Server moves, testing and updates
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This blog post is, in all honesty, a way of testing the blogging bundle in TextMate. Yes I have succumbed… I’m only 14 days into the 30 day trial period but it certainly looks like I will be putting my hand in my pocket and buying a license.
After months (over a year actually) of being reliant on Eclipse PHP I pretty much thought that my process of development was as streamlined as it could get. Boy was I wrong!! I highly recommend trying it out (Mac owners only though I’m afraid).
Server Moves
We’ve been hosted on the MediaTemple Grid-Server now for almost a year, and whilst it has been mostly fine and certainly better than our previous hosts, the extra level of control and ssh access has spoilt me a bit. I was planning on upgrading to a MediaTemple DPV server until I found Slicehost.
I’ve been playing with a basic Slicehost slice for a few weeks now and have managed to get WordPress MU running on it with the Nginx webserver and PHP5 running as a FastCGI process. I may write up a tutorial at a later date, but all I can say for now is Wow, does that thing fly. It certainly shows up the availability and latency problems MediaTemple have been having over the past 4 months.
I will be posting as parts of the site make the move over to the new server, so if some things stop working, then you know why.
Development Updates
I must admit to being rather inspired by the recent release of the new BuddyPress website and WordPress MU plugins. So I am contemplating taking the Property management plugins in a similar direction (though obviously not by getting a job at Automattic).
The main Property management plugin is very close to approaching an Alpha release. It is primarily a backend administration plugin that has no interaction with the public side of the WordPress powered site. The front-end plugins will use the information generated by the management plugin to display the required information to your site visitors, these will be released a bit later.
I have the Property management plugin currently in use and undergoing testing on one WordPress MU powered site and so far it seems to be behaving itself, there are a few bugs I am working through (and browser issues - yes I am looking at you Internet Explorer) but nothing major.
I will post more on this early next week, and maybe include a screencast of some of the functionality, if I can manage to operate a computer after my planned birthday weekend Irish pub crawl.
