Do you like MetaFilter? Want your own MetaFilter? Try MetaPhilter, or perhaps FreeFilter…

MetaPhilter is a PHP app, while FreeFilter is written in perl.

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I was trying to figure out why I was so tired and having a hard time staying awake. Could it be staring at SQL code within perl code all day? I noticed that Meteorologist said it was 72 degrees, definitely time to stop staring at the monitor and go outside. A quick jaunt outdoors and one time around the block should wake things up. It’s weird to see big piles of snow outside after Meteorologist tells you it’s in the 70’s, but we just ignored the snow, sure it would disappear soon enough. As we got back inside, we noticed that it was warm, really warm. We hadn’t noticed this before. We then noticed that the wall thermometer indicated it was roughly 78 degrees in the office. Very uncool. In fact, the opposite of cool, it was warm! So here we sit, sweating… staring at code again… and trying to stay awake…

sigh…

Well, I’ve settled on Mantis for our bug tracking needs. It’s a PHP/MySQL app, and does a pretty good job of things so far. In the past I’ve used Bugzilla but unless you’ve got your own server to run it on, and a day to spend tweaking your environment and install perl modules, Bugzilla isn’t really an option. Mantis was up and running in about 15 minutes…

So now it’s time to track some issues, squash some bugs, ignore feature requests, and generally attempt to get organized. Yeah…