Playing with Programs

At times I am becoming a laggard when it comes to upgrading stuff… However, I love upgrades that focus solely on usability. A while back I switched a couple of wordpress blogs over to subversion. Before that, upgrading was a pain (download zip, unzip, move files around, hope that it works etc.), now it is easy – kudos to the wordpress team!

I got curious after reading the sneak peek announcement. I started looking for a 2.5 tag in subversion  – turns out there isn’t one yet, so I switched to trunk (‘trunk’ is a subversion naming convention for the latest version of something):

svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk

And it seems to work flawlessly so far! If you want to see which tags are available in subversion, they have a subversion browser , and a how to use subversion. If you haven’t done so already, I recommend you switch your existing wordpress over to subversion. It makes (security) updates much, much easier to install. Even if you want to play on the safe side and use only stable versions (in the browser they are located under ‘tags’), I recommend you read up on how to update your wordpress with subversion, and give it a spin.

Something else that’s working well for me is keeping a separate blog (this one) for testing/experimental purposes, and a ‘main’ blog elsewhere.