Octopress is great Uses Google to provide site search Archives builtin Tag support Draft posts Local preview Markdown markup Google+, Disqus, Google Analytics support Incremental deployment Deployment to Amazon S3 Fast as lightning Wish I’d bitten the bullet earlier.
This is my first post in Octopress. The text uses Markdown which is marvellous. My favourite blogging platforms are: Octopress Habari Drupal WordPress The BBC is a popular Web site. End of message.
Loose thoughts on the plan of attack for the blog migration: Install Octopress locally Configure S3 and install a dummy Web site. Use’s3cmd’ to upload test site to Amazon S3 Test incremental uploads. This is a firm requirement. Full database backup of existing Drupal blog Take backup of Drupal installation (additional modules, scripts). Install vanilla Drupal 7 locally. Install copy of the existing Dupal blog in local version (overwrite database ?...
I am a veteran of blog migrations with the scars to prove it. Here is a handy ‘cut out and keep’ checklist of the important things I normally forget: Permalink structure. Try to preserve the existing permalink structure to save hours of pain. This is particularly important when using Disqus (although there is a URL migration utility for Disqus). Typically, I like to have ‘Archives’, ‘About’ and a ‘Contact’ page. Tag support including a ‘Tags’ page....
My Web hosting package (provided by Bluehost) expires in October. As this blog is essentially dead (the last post was a one-liner 8 months ago), the sensible and logical thing to do would be to kill the blog and save £5 a month. Originally I purchased the domain name ’nbrightside.com’ and the Web hosting for a couple of reasons: I wanted to use self hosted WordPress without some of the restrictions imposed by WordPress....
Time to upgrade Drupal again. Yesterday version 7.12 was released and this blog is currently running a very outdated (and probably insecure) 7.4. Although Drupal 7 included automatic update for modules and themes, updating the core Drupal software still needs manual intervention and takes time. Over the years, the main self-hosted blog platforms I have used are: WordPress - one-click updates. Quick and easy. By far the best and most robust solution....
I think it is entirely right and proper that Sir Fred Goodwin has been stripped of his knighthood. After all, I am a shareholder in the Royal Bank of Scotland and his incompetence has cost me a significant amount of money and pushed back my retirement age to 87. In fact, why stop there ? Personally, I find it objectionable that Freddie’s surname includes the word ‘Good’. This man is not good - in fact, he is a very bad man so I suggest he should henceforth be known as ‘Fred Win’....
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This is part 2 of an interview with Kathryn and Daniel from ‘I Am Not Left Handed’. The first part ‘That Was Then’ is available here. This might seem like (another) weird question but then again I am slightly weird myself. I realise you’re a relatively young band but are they any songs of your own that you don’t like and would not contemplate playing live ? Maybe early songs that you have now outgrown....
OK - let’s get the boring stuff out of the way. How did you all meet and form the band ? Please don’t tell me you posted an ad in ‘Melody Maker’. D: Kathryn and I met in Dublin, we were working on a summer course together. We both played in different bands at the time, I was fronting my own band, Coyote Blue, and Kathryn was playing keys and singing backing vocals with some friends of hers....