I spent the latter part of last week in Ashland, OR (tough job, but someone's got to do it) installing this project's Online Writing Lab code at Southern Oregon University.

To say that I learned a lot would be a huge understatement. If nothing else, I learned the value of testing on several platforms. They gave me space on a Suse 10 test environment, the same that I use at home, and I was abashed to admit that I never actually installed the code on my Suse box. If I had, I probably could have saved myself 4 or 5 hours of troubleshooting just trying to figure out why core PHP functions were generating error messages (the answer is that Suse breaks up the PHP into a couple packages, which, once they were installed, landed me squarely in squishing bugs in my own code, instead of web server/environmental errors).