try Skype. I downloaded it and installed on my computer. There were few nice things about it that I noticed immediately, but there are so many more that need a second look!

Here we go…

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Skype anyone?

I think I’ve heard about Skype from more people than there are in China. I’ve finally decided to download and try it out.

Cross-platform – nice.

RPM package is available for Fedora Core 3, which worked just fine on Fedora Core 4 – nice.

I don’t have not even a single microphone – not nice.

Even if I had, talking would have been difficult most times (office people or kid shouting or sleeping at home) – not nice.

Possibility to call regular/mobile phones from the computer for an extremely low price – nice.

Chat is built-in – nice.

User identification is based on nicknames, not emails (which change) or ugly long numbers (which are impossible to remember) – nice. (My nickname is mamchenkov, by the way).

Without any contacts and without microphone, I can’t really check the functionality or the interface thoroughly.

Do any of you, guys, use Skype? How do I contact you?

WordPress 1.5.2 vs. WordPress 2.0 – the briefest fight ever.

For some of my recent new projects I have installed WordPress 2.0. I haven’t upgraded any of my WordPress 1.5.2 installations yet, because of all sorts of troubles that I keep hearing about. I am sure that developers are working to fix those, because, frankly speaking, using WordPress 1.5.2 after WordPress 2.0 is pretty close to painful.

And that I find really strange. I was always very happy with WordPress 1.5. It was almost as good as it gets for me. No annoyances, no bugs, clean design and interface. I wasn’t even thinking about anything better. There was no need.

But Admin area of WordPress 2.0 clearly showed me that there were some annoyances in WordPress 1.5. They just were so small that I wasn’t paying any attention to them. (if you are interested, the improvements that I care about are proper post preview, better editor, cleaner overall interface, file uploader and thumbnail builder with common sense this time) Still, it became clear that WordPress 1.5 wasn’t perfect. And who wants to use an imperfect thingy, when there is a perfect one.

I guess I’ll be upgrading this blog to WordPress 2.0 shortly. Very shortly. I just need to find a a goo time spot that would allow to do the update and iron out all incompatibilities and misbehaviours.

P.S.: While writing this entry the word “WordPress” was used 13 times.

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