General – Page 3 – Wanderings

Progress

joe February 18, 2010 General, News

Back when I changed my blog software to Simple PHP Blog (see this POST). I thought it was the most fantastic thing running on my web server (other than my web pages). Especially after “Bloxsom”. Even then, it looked like the developer was still working on improvements, since there was a forum and other discussion groups. That turned out to not be the case when I started looking for some updates in early January 2010.

The software was still listed on SourceForge (the open source repository for software), but all links to the author or forums gave blank pages. Even messages directly to the author and others on his development team got no response.

And so the search began for a replacement. Did find another blog software that used “flat files” to store the information (you can read those with a text editor and don’t have to manage a database). Before jumping, I emailed the developer, and he actually responded and said that due to his work constraints, he had stopped development. He did recommend another blog software, but after checking it out, I kept looking.

Finally bit the bullet after discovering that WordPress would run on my server, and never turned back from that point. Both my blogs are up and running, although there is still some cleanup of my posts that needs to be done on this blog.

Looking forward to many years of posting all kinds of stuff – check out “ABOUT”

Welcome Back!

joe February 15, 2010 General

Finally, this blog is back in service. Still working on correcting the ‘code’ in some posts, and updating categories (the import did not put in categories), but by and large, Wanderings is back! Even managed to figure out what size the picture at the top had to be. Surprised my self at how easy it was to get the required size info. All of this happening as I continue to hone my Windows 7 skills (that’s another story) after upgrading my main PC. Still have to convert/import my technical blog to WordPress. Won’t be using the same theme, so that will generate some angst during the conversion.

Success!

joe February 15, 2010 General HeidiSQL, phpMyAdmin, WordPress

At last, the conversion from my old blogging software to WordPress is complete. Well, almost…Seems that some links need to be corrected in the imported posts, and there there is the cleanup that had to happen. Most of it was accomplished before import with a text editor and some other tools like HeidiSQL or phpMyAdmin. Both are tools that let me work directly on the database. With 230+ post imported, there was no way I want my fingers to do all the typing. Even managed to get the pictures imported and put back in the posts. Enjoy!