Wordpress 2.5 was released today and we decided to do an upgrade to see how the upgrade process worked. Wordpress is used by thousands of people online and with its simplicity and straightforwardness we assumed the upgrade process would be the same.

We were right, upgrade was a snap, backup, disable plugins, upload, run script, enable plugins and back to normal, took about 10 minutes. Agile software without all the clunky overhead. Fully extendable, customizable and powerful yet free and light.

After reviewing RFP’s from software companies trying to sell old school software to the university it is easy to tell what companies have adapted to the new development styles and which ones are holding tight to their old school software griping it for every dime they can.

Small teams creating the least amout of code to create the most amount of impact. With limited resources we have to adopt these principles or die. Every peice of code we create is part of a larger master plan, it has to be forward thinking and be useful to most of the unit around campus.

Great work Wordpress and Happy Cog for the interface.

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