The twins started watching The Sound of Music this weekend. It's a longer movie than I recalled, and because we started later in the evening they couldn't watch it all in one sitting.
The tension of the final scene had both girls worried, and they refused to watch the movie alone. Tyler beamed with happiness as the von Trapps sped off, and was amazed to think that they were going to walk to Switzerland.
When "The End" appeared on screen, Tyler pouted. "No!" she exclaimed. She really wanted to know what happened: did they make it to Switzerland? What happened then? What did they all do? She demanded that someone make "The Sound of Music 2"
The WordPress Bug Hunt was pretty successful, and a lot of fun. Mark, Robert, and a handful of others were already hard at work just after midnight EDT! I joined the party at 10 AM EDT, and the #wordpress-bugs channel was bustling with bug hunting activity. Owen was there, along with Mark and Robert, and they were hitting a pretty good stride, focusing on a variety of bugs.
I decided to whittle down the easier bugs, so that the heavyweights could focus on the harder items. I worked on some template and theme issues, as well as some of the easier workflow items. Podz helped test some patches, and Morydd did double duty testing and writing patches. Shortly after lunch time Mike joined me at the Panera where I was working, and we joined an NaNoWriMo write-in. The room was filled with the soft clack-clack of keys being pounded.
We got into a pretty good rhythm, with Mark, Robert and Owen really cranking out patches, while Mike and Morydd helped test. I did a little bit of both, and also tried to close bugs that were invalid or inappropriate, to make sure that the list of open bugs was populated with stuff that actually needed work. It was actually quite exciting to be able to focus so completely on bugs, and to have such talented people on-hand to answer questions and provide suggestions. The collaboration of review, patch, and test was really something else.
The fun went on through Sunday, though I didn't participate. At the time of this writing, 90 bugs have been squashed! It might not seem like much, in comparison to the 400+ open tickets, but it's a great start, and will go a very long way toward making WordPress 1.6 a terrific product.
Thanks to everyone who helped out!
I splurged recently and purchased a new laptop. I've been eyeing them for well over a year, comparing models, features, and prices. My budget was limited, so as much as I might've liked a full desktop replacement, I knew I was going to end up with a desktop supplement.
My old laptop, a Compaq Armada 7370DMT is about six years old. It's a Pentium 233Mhz, 96 megs of RAM and a 4GB hard drive. No USB; no built-in wireless; the built-in pointing device is non-functional; and the battery holds about 40 minutes of charge, if I'm lucky. I spend about five minutes unpacking all the necesary junk just to use this old clunker: power cord, Orinoco wireless card, serial mouse.
I looked long and hard at several Winbook laptops with AMD64 processors. I thought a 64 bit CPU might be a nice thing to have; but I ultimately decided that I didn't need that kind of power right now. Moreover, Debian GNU/Linux, my preferred Linux distribution, does not have a full AMD64 port just yet. Ordinarily this wouldn't bother me too much, but several missing components from the experimental AMD64 port are rather important to me: the Flash plugin for Mozilla Firefox and OpenOffice. It's possible to run both of these, by use of a 32 bit chroot environment, but that's way too much hassle for me right now.
I purchased an Averatec AV4270-EH1. After charging the battery, I set to installing Debian. I began this process around 9:30 PM. I've installed Debian many times, and felt confident that I could work through any hiccups that might occur along the way.
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The upcoming WordPress Bug Hunt is receiving a lot of attention, and we're all getting pretty excited. This should be a fun way to meet other WordPress users and hackers, and a great way to give back to a project which you love.
We really do want as many people as possible to participate, and we don't want anyone to be turned off by the tools we use (Subversion, Trac, etc). To that end, several folks have prepared some fantastic cheat sheets to help you get started:
There's also this cross-reference which can be invaluable when looking for what function lives in which file.
And finally, to help people get a fresh version of WordPress 1.6 installed without mucking around with Subversion at all, you can download wp16-SNAPSHOT.zip. This file gets rebuilt every 30 minutes.
See you Saturday in #wordpress-bugs!
I discovered a rather dreadful flaw in Impostercide: it was blocking trackbacks and pingbacks!
Impostercide 1.1 fixes this problem. Anyone using this plugin is strongly encouraged to upgrade!