Blue Sky On Mars

Thoughts on Building Software Products

The Ridiculously Thorough Guide to Making Your Own Pizza

by Kevin Dangoor

Not that I have time to do so these days, but when the time arises, Billy Reisinger’s The Ridiculously Thorough Guide to Making Your Own Pizza will be there to help me make a dandy pizza. I’m looking forward to his deep dish installment.

Zesty News update

by Kevin Dangoor

I’ve been very quiet about Zesty News the past few weeks. The reason for this is simple: I don’t like pitching vaporware. When I announced Zesty News at the end of April, I had a specific distinct bug list that I was going to tackle before release of the alpha, so I felt fine in announcing it. I don’t regret having done so, because I also wanted to put the name out there.

I’ve worked with some people who liked to emphasize that “plan is a verb”. You don’t make a plan and then stick to it rigidly, even as the world around you changes. In May, I made a couple of choices that have delayed the Zesty News software a bit. I’ll write more about that later.

I’m going to remain generally quiet about Zesty News at this point, until I ship the alpha.

PHP security update

by Kevin Dangoor

For anyone out there that doesn’t read Slashdot: Netcraft: PHP Blogging Apps Vulnerable to XML-RPC Exploits. This includes WordPress and Drupal, both of which I am using at present. Time to go update!