Tom Moertel's Weblog: I have moved my blog over to Typo

I have moved my blog over to Typo

Tom Moertel — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:41:00 -0400

SnipSnap no longer makes me happy, and I am switching my weblog over to the Typo weblog system and moving it to blog.moertel.com. I like Rails, and Typo is Rails-based coding at its finest. And Typo has a future. Besides, I want another opportunity to take a perfectly good website theme and destroy it with my utter lack of design acumen.

As far as content goes, I will move my old posts over as time permits. For now, you can read them on the old site, which will remain up. (The Community Projects are still hosted there.)

If you are subscribed to my old feeds, don’t worry: Apache trickery will automagically redirect your RSS reader to my new feeds here. If fact, if you are reading this, you are already getting the new stuff.

—Tom

"I have moved my blog over to Typo" by Tom Moertel

Thu, 13 Apr 2006 08:34:58 -0400

eliott, yes, I am running on SQLite3. If you want to do the same, be sure to follow why’s advice on installing sqlite3-ruby.

Cheers,
Tom

"I have moved my blog over to Typo" by eliott

Thu, 13 Apr 2006 02:45:54 -0400

Tom, are you still running on sqlite? I have been considering using sqlite. Right now, I am using postgres, but a new host has no postgres support. I am thinking of using sqlite instead of mysql (I have had very bad experiences with mysql, and hope to never use it again).

Thanks for any info.

"I have moved my blog over to Typo" by Tom Moertel

Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:44:47 -0400

Brian, I’m running this instance of typo on SQLite. The only thing the SQLite backend lacks is support for “migrations,” and that deficiency has already been remedied in the Rails development tree and should be in a public release soon, before I need it.

I did use the SnipSnap file-based backend but never took advantage of it beyond making backups, and it was annoying in other ways. Rails’s SQLite backend meets the easy-backup need, but it doesn’t have the other annoyances.

Moving my blog to Typo has been a clear improvement in almost all regards.

"I have moved my blog over to Typo" by Brian McCallister

Fri, 26 Aug 2005 06:44:00 -0400

I have thought about type as well, but really like file-based backend =(

"I have moved my blog over to Typo" by Tom Moertel

Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:02:34 -0400

That, my friend, is espresso – the good stuff that keeps me going.

"I have moved my blog over to Typo" by topfunky

Fri, 26 Aug 2005 00:46:04 -0400

Nice theme! But is that coffee or hot chocolate?