Why developing your own blog software isn’t always a good idea
David Goodwin made the following comment on my post about migrating to WordPress:
Despite every ‘web2.0′ language/framework having a ‘create a blog application in 5 minutes’ example, it’s amusing to see even a developer default to Wordpress, which is still written for php4
I can see his point, and I agree that is amusing. Of course I’m not going to miss a chance to get on my soapbox though. 
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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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