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That's great Michael. If that's any help for you:
1. i'm using task/todo list for such things.
2. In David Allen's book "Getting Things Done" there is whole chapter or more which is i think about the problem you metioned (he names this "open loops" - problems you must solve but don't want to have it constantly in your mind but manage them in some way using external memory to not clutter mind and not forget them).
Probably you heard about this book because it's popular but i think it's worth mentioning, it's the case when popularity comes with reason before not after ;)
Thats more a wetware problem, than a software :)
URL aggregators online/offline are also good for keeping resources in one place, you can use tags for fast search.
It's imporant to find one which can export data to "human format" to convert it later fe. when service is going to be shutdown or you need other functions.
I'm looking foward to it.
Thanks for great service!
Thanks. I didn`t dig that far ;)
Great initiative, it would be nice to have some more info on your site who you (they) are. I think many people aren`t going to download and execute data from unknown person/organisation.
I`ve read that doc, and it looks like you are right. Now i`m even more courious how they measure single hit reading time.
I`ve checked how it works with "Real-Time" option of the Google Analytics. When i closed a tab Google Analytics knew that i stopped reading the page (the on-line user counter was updated -1). Maybe it works different with a standard report (i didn`t read the code), but maybe not? They could use javascript browser events detection and i don`t think such a bug would remain unseen.
Open Source is designed for re-use, you also can give something back. It could be a code, documentation or support for community in any valuable means.
Most of the game programmers i know started early, and are self-learners, but it shouldn`t discourage you. You could start as a tester or level developer and slowly get better. Good luck!
A few people can reach the top of that moutain on the cover art ;-P
I agree with "Security is a process, not a product." AFAIK security is important for WordPress team. There is a lot of good documentation on a project site and there are some materials from WordCamps (fe.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress)
Latest WP "hack" via botnets was because of weak logins and passwords which are set by the users. Can you blame WP devs for that?
Speaking about upgrading; making updates easier it`s also one of the goals of the project. Also it isn`t that hard when you develop WP sites using information from WordPress Codex docs.
I hope it will get better with time, and as i wrote people are working to get things better. Sorry to hear that you are not going to recommend WordPress any longer.
No, i`ve tried to say that WordPress is simple enough (for a non-technical person after a short training) to deal with the majority of tasks. I don`t know easier open source CMS comparable to WordPress.
Small business needs an easy CMS whereby staff can do most of the tasks without present "IT Crowd". AFAIK WordPress gets it done (with some minor problems - as you wrote fe. updating is a problem for non-technical people and WordPress haves no MVC, so it`s easy to go spaghetti way with the code). WordPress devs are trying to resolve problems which are most voted within the community.
Yes, exactly - it`s not a problem with tool, but with use of it. I also wouldn`t recommend using any software without knowledge how it behaves and what can be done with it.
@vinceguidry
IMHO being out of date isn`t a WordPress problem, it`s a clients or a developer problem. Any software must be upgraded from time to time.
Can you suggest any more elegant solution? In my opinion WordPress is good solution with great community.
With many different people you get a lot of different levels of deployment, so maybe you didn`t have a luck?
@katzgrau
I also agree with that opinion. I think it could be extrapolated to making sth for money in general.
@rbsn
I don`t know how much do you charge hourly, but i`ll assume that it`s fair price for a job done. If it is so, maybe your clients are cheapskates? There is a trend in thinking (especially within small business owners or managers) that good "website" is easy to make and there is a lot of people who can do it. I would agree with the second, but not the first. Usually after one or two bigger failed projects wise firms learn price to quality ratio. There rest are cheapskates that must be avoided ;)
What do you mean by "push" approach to DNS propagation?