Migrated to WordPress

First of all, apologies for any ‘planet spam’ caused the change to my feeds.

After what seems like an eternity (but is actually just over a year) I’ve switched the backend of this site from Mephisto to WordPress. The main reason for the switch was my overall dissatisfaction with Mephisto coupled with its lack of development (or a least stable releases) along with the fact that I was maintaining a Ruby on Rails production environment for one application. Mephisto frustrated me in many ways, from its inability to handle archives/pagination to not being able to accept pingbacks to not working with external clients. All of these were fixable, but I really didn’t have the patience or the time.

Here is my tale of migrating from Mephisto to WordPress, and how I achieved it.

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Reborn!

It took me a while to do, but I’ve finally made good on my threat and switched from Typo to Mephisto. It wasn’t as easy as advertised, but I got there in the end (I’ll follow up on this at a later date – promise).

Breaking up is hard to do

This is the bit where I should point out all the good things about my blog engine of choice – Typo – before explaining to it that it’s not Typo’s fault, things just aren’t working out.

Stuff that.

Typo is good, but it is bloated and keeps dying on my server for no reason and I’ve had enough. Other RoR apps are ticking over quite nicely on this box, so why does Typo have an issue?

Sorry Typo, it’s not me – it’s you. Pack your bags and sling your hook.

Now to start trawling the classifieds to find a new blog engine before I succumb to temptation and write my own.

(This is a roundabout way of say that this site has been ** recently and I’m finally going to do something about it.)