Ditching Typo
Posted by Skrud at Wednesday, June 20th 2007 at 4:54pm
You may have noticed that the slick, fancy, skrud.net site has been reduced to the drab, default WordPress theme last week. What happened was that Typo had more or less stopped working. I was in Seattle, wanting to blog about my trip, and I couldn’t post anything. The new post page would hang, and the post would never happen. This is probably due mostly to the fact that Type was slow as molasses. It reached the point where it became a pain to write a new post, since the whole site was lagging. I think it’s mostly the fault of Ruby on Rails itself being fairly slow — compared to PHP. I’ve had a host of problems with Typo, as well. Weird little bugs that would crop up now and then and make me scratch my head in dumbfounded perplexion. And I only had 500 posts. Imagine if this was a blog with thousands or even millions of posts!
Wordpress takes only seconds to install and get running. So I dropped it in and wrote my posts directly into it. The next step is to import my old posts from Typo, which is a very annoying thing to do. There is a layout which renders Typo posts in Wordpress-WXR fomat for importing, but even with a ten minute timeout, it couldn’t render anything. Apparently 500 points is just too much for it to handle. I wrote some code to pull articles from the Typo API directly, and generate the XML file, but I’m having trouble getting it to import the comments as well. Then I’ll whip up a quick theme and make it not look so generic.
What I’d really like to do is take the time to build my own blogging platform. I’d also like to do it in .NET and C#, and ideally Silverlight. (Maybe I got a little brainwashed last week).
I think typo has died. Most rails ppl with blogs use mephisto (http://mephistoblog.com/).
WTF Dude, one week with MS and you wanna code in .NET?? Next you will be trading in your mac for a PC with Vista!!!!
Mephisto is alright. I tried using it for a while but had too many problems converting shit and I didn’t feel like learning their weird template engine.
But yeah, .NET is pretty sweet.
(And no freaking way am I ditching my Mac. Though I may get a MacBook Pro and install Vista thru BootCamp/Parallels).
I noticed the chnage on the blog format, figured it was so so you could make quicker updates while in seattle.
Only thing really bugging me was the lack of a link to the forum section :P Aprt from that, go with whatever formating fits your needs and likes the most.
who the the hell has a blog with MILLIONS of posts?
Someone could easily use a blog engine as a backup to a news system. An online “newspaper” or something could write their articles in a blog and format the page to make the articles look like newspaper entries.
s/backup/backend/g