Blog software update
Saturday, February 23. 2019
Some of you may have noticed I've been busy doing everything else but blogging.
There were number of reasons:
- No shoes -phenomenon
- What I do for living (and past-time) is build/maintain/hack systems. Some of them running web applications such as this cloud Azure VM Nginx/PHP/PostgreSQL -thingie.
- Sometimes just starting a tedious task of fixing/updating/repairing a server instead of playing The Division or Far Cry doesn't do the trick for me. I choose to play for entertainment and not update the server.
- Ref.: The Cobbler's children have no shoes
- PHP 5.6 support EOL
- See https://secure.php.net/supported-versions.php for details
- This blog has been running on 5.6 for years and to get that updated, I had to re-asses configurations to get 7.2 running. Not an easy task, but had to be done to go forward.
- Serendipity 2.1 upgrade
- Most of you have never realized, I wouldn't touch Wordpress with a 9 foot pole. This blog runs on Serendipity (aka s9y).
- Previous version of S9y 2.0 wouldn't run correctly with PHP 7.2, so I had to go for this upgrade too.
- See https://docs.s9y.org/ for details.
- Mobile template
- This blog gets reasonable Page Rank from Google, but it really suffers from not being very good when displayed on a mobile device.
- See #1 above. This is what I do for living. It should be not a complicated task to strap Bootstrap boot on top of the theme.
- See http://blog.s9y.org/index.php?user_template=additional_themes/brownpaper
What hasn't changed: I'm still in Microsoft Azure, running CentOS 7.
The mobile version of Brown Paper is still under work in my lab VM, but it will be out soon. I promise!
