Viewing Articles with the tag: testing
WordPress 2.5
29.Mar.08 | 3 Comments
WordPress 2.5 just went gold (download). There are a stunning number of changes in this release — and I won’t bother to detail them all here. There’s probably going to be about a kabillion blog posts on that today…
I, personally, am not going to stampede into this particular upgrade though. I’ve been following the WP [...]
Crowdsource Security Testing
10.Feb.08 | 3 Comments
I just caught this TechCrunch article about uTest, a sort of outsourced/crowdsourced software testing broker. In short, get paid to find bugs or pay others to find your application’s bugs.
Seems like something similar but focused on security testing would be incredibly useful. Who’s going to launch that one?
Downtime - Resolved
07.Oct.07 | 3 Comments
A few days ago I mentioned I was having some downtime issues here. With a bit of luck and a lot of help, I believe I have it solved.
First off, I don't believe it was a plugin causing the issue. It seems to have (indirectly) been WordPress itself!
Long story short: A spider/bot was, for some reason, requesting a page [...]
Testing New WordPress Versions Part 4: Upgrade!
22.Sep.07 | 1 Comment
This is Part 4 of a multi-part series of posts discussing how I test new major releases of WordPress before upgrading my “live” sites. The first step got us rolling with a XAMPP install . Next, we copied our Live database to the test environment. The third step was the copying of the current WP [...]
Short Detour with the Testing New WordPress Series - Database Issue
19.Sep.07 | 4 Comments
After finishing yesterday's article, I noticed I had a problem with the newly copied local blog: Funny characters showing up in my posts!
In IE7, they're little empty squares:
In Firefox they're black diamonds with question marks:
I checked the live MySql version against the one that came with XAMPP. While not identical, they're close. Local is 5.0.45 [...]
