From Ablog to Grailbox

After some discussion with Apress, I’ve decided to move my blog from there to here. Many thanks to Apress for hosting my blog all these years. We must still like each other, too, because not only do I fill my shelves and my nook with all kinds of Apress titles, but I’m finally writing a second book for them. Details to come soon.

Many thanks to Pete Aylward at Apress for helping me move my content from there to here. We had an adventure, as the version of WordPress running Ablog didn’t have an export feature. Pete exported my entries as a CSV, and I converted them to a WXR (WordPress eXport Record, if memory serves) and imported them. I had some trouble finding a WXR spec, until I realized I had WordPress running and able to export entries, so I created a couple of dummy entries (yeah, yeah, I know — ALL of my entries are dummy entries) and exported them to a WXR file. From there, I was able to reverse engineer the format, write a Ruby program to convert the data, and I was good to go. As you look at past entries, you’ll find them out of order chronologically, so I put an original post date on them and was satisfied. You’ll also find some formatting glitches that I may or may not fix eventually . . . .

Thanks for stopping by!