I had the occasion over the last couple of days to do some work with python, php, and xslt.
Python, which I haven’t really touched for a couple years, comes back fairly quickly. especially on this little project, where I am looking at two different code bases, no documentation except for the code–it is pretty easy [...]

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Maybe you’ve been upgrading your Wordpress installation using the Subversion method (sweet and easy! if you like the command line). If so, in the update to v2.6.1 or so, perhaps you’ve gotten this error message:
Fetching external item into ‘wp-content/plugins/akismet’
svn: ‘wp-content/plugins/akismet’ is not a working copy
svn: Can’t open file ‘wp-content/plugins/akismet/.svn/entries’: No such file or directory
Yeah, me [...]

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