Last week, pMachine hosting, which is now called “Engine Hosting”, contacted me to say they were moving some servers on Saturday night, and would I please set a couple locks open for them to proceed.
OK, no problem; they were very nice about it and the transfer went smoothly. By Sunday morning this blog was back up, and by 1:00 pm, MrsDoF’s blog was back up too. (Let the reader understand the urgency of that second point…) All was well, except hey, you old fool, you’re running a “really old” version of Expression engine! And your terms of service, blah-blah-blak something-something.” It was time to upgrade, to fix that which was not broken.
OK, they were nicer than that. But last time I attempted to upgrade Expression Engine, I managed to screw it up. Sure, I tweak the template a bit from time to time but I just haven’t had the time to really get into EE and hack the circuit. EE is something that I only touch once a year or so (longer if possible) so I’m basically a “user” with that package. Those of you in computer support know that isn’t predictive of a good outcome.
Les Jenkins over at SEB rescued me back then, so this time, I asked Les if he’d guide me through the process. (See what happens if you feed stray cats, Les?) Having 20-20 tech-support vision he graciously offered to do the upgrade for me. I accepted and here we are at version 1.6.0 – WooHoo! Les, what can I say – you totally rock! I gots you some Anime’ on the way
Oh, and pmachine.com is now called ellislab.com. The more things change… Folks, please drop me an email if anything weirder than usual happens in page rendering or commenting.
Don’t forget about keeping up with the most recent build, too
Not a problem. I’m happy to help. He’s up and running on the most recent build as well. I even took the time to go in and tweak a few template errors I noticed as I was pokin’ around.
All looks fine on this end.
And a new build was released overnight
Quick, DOF, get on the upgrade treadmill!
Minor bug fixes, though one of them is a cosmetic fix that would be useful. I’ll probably just upgrade DOF’s installation when I get around to doing my own.
In fact, if he’s so inclined, I’ll just check every now and then and keep him updated until he gets time to do it himself. It’s not a big chore.
I update my installs of EE and EE Core from the command line. Takes no time at all