Since changing over to a new machine, I’ve had to recreate my development system, and try to focus a bit upon one of the most neglected: The very software which I use to create my site.
It’s unfeasable, even with my new traffic and space allotment to attempt to do development on a staging system before getting the basic bugs worked out.
Rather than contending with my old system of a custom compilation of PHP 5 with fallbacks to PHP4, I’ve opted to reinstall Marc Liyanage’s PHP build of PHP4.
I have upgraded my shared hosting account to allow for 1GB of space, and 15GB of traffic a month.
As such, I am temporarily removing my external file mirrors from my download options – I should be able to handle all requests locally, however, should traffic pick up astronomically, I’ll put them back into place.
Today is a sad day. My current machine can no longer manage my existing code base for development and production – it’s taken me nearly three weeks to try to make a current build of MyPasswordSafe – which doesn’t work.
I’ve sold my old PowerBook, and am looking to obtain a new system upon which to develop existing software, and port current builds to MacOS X.
As it seems that supporting free software (free as in beer) doesn’t merit equipment, or even mirrors for software – it’ll be a few weeks until I get things back… and obtain a new system, if not a couple of months.
Thank you for your support and kind words.
[Edit: December 19th, 2004: I finally managed to save up, and obtain a used iBook. Development will continue shortly.]