After moving to Eastern Washington, Qwest thought it would be fun to break my Internet connection not once but twice; the latest involving a corporate thought process similar to: “Oh, you’ve had an external ISP for the past four years and moved twice, but you really didn’t want us to switch you over to MSN this time?”. le sigh.
Work is going great. I’ve spent the past two weeks hacking away on custom WordPress sites, which is good and bad. Good is boning up on my apache admin knowledge and regular-expression mastery. Bad is that it’s PHP, and trying to color outside of the lines on WP results in lots of headaches with mod_rewrite, and designers who thought it was totally cool to hack in custom css/js compressors.
Additionally, I’ve been formally introduced to distributed source-control by a longtime friend. I’m now itching to try out Mercurial on some personal projects, to evaluate it for possible use at work. I have to admit that most of my exposure came from slashdot fallout about git, which put me off of the concept for quite awhile, but realizing that you don’t need to setup a personal server just to try it has gotten me excited.
Finally, E is a new text editor for Win32, which promises “the power of TextMate on WIndows”. This had me all hot and bothered to try it, until the actual setup time came:
The setup needs to be run as Administrator. OK, fine, installing for all users, great. What? Update Cygwin? OK! Great, it’s intelligent enough to..wait, you’re installing to the user-specific directory? Even though I already have a cygwin installation on this machine? And after it finishes for the administrator user, it needs to do it again for my personal account?
That being said, it does have some promise. I’ll report back later on it.
