Comments on: No Blogging Solution for this Yet

By: Erik J. Barzeski

Erik J. Barzeski — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 14:12:29 +0000

It doesn't use WordPress because I despise the UI and dislike its feature set. Same reasons I might not use software of any kind.

By: karl

karl — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 09:48:06 +0000

I've always wondered, why doesn't this site use wordPress? Is there a limitation that it has I have yet to run into? Is it that you've got one solution that's set up and there is no need to fix what's not broke?

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 18:32:06 +0000

As Kevin wrote, next time you need to stuff something into blog entries, try using perl, php, or even shell scripting to scrape the static files and generate a Movable Type "import" file ( http://www.movabletype.org/docs/mtimport.html ) I did that to scrape my oldest blog archives (pre-blogger hand-coded HTML) and pipe them into a WordPress archive. It's not too bad. Of course, the AppleScript solution can be just as handy. I had tried that for the same task but I'm a lousy AppleScripter.

By: Kevin Francis

Kevin Francis — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 13:07:18 +0000

I'd just write a perl or php script leveraging the internal CMSs own functions to migrate stuff. As for images, I'd just regex replace the prefix domain or whatnot and re-upload them by hand.

By: Erik J. Barzeski

Erik J. Barzeski — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 20:15:44 +0000

Update: It took two hours. I hacked around with AppleScripts, some of the built-in stuff in the Finder, and glommed together a solution. It was worth the 30 minutes I spent creating all of this stuff because I had such a large project to do.

It would not be worth it for an individual effort here and there, so the above two points, I feel, are still valid.