Switching to WordPress

After a few years of using Mephisto, the Ruby on Rails blog system, I’m back on WordPress. Sorry RoR peeps, but it’s a lot easier and more fully featured…

I’m using Lucia’s Link Love, so after a certain number of comments, you will receive dofollow link love! (NOTE: sexual healing is playing right now at the coffee shop I’m working from… coincidence? ;) )

Enjoy the new blog. I’ll probably make a few other changes to it, but I want to keep it simple. Thanks for visiting!

Here are some resources that helped me get started:

Posted July 9th, 2009 at 6:25 pm in Random | Permalink

4 comments:

  1. Steven Haddox:

    Nothing to be ashamed of. I remember when I was an active Plone developer (that was _all_ I did at the time), I felt like a cheater moving my blog to WordPress, but it was simply the best option for a blog platform at the time (and I feel it still is, although there are some good competitors). Use the best tool for the job is what I say.

    Looking forward to your future posts as usual :)

    July 10th, 2009 at 4:21 am
  2. Chuck Reynolds:

    Hey man great! WordPress is awesome (obviously I use it a lot lol) but glad to see you back over to WP.

    Look at Hobo Web’s fork of Link Love plugin… he’s tweaking it out a bit and I’m already using it for me and a few client blogs:
    http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/seo-blog/index.php/hobo-custom-link-love-for-wordpress/

    July 10th, 2009 at 11:20 am
  3. Ben Atkin:

    Whatever gets you blogging more. :)

    I’ve been using WordPress since 2005. When I started using it, I used the Dreamhost one-click install. Since then, it’s been moved to MediaTemple, Linode, and finally Slicehost. It works, and it’s free.

    Still, I think it would be fun to write a blog engine of my own, and use that. And I don’t think I’d be missing a whole lot of I did that.

    BTW, where’s your tag cloud? :) Do you plan to use both tags and categories? I’m only using tags, but the hierarchical categories are kinda neat.

    July 10th, 2009 at 11:59 am
  4. Curtis Miller:

    @Steven and @Ben thanks for the encouragement to blog again. Took quite a long break to help Flatterline get going, but I want to write again :)

    @Chuck Thanks, man! WordPress has come a long way since I used it. I tried to install the Hobo Web plugin, but it gave me an error on activation…

    @Ben right now I’m only planning to use categories. I want to limit myself to some specific things I’ll write about. If it doesn’t fit into one of the specific categories, then it goes into Random category.

    July 12th, 2009 at 3:03 pm

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