Blog back online

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Well, the blog is back online. And it only took me a year and 5 months! I’m now running under WordPress. I’d be using MvBlog, but it’s not as mature as I need yet. WordPress offers lots of plugins such as Wiki-style editing and syntax color highlighting; two things I absolutely need.

Converting all my old blog entries was quite a challenge. I wrote a little script which read from the old database, converted some stuff and then wrote them back into the wordpress database. For some reason though, the inserted entries would not list. It took me almost 15 minutes to figure out that I had written post_status = 'published' instead of post_status = 'publish'. Whoops! Then I couldn’t get source code from my old log to display properly in the WordPress log, so I had to write some more converters that mangled the old BBCode I used to use in my old blog before converting it to WordPress.

Ah well, it’s up and running now, and I hope I’ll find some time to actually write articles for this thing.

Update: Wow! WordPress’ editor really really SUCKS! It’s basically impossible to get quotes in there right. It doesn’t allow me to use my remote editor (Vim), unless I’m on the code tab. It keeps removing spaces, empty lines I insert, tags it doesn’t know, etc. This is one bad piece of shit. I’ll probably get used to it though.