{"id":6707,"date":"2015-03-14T19:30:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T23:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6707"},"modified":"2015-03-14T19:30:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T23:30:20","slug":"upgrading-upgrading-upgrading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6707","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading, upgrading, upgrading…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hate software upgrades.<\/p>\n

It is one of the least productive ways to use one’s time. I am talking about upgrades that are more or less mandatory, when a manufacturer ends support of an older version. So especially if the software in question is exposed to the outside world, upgrading is not optional: the security risk associated with using an unsupported, obsolete version is quite significant.<\/p>\n

Today, I was forced to upgrade all my Web sites that use the Joomla content management system, as support for Joomla 2.5 ended in December, 2014.<\/p>\n

\"Joomla-Logo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

What can I say. It was not fun. I am using some custom components and some homebrew solutions, and it took the better part of the day to get through everything and resolve all compatibility issues.<\/p>\n

And I gained absolutely nothing. My Web sites look exactly like they did yesterday (apart from things that might \u00a0be broken as a result of the upgrade, that is.) I just wasted a few precious hours of my life.<\/p>\n

Did I mention that I hate software upgrades?<\/p>\n<\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hate software upgrades. It is one of the least productive ways to use one’s time. I am talking about upgrades that are more or less mandatory, when a manufacturer ends support of an older version. So especially if the software in question is exposed to the outside world, upgrading is not optional: the security […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,6,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-security","category-internet","category-personal","category-51-id","category-6-id","category-35-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6709,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707\/revisions\/6709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}