To those of you unfamiliar with blogging platforms, this entry will look like that indecipherable text you see on your blue screen of death. That being said, feel free to push the fast forward button here and skip to the last paragraph.
After years of using Movable Type to mange my blog, I have decided to move to WordPress. I should have migrated years ago however, it was considerably difficult to move my first blogging platform to Movable Type. Why move now? The decision to migrate to WordPress came down to a few things. First, making custom changes to Movable Type just wasn’t simple enough. It’s considerably easier to add a few lines of PHP code to files in WordPress. Second, WordPress has lots of third-party plugins. While there are a lot of cool plugins, large developer adoption is more important than the plugins themselves. Last, it took 20 minutes to switch, including importing/exporting data from Movable Type. I’m sure the merit of both platforms can be argued at length but I’ve been in technology long enough to know that if you want to create a robust platform, keep it simple, make it easily extensible and move fast.
Okay so, short story long – I will be moving the deck chairs around a bit. I will be re-releasing old entries and adding all the other content from my previous blog in the upcoming months. Stay tuned.
Thanks for some quality points there. I am kind of new to online , so I printed this off to put in my file, any better way to go about keeping track of it then printing?
@mT – I’m not sure I follow your question fully. If you would like to keep track of a this blog (and many others), you should subscribe to the RSS feed. Most feed readers offer the ability to print entries.