It is Sunday night and I’m sitting next to my wife Jasmine on the sofa in front of the TV. Jasmine is watching “Big Love” on HBO (a series about a guy who is married to three wives, poor guy!), and I have my laptop on my lap, trying to write some thoughts.
Well, I finally did it. I upgraded my blog to the latest WordPress version (currently at 2.0.2). And while I was at it, I also switched to a new WordPress theme. I hope you like it. I wanted to avoid changing the look of the blog, but the old theme was not compatible with WordPress 2.0. Moreover, I used a few new WordPress plugins, you can see all of them here.
Speaking of upgrades, take this simple example:
select nvl(nvl(nvl(null, null),null),4) from dual
What’s wrong with it? Well, having an “upgraded” database version, from 8i to 9i for example, gives you the option to write it like this:
select coalesce(null,null,null,4) from dual
Upgrades are good. But hey, upgrades are not as simple as they sound. Heck, I spent all Sunday afternoon and evening upgrading my simple and small blog. How long will it take to upgrade, not one, but multiple Oracle databases and make sure that nothing breaks in the process. Testing an upgrade is often the most time consuming part of the upgrade process.
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Hope everything is working out...
the two columns make it very busy, a lot hits you at once (I feel sorry for anyone with 17″ or smaller monitor). Grouping is good but one column would be better even if you have to scroll down to see it all. Lots of good features, don’t lose anything!
BTW I love that we have a coldfusion resource with an Oracle focus even though I use SQL server myself, I have some customers that have oracle and it’s only a matter of time before they ask for an Oracle project.
March 27th, 2006, at 7:00 am #Sorry but too much information. My eyes hurt. Your old theme was infinitely better.
March 27th, 2006, at 3:13 pm #Too bad my old theme did not work with WP 2.0 (without messing it up). However, I have taken Michael’s advice and switched to one column to the right, instead of two. I think it is better now. Thanks for your feedback.
March 27th, 2006, at 11:12 pm #I’m using the same them you had:
Semiologic, 2 columns 3.2 by Denis de Bernardy
Works fine on my WP 2.0 release. Did 2.0.2 break it?
March 29th, 2006, at 2:33 pm #Just an update… I patched to 2.0.2 and the theme still works.
March 29th, 2006, at 2:37 pm #Tom, I had an older version of Semiologic (2.6) that was created before WP 2.0 existed.
March 29th, 2006, at 8:48 pm #Jasmine is watching “Big Love†on HBO
Ha! My wife makes we watch Big Love too!
It’s get addicting though . . .
I cannot even imagine having three wives . .
June 12th, 2007, at 8:44 am #