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Archive for November, 2004

SourceForge CVS takes my developer urge away

29 Nov

Since Serendipity uses SourceForge, we naturally also use the SourceForge CVS services. The problem is that CVS is painfully slow 90% of the time, and having to wait 7 min. for a “cvs diff -u” is unacceptable. The anonymous CVS has a 24 hour lag. So changes committed now, will only be available to the public 24 hours later, again this is unacceptable.

I am so sick of SourceForge CVS, I’ve had times when I simply stopped coding because the waiting literally took my motivation away.

I mean, SourceForge can have all the mirrors they want, but if none of the projects can develop anything – then why even bother?

We’ve considered moving to BerliOS, and while I initially opposed this, I am starting to have my share of doubts. A super fast CVS server would be really.. really nice.

 
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s9y.org downtime

27 Nov

To all that wonder why s9y.org is down: We are currently experiencing some DNS problems that apparently cannot be fixed in a timely fashion because of a lazy sysadmin – use s9y.info in the meantime.

Sorry for the inconvenience, we are as frustrated as anyone about this.

 
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World of Warcraft, a massive success

25 Nov

Some quotes:

“In just one day, World of Warcraft sold through an estimated 250,000 copies to players. Over 200,000 accounts have already been created, and peak concurrency across all active game servers has been above 100,000″

“We launched with 41 servers in the U.S. yesterday, and we are bringing up an additional 34 servers today to accommodate the influx of players.”

“World of Warcraft has once again shown that Blizzard consistently delivers the best games in the industry,” said Robert McKenzie, vice president of merchandising at GameStop. “It sold better than any other PC game this year – in fact, World of Warcraft enjoyed the best day-one sell-through GameStop has ever seen on a PC title!”

The math:
250.000 players x 1 month x $15/month = 3.750.000 million dollars every single month

… and 250.00 players is just for the first day of sales.

In short, World of Warcraft is a HUGE success and it seems like Blizzard can handle it (they put up servers to handle the load)

 
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Blogging Live From the Conference Floor

06 Nov

Blogging Live From the PHP Conference & MySQL ComCon Floor with Serendipity.
Very nice design.

 
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Version Control System Comparison

06 Nov

Redemption in a Blog has an interesting link to a Version Control System Comparison.
Serendipity is currently considering moving away from CVS and SourceForge. Honestly I find CVS lacking in many areas and the Sourceforge CVS is painfully slow and 24 hours behind for anonymous users, which is really not acceptable. That said, Sourceforge does provide a good base for projects, their search function is widely used and real alternatives to Sourceforge are hard to come by.

 
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Invision isn’t free anymore? What?

05 Nov

After a long time of not being active in the forum world, I just discovered that Invision Power Board is no longer free!

I’ve always loved Invision, more than phpBB and vBulletin – but now I guess I have to find another alternative or a version of Invision that’s not under this ridicules license (post a comment if you got it, or know which version is still considered free. I’ve managed to dig up v2.0.0 PF 3).

FUDforum is a valid alternative, but it’s pretty ugly.
phpBB 2.2 is said to be awesome, but still in alpha development and the process is slow (fair enough, open source)

 
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