tags: Movable Type
2007
August
- 2007 Aug 14
- back to the beginning
Mephisto broke for some reason. It may have been the plugin that I was experimenting with. But even when I took it out again, it stayed broken. I kept getting the dreaded 500 error. So I did a clean re-install. The blog itself is now still accessible (although I moved it to chaosanddisorder.net.) But I can’t get into the admin page.
· Read more… - 2007 Aug 15
- fubar. snafu.
So apparently it was all Dreamhost’s fault. Both Mephisto and Movable Type are working at reasonable speeds. I still stand by the notion that Dreamhost really can’t handle Ruby on Rails very well. I’m looking into switching to (or at least adding on) a different shared host. Site5 looks promising.
· Read more… - 2007 Aug 15
- that heat, that heat, that heat
Pardon my French, but it’s hotter than a motherfucker out there. This wouldn’t be a big deal at all if I actually had air-conditioning. I’m actually contemplating the idea of renting a hotel room just so I can turn the thermostat to 55 degrees and chill. Literally.
· Read more… - 2007 Aug 16
- like a whelk in a supernova (scattered thoughts continue)
Well. It’s hot. What can I say. I’ve spent the entire day floating from cafe to cafe because I couldn’t stand being inside my air-conditionless apartment. (I really dug Influx Cafe, and they even have free wi-fi!) After that I even headed over to Fry’s (after almost getting into an accident after a guy popped a tire on the freeway and nearly rammed me as he headed to the shoulder) and contemplated buying a portable air-conditioner. But seeing as how I don’t have $399, I ended up leaving empty-handed.
· Read more… - 2007 Aug 17
- trying to convert atom to something MT can read
I contemplated the idea of simpling writing an XSL stylesheet to convert Atom to WXR because this is one of the formats that MT can import. But unfortunately there is no codified spec for WXR, so I have no idea which elements I can safely ignore. And I don’t want to comb through the WXR-to-MT plugin to figure out what MT is actually reading (although I may end up doing this anyway.)
· Read more… - 2007 Aug 17
- perl script for converting atom to MT import format
Ideally, this should probably be a plugin that uses the MT API, but this little bit of kludgery seems to do the trick. Be forewarned, I used a lot of perl modules that may be non-standard.
· Read more… - 2007 Aug 20
- indecision
The problem I’m having with Movable Type is I don’t like how the permalinks work. Since using Blosxom, I’ve grown accustomed to permalinks of the type such as
· Read more…http://domain.name/yyyy/mm/dd/slug, which happens to be the default format of Wordpress and Mephisto. (This was actually one of the reasons I wasn’t fond of Typo, because of the it inserts the wordarticlebetween the domain name and the year. I found this unnecessarily crufty.)
2015
November
- 2015 Nov 13
- Precursor to YAML
As I continue to migrate Mephisto posts to Jekyll, I stumbled upon this Perl script I wrote to help me move blog entries from the venerable Movable Type blog engine (see Wikipedia entry) to Mephisto.
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