Before & After & Inbetween

denise wrote a very nice post about technical debt in software development (and I might say, actually in any kind of development). While the post mostly concerns with the seemingly slow advance in DW feature coding, it's actually a very readable summary of what technical debt is, how (and why) it comes to pass, and what it means. If you don't want to get through some of the -notoriously displeasing- tech-articles about such things, I highly recommend reading denise's Technical debt and the making of payments on it instead. :)

I'm again the proud owner of two brand-new & unused Dreamwidth invite codes.
Let me know if you need one. First come, first served. :)

Dreamwidth entered Open Beta (which means paid accounts are up for sale at 3 US-$ and up, sadly currently only via Paypal or money order; purchasing via credit card without a Paypal-account still has a bug, but they're working on fixing it). You can read about their service here.
If you have an open-id account there and validated its email address, you're going to get an invite code soon.
If you don't have an open-id account there yet: I now really have a few Dreamwidth invite codes to give out for free into good hands on a strict first come first served basis. :)

Thanks to solo I'm now the proud owner of akk @ Dreamwidth, which I'm going to use as a full-fledged mirror to akk @ IJ. :)

They are currently in closed beta and you need an invite code to open an account of your own, but their implementation of open-id (you can just use your livejournal account for it and they even allow your open-id account up to 6 icons!) makes "foreign commenting" really easy. I also like the option of anonymous commenting with a captcha, in case of spam. That's better than just blocking ano-coms.

I used their nifty import feature to salvage all the comments left to my stories on Livejournal.
However, importing those from IJ didn't work (yet). But that's a known bug and I hope I can copy the IJ comments later on, once that one's sorted out.

I'm certainly curious about how this specific electric sheep turns out!