it's official, the new blog again!
I am posting from the new stuff. Freak'n finally. It's amazing how long things web projects take. I think a good chunk of the problem was that I didn't know exactly what I wanted up front. It took quite a bit of exploring to find what I wanted.
Quite often I look at a project and spend a bunch of effort in doing the minimal effort possible. I do this not because I am lazy, but more because I know that you don't really know what you want until you actually put effort into something. I think that I am going to modify this process a bit. I think that I spend too much time minimizing. What usually ends up happening is that I want something real. Not some subset of a project. So my minimizing actually ends up going to waste.
I think its a good low cost and let's keep thing visible process, but I may push it too far.
Anyway.. I think this transition may actually have gone semi-smoothly. I switched the rss feed last night as you might of noticed. I just put up some posts that I had not transferred yet.. That's what you are getting in your feed.
I am glad that I did this project. I always hated the fact that I did not write my own blog software. Everything else just pisses me off. Web developers in general really are shitty, shitty programmers. They sure are good at over-complicating things.
So being in control and actually not having layers and layers of shit in between me and my posts is already have extra benefits. I had to make a google sitemap Here's mine yesterday and it took all of 10 minutes. I looked at the google and other 3rd party tools for it and I was like.. wtf? Again, way too overcomplicated
Things are not done here. I have image uploading kinda working (with auto-thumbnails) and I still need to figure out a decent ui for it. My goal is to take all of the pain away from adding pics and videos to my posts. Right now the process is terrible. (Let's see how much luck I have compiling mencoder on the server!)
yeah.. those escapes are annoying, i'll get on that tonight.