Drew C King: PHP Developer

I’ve decided to give a name to this barebones framework that I’ve been playing with for the past couple of months. I’m calling it Comb. Unfortunately it takes a long time to fully explain the thinking behind the name. Similar to Camber, however, the jist of it is simplicity; think “get the tangles out of my code”. Plus comb is a lot faster to say and type than MVCish-framework-based-on-autoprependfile-and-output-buffering.
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In the past I’ve upgraded Wordpress the old school way: download latest.tar.gz, unzipped to a temp dir, backed up the database, backed up my docroot, copied the new files into place, ran the upgrade script, and made sure all was right with the world. Not terribly difficult to do, but very much a hassle that I very much preferred to avoid.

But then this morning I decided to glance a bit further down the Upgrading WordPress page and saw this little gem:
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