ShowMeDo will be publishing a five part series on using Google App Engine. Sounds like they will get you up and running with the SDK and coding a little Hello World app in rather short order.

Upgraded to WordPress 2.5 today. New admin interface and lots of internal changes. w00t!

There’s a new WordPress beta available:

However all of the new functionality is still very rough, so only test the beta if you are comfortable troubleshooting PHP issues, filing tickets, and backing up your data religiously. If you’re interested you can join the wp-testers mailing list and download the beta here.

Tempting, but I’m not sure I want to deal with the potential issues. It looks like, based on a proposed release timeline, they will have a stable 2.3 release out by the end of September.

I haven’t been doing a lot of Python coding lately, but I have been doing a bit of running. :)

I finally got around to upgrading WordPress to the latest version. Everything seems to have gone well.

Did the IPCop 1.4.14 and 1.4.15 updates tonight and rebooted the box. Everything appears to be working and no problems were encountered… contrary to what others claimed.

What do you hate most about your language? That’s the simple but interesting question Brian asks in a recent post:

Try this question the next time someone tries to push a different programming language on you, or even when you want to hire someone: “What five things do you hate most about language X?”

If they can’t find five things to hate, they don’t know the language well enough to either advocate it or pull in the big dollars using it.

First Titus listed his five, and now Jacob has his list up as well. Both are well worth reading.

Can you name five things you hate about your favorite/pet language?

Whoa… they are saying Wordpress 2.1.1 is dangerous:

Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.

Good thing I never bothered to upgrade. :)

Hrm… server was down for a bit tonight. No idea why. :)

Chris McAvoy is happy to be behind the Django curve:

…Django is an awesome moving target. As I sort of jump in and jump out on a couple month interrupt, I love these little surprises. I’ve known there was a Django testing framework for a while now, I just haven’t used it. Now with little-mini-project, I’ll have a reason to use it.

Cool.