JD HICKS DESIGNS

I really wasn't planning on upgrading to php5 but that seems to be the way the wind is blowing. Especially when my trusted PHP OS X dev site, entropy.ch tells me that this is what I need to do. So it was a toss up, try to run separate lives from the rest of the world or bite the bullet. In the tech world it's bite the bullet. In the name of progress there will always be updates and these are usually for the better. I will no pass up the due dilligence necessary though, so I most of my first cycle was spent looking into this upgrade to make sure my world wouldn't come crashing down.

BACK UP BACK UP BACK UP let me tell you. So far there's hasn't been too much of any shockers, Application Vault might not work properly, I guess that's to be expected as those packages are about 2 - 3 or more versions old. Ok, seriously, don't use Application Vault, that's 2 - 3 or more versions worth of serious security issues. Using Application Vault is the equivilant of using some 'closed source' solution, you cannot respond to the security updates intime that 'open source' is all about.

So this is really cool for the first time my systems are all in sync. That's a good thing. This time around I'm developing on separate machines as part of a development environment. This means that I'm not developing on the actaull webserver that I am sending my client and beta testers to. How crazy is that. To make this more fun, I get to watch about 2000 lines of code fly by as I ./configure, make and make install. I'm glad that I don't really have to understand all that stuff and really glad when I see code like "…yes" and "…success" and "…found" etc.,