Something to do with updating the RSS feed to 2.0 instead of 0.91, which didn't contain publish dates. Does this mean we're web 2.0-enabled? Always wondered what that meant. Just when web 3.0 and cloud computing are taking over the memespace....
Our apologies. You can now go back to reading your favourite blog in peace. We'll be good now, promise. (You can sign up again at http://planet.activestate.com/)
That's just too bad. The building we live in will be shutting down power for some electrical maintenance tonight. Why do I care ? Well, because I have this trusty OpenBSD Firewall that's been humming along in a closet forever. Well, not forever, but almost.
[root@dorsk root]# uname -a ; uptime
OpenBSD dorsk.bc.ectoplasm.org 3.7 GENERIC#50 i386 11:59PM
up 784 days, 10:51, 1 user, load averages: 0.86, 0.64, 0.48
[root@dorsk root]# shutdown -p -h now
Shutdown NOW!
*** FINAL System shutdown message from root@dorsk.bc.ectoplasm.org
*** System going down IMMEDIATELY
System shutdown time has arrived
Oh well, can't be helped. Go OpenBSD, GO!
Time to move those lovely servers that keep us ticking, so we'll be off the grid for a bit while you enjoy margaritas for Cinco de Mayo.
It's a new co-location site, only about four blocks away (wave to our web kids hauling servers down the streets of Vancouver tonight). It'll make for happier sites for ActiveState.com (accounts, downloads, and purchases will be affected), ASPN, the Open Komodo website, and the Community Site. Don't click those links I just mentioned in the next few hours though, or you'll probably get our little "no one is here to take your call" message or somesuch tech-roadblock nicety.
It'll be less than two hours—assuming no one from our team orders pitchers of umbrella drinks from the local cantina (that's a big assumption, btw). ¡Salud!
Drupal Camp Vancouver is taking place this Friday and Saturday; the schedule is here if you want to check it out:
http://drupalcampvancouver.org/sessions
I will be a giving a quick talk on Saturday afternoon that is a case study of how I implemented basic Mozilla extension hosting in Drupal so that Komodo users can upload and host extensions on our community site for Komodo. In particular the talk will focus on how the design and business principles we had before we started meshed well with Drupal's capabilities to allow us to get up and running without having to write a lot of custom code.
So often in life, defining success is difficult. Is it 10 times ROI? Is it a shiny new bank account after an acquisition or IPO? (No, ActiveState is not at that stage, I'm just dreaming of my own Central American island.) Well, those are nice when they happen, but not as personally fulfilling as seeing users excited enough about the software you write that they make the effort to tell others, or contribute something to it. We've always had some level of that happening around Komodo, but in the last year it has really begun to take off. There are more and more people making those contributions, and that is awesome. Here's a blog entry where the user has gone to the extent to do a lengthy screencast introducing the features of Komodo Edit, and one of our contributors just released a side-by-side diff extension. I find I like thinking of success as having lots of interested and engaged users.
