New server! New delivery mechanism! Upgraded wordpress! One further step along the way from retiring my old server, for good.
thunderthumbs.org was on WordPress 1.5.2 for ages. I’ve always been grumpy about WordPress, for several reasons. One is that I’m a programmer and I’ve heard so many bad things about the php behind wordpress that I’ve never wanted to really dig into it. Another is that I think the whole theme/plugin thing is such a time sink, although I guess that would be the issue with any blog software.
But another is that I’m a programmer used to a certain kind of delivery process, and wordpress has always been unfriendly towards it. When you’re programming a website, you should never edit or touch any files on the live site. You should instead always apply your changes onto a local “development” installation, and then use a source code management system, or a publishing mechanism that reads from an SCM, to push/publish the changes to your live server.