Wordpress

This post has been in my “TODO list” long enough. It’s time to put it in words. Let’s go! As you probably know, I decided to give up Wordpress.org in favour of Bloggart on App Engine. A great choice so far I must say. Migration, a proper one What I wanted to achieve My aim was to migrate more than 6 years of content (posts and comments) from my previous blog at detronizator.org into a bloggart installation. Why bloggart? Nick Johnson, the original author of Bloggart on Appengine, wrote a series of article on how to build a nice, little, smart blogging app on App Engine. At the same time, work on txty.mobi started to get more and more engaging, making me a lover (and advocate) of Google App Engine. Plus, I was interested in “starting from scratch”: Wordpress.org is a great project, but I just didn’t feel it “mine enough”. My blog must feel really mine: it’s about me after all. ...

1 $ echo "Hello World!" This is my first post from a whole new backend. Yes, I’m leaving the underperforming and unreliable Bluehost Hosting for a scalable, distributed, load-balanced, reliable, powerful platform. I’m going Google. I’m moving to App Engine. To make App Engine serve my purpose, I picked a small, cute, interesting project to do the job: Bloggart, made by brilliant Arachnid (Nick Johnson). The old posts you ask? Yes, I’m working on a strategy for that. Most probably will work a bit on Bloggart to welcome my Wordpress’s data, and use the App Engine Bulk Loader. Of course, there will be quite few bumps on the way: Bloggart is not Wordpress. I’m sure there will be tons of features that will be left out. But Bloggart and App Engine suite my primary purpose: Speeeeeed. In fact, I recommend you take a good look at this series of article on Nick’s blog where he goes step-by-step through the development of his project: really cool stuff. ...

What’s Tweetable? It’s a plugin that integrates Twitter into my blog.

Another update for Detronizator.org’s theme. Say hello to “The Journalist”, from Lucian E. Marin. Great job Lucian! ;-)

Yes, still experimenting with Themes. This one is “Emplode”, by arcsin.se. A little bit more classic than the previous one. I like it’s clean and slick style, but with classic and “paper-ish” colors. Let’s see if it last or I change my mind again.

Yes, I did it. Finally. It was on my todo-list since last year and I decided, in this moment of confusion and 100 things to do, to update. Why? Because Wordpress 2.7 was released recently, and I decided that I was “late enough”. Codename of this release? “Coltrane”! Yes, like [en:John Coltrane] ;-) . Update: And this update comes from my iPhone! I can finally use the WordPress app.