Wordpress.com updates (2008)
I had a little chat with Matt Mullenweg from WordPress earlier about my previous post.I’m glad to say that a few things got ironed out.Firstly, Litespeed, the proprietary drop in replacement for Apache is gone, for the most part, and going everywhere else. They’re moving to nginx, which is something I’ve been meaning to play with for some time now, after Jason Hoffman from Joyent’s talk at the last RailsConf in Europe.Secondly, and this is the kind of thing that makes me smile, the reason
Friends don't let friends use TypePad? (2008)
There’s some Typepad vs WordPress.com going on. Again. I jumped in and left my two cents worth.At first, I used Movable Type for my blogs, but I dropped it as many people did when WordPress came out. WordPress is GPL, and at the time, this wasn’t particularly important to me, but as time went on, I began to value this more and more. Upgrading WordPress is a pain, and there are updates too frequent for my liking.So, I moved to WordPress.com — adding a domain name to the site was easy, and che