By John Gruber
Turn your developer product into a movement. Get your DX Checkup.
Ouch:
Until the night of the crash, the magazine had never had to rely on its backup server, Quittner said, so no one had noticed that its programming was either obsolete or dysfunctional, or both. Just last November, the magazine had listed off-site backup as being among “the usual precautions.”
Good reminder: test your backups regularly. (Via Y Combinator.)
★ Thursday, 3 May 2007