i finally got ubuntu installed on my laptop. there are some really cool benefits to having linux on my laptop. i can do cool pipe stuff that was hard to do on my windows installation that makes some tasks i do much easier. i have however not found a decent development tool for us to use at work. we do a ton of web development in php and we have some pretty specific needs as to how an environment would work. the closest thing i’ve found is something like vim with a crazy .vimrc. not sure i want to try to got that route though as it would be kinda nasty and my coworkers would find it difficult to use.
the nice side affect for this is to allow me to more easily develop on bongo as now i have linux with me and don’t have to shell somewhere to work. this allowed me to commit my buggy patch removing the rest of openssl from the system. the bug is an odd one that i can seem to reproduce easily, but alex could only get the other day. i hoped to get that worked on tonight, but i got side tracked trying to fix my wordpress blog. which leads me to my next issue.
the wordpress community stinks. they are so rude out on #wordpress@freenode. after a bunch of heated exchanges they cursed at me telling me that wp_cron.php wasn’t a used part of the system. i asked why it was installed by default and they told me it wasn’t, it isn’t used. i did a bunch of debugging and found that it was getting called, but i didn’t know what it was for. they kept yelling that it wasn’t used. i finally gave in and told them i’d just comment it out. great. the stuff loads fine and fast now (load times before were near 12 seconds). i log in to start blogging this and guess what. i know what wp-cron does. it is what does the “every so many seconds save a draft of the current blog”. as i’m typing, the system is throwing errors on the bottom of the screen stating that it can’t find a function that is defined in the file that i removed. odd. i don’t know what the issues is with that stuff and why it doesn’t seem to want to run at all fast, but all seems to be workign fine without it. as for the community, i was shocked and appalled at how rude they were out there. it is enough to make me want to switch off wordpress altogether just because of the people.
one thing that impresses me about bongo is the community. it might change in the future, but right now we have a good core group of people that are almost always polite to anyone asking questions. that, to me, is a very important thing. i’m glad i’m a part of it.