hacking for fun
So I'm working on migrating my other blog away from LiveJournal, because LJ kind of sucks for public blogs. Requiring everyone who wants to comment to register, or show up as "Anonymous," is a barrier to entry that few have the motivation to bother overcoming.
I've got a Serendipity blog up and running, everything seems fine, now I'm just working on importing all the old entries and comments to maintain a single seamless whole. That's going along pretty well, actually, I've got all the posts migrated thanks to Serendipity's only-slightly-outdated LJ import tool. I had to tweak the code a bit, as the XML LiveJournal exports has changed a little, but nothing too terrible (and part of it was just that S9y's import code was skipping part of the "parse XML" step).
Between coding, data munging, experiments, and the annoying process of deleting all blog entries every time the import screwed up, I've pretty much consumed the entire day. Now I'm getting tired of working in a tiny SSH window, but I've got a solid idea of what I need to write to get comment importing working.
TRAMP to the rescue! Between Emacs' TRAMP and PuTTY plink, I can do the rest of the code work on my local machine with the big monitors and mouse, knowing all my saved files are where they need to be and never even noticing how completely secure the whole set up is.
I've got a Serendipity blog up and running, everything seems fine, now I'm just working on importing all the old entries and comments to maintain a single seamless whole. That's going along pretty well, actually, I've got all the posts migrated thanks to Serendipity's only-slightly-outdated LJ import tool. I had to tweak the code a bit, as the XML LiveJournal exports has changed a little, but nothing too terrible (and part of it was just that S9y's import code was skipping part of the "parse XML" step).
Between coding, data munging, experiments, and the annoying process of deleting all blog entries every time the import screwed up, I've pretty much consumed the entire day. Now I'm getting tired of working in a tiny SSH window, but I've got a solid idea of what I need to write to get comment importing working.
TRAMP to the rescue! Between Emacs' TRAMP and PuTTY plink, I can do the rest of the code work on my local machine with the big monitors and mouse, knowing all my saved files are where they need to be and never even noticing how completely secure the whole set up is.