I have been working from home since 2015. I had to move with my wife to a small city, but I was able to keep my job at the University and regularly travel to our home town to meet my colleagues. However in 2017 started working for a company located in the UK and videoconferences became very common in my day to day.
I do not certainly hate systemd, I see its power, but in my opinion some of its ideas are not
helping at all, or maybe they were not executed the best way possible.
I take care of several Redmine based platforms, and every now and then I
get a report about an issue that disappeared under unknown circumstances. Logs show that it is
usually caused by someone with too many privileges who accidentally deleted the issue, but that’s
another story.
I have always avoided working with XML. Parsing and writing it always felt too difficult. I thought
that way until I found an actually easy and manageable way of working with it. I will focus on the
process of generating XML documents using PHP.
These last weeks I had to upgrade a large ownCloud
installation. It was the community edition, so there was little to none
information about how to upgrade such big instances. Many ownCloud community
installations seem to be running on small organizations, so most recommendations
about upgrading were not valid for this instance. I had to upgrade 3 major
releases, from ownCloud 4.5 to ownCloud 7.