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People Between Jobs and a Patch
by Andrew McCaskey
The Tweet Saturday morning says it all
1. Never try to make a patch on a Content Management System when you are very tired
2. Backup does not equal restore.
Here’s what led up to the poor judgment demonstration that has kept the SDRNews.com site off the air for the past weekend.
The project began in a rush to get prepared for the new SDRNewsroom live program, People Between Jobs (PBJ). First, news about that, then back to the patch problem.
Everyone has one time or another been between jobs. I’ve decided to add a weekly live SDRNewsroom show to try to showcase listeners who are between jobs and open the floor to other listeners for questions, coaching, and comments.
It’s an out growth of work that I have been doing on a community service basis for the past seven years, adapted to virtual space.
The first edition of the program will be held Wednesday January 21 at 1:00PM Eastern, 10AM Pacific. – details will be on the site at SDRNews.
Back to the patch.
Other than good practice, why would I try to patch my Joomla installation late at night on a Friday ? I needed to add a community site extension (what in the WordPress world would be called a Plug-in).
I wanted to add a Joomla extension called jomSocial to facilitiate the PBJ program. The problem was, my Jooma install was 1.5.6, and the minimum requirements were 1.5. 7 or above.
I am not sure what I did, but I promise not to do it again. The patch went sideways, somehow. The restore that I did from the backup didn’t, and I quickly realized, by Saturday morning, that I needed professional help.
Open Source Support Desk has the ball now, and I expect to be back up by Monday Eastern Standard Time.
So – the PBJ community site may not be up on the PBJ tab at SDRNews, but the live stream and resulting video will be.
Hope you can join us. !
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