Intepid, still running on a tweaked WordPress 1.2.1, is badly in need of an upgrade. I’ve been putting it off for ages because of some minor extensions to the database, which I added for better stats per post and the option of marking comments private. I’ve now removed the extra stats data and incorporated the private marker into one of the standard fields, so will shortly be ready to make the jump to WordPress 1.5.2. Click here to see the current test install [running off a temporary copy of the database, so don't link to anything or leave comments there].

Incidentally, if you’re using a database to host your blog, I highly recommend doing an export now and again, just so you’ve got your own personal backup should anything go horribly wrong. Currently a complete backup of the intepid database compresses neatly to a 425K gzipped file.

In other fantastically interesting upgrade news, I have finally joined the 21C by purchasing my very own copy of Microsoft VisualC++.Net 2003, leaping forward in technology by about 5 years from my current development environment. Up until now pretty much all of my development has been done using VisualC++6.0, which came out in 1998 [or earlier], so I think it may be about time for me to move on…

Of course, Visual Studio 2005 is about to come out, so I’ll be outdated again soon enough…

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UPDATE: Turns out there’s a slight issue regarding optimization when you buy VisualC++.Net Standard [the only available edition], which you can read more about in this post on jujublog …