Tue, 04 Aug 2009

Colophon

A note on the new blog format. I've opted for simplicity and changed from Wordpress to PyBlosxom. Wordpress is great, but I found my normal workflow (pretty much all shell and Emacs) conflicted with the web interface. This took a bit more effort to setup, but the ease of use is worth it. You might be interested in the plugins I'm using:

I also wrote a couple of shell scripts, one to publish the posts from a staging directory, and another to save or restore the post mtimes, so I can edit old entries and still preserve the original blog order. I converted old site from its dynamic form to a static one, using wget and Perl's wonderful regular expression engine. That served two purposes - it meant that the pages are now served much more quickly while the original URLs are preserved for the search engines.

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