It's Alive!

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:49:02 GMT  <== Lisplog ==> 

This is my first post created with my new blogging software Lisplog. Everything should be pretty much as it used to be, except for the new appearance, two columns instead of three, and it should respond faster, to regular access, Apache serving static files, and to comments, which have a new, hopefully easier, captcha mechanism.

If you had an account before, you should still have it, and that will still allow you to post comments without captcha or moderation. If you don't yet have an account, you can't get one right now, until I write that code, but you CAN post comments, which will appear after I moderate them.

Lisplog, FTW!

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And I like it, too!

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:03:17 GMT

And I like it, too! Creating new posts and editing comments is much faster than before. We'll see how my new captcha works, but my new comment moderation page makes it very fast to delete lots of comments all at once.

I'll be creating a banners page, to replace the old left-column banners, and updating the FAQ page to match the new order. Real soon now™

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I DID decide to use Google Reader

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sun, 05 Jun 2011 13:02:05 GMT

I DID decide to use Google Reader for my news aggregator. The public page is available from the "news aggregator" link in the "Navigation" section of the left sidebar.

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Congratulations!

Submitted by Faré on Sun, 05 Jun 2011 16:33:36 GMT

Looking forward to using it myself.

Any hints on importing data from a previous blog?

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I converted my blog

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sun, 05 Jun 2011 16:44:25 GMT

Faré, I converted my previous blog by exporting the Drupal tables as comma-separated-value files (with PHPMyAdmin) and converting them to Lisplog format with the functions in csv.lisp. It was my success with that that motivated me to continue with the dynamic server.

If your blog is in another format, or a newer version of Drupal, that code won't won't work, but it shouldn't be all the difficult to write your own versions. The conversion process needs to be generalized, with plugins for at least Drupal and Wordpress, probably via a live MySQL server link, instead of the hand export mechanism I used.

Looks like I still have some character encoding issues to fix, too. I tried to put the accent on the "e" in your name, and it failed, though it worked in your post.

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Later... I fixed the character encoding problems, so now I can spell Faré's name correctly.

I can even use obscure unicode characters like Malayalam letter A (U+0D05): അ അ അ

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Check-in

Submitted by Junker on Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:14:28 GMT

I'm here too. it is good to see someone roll their own.
Too little of that in these lazy, hazy days,

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