Posts Tagged ‘typo’

Another blog chapter ends

// January 19th, 2007 // 6 Comments » // On the Radar

With a fond good-bye I have left [typo](http://www.typosphere.org/) for [wordpress](http://www.wordpress.net). It really is fond because I enjoyed what typo brought to the scene. It’s amazing blip on the radar at a time when RoR was taking off and the things it employed were beyond anything before it. Unfortunately the talented gang of developers has dwindled and the ones who are there are very busy with real world projects. I wish them nothing but the best, thank them for all the help they’ve lent me over the years, and hope to see them continue to develop interesting and forward looking ideas.

The conversion to [Wordpress](http://www.wordpress.net) wasn’t extremely difficult but then again I don’t know many who would have gotten through it unscathed. The typo db had changed a bit and I had to get some help on what things to alter to an aging migration sql scripts to run right. That was the difficult part. It took about 10 hours to get to this point. Most of it in trying to get things to work how I wanted, or learn what they really wanted. Early relationship stuff.

Using this CMS has been very nice with [tiger](http://orderedlist.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-tiger-administration/) administration changes, the widgets panel, and some very talented theme developers for me to work off of. I’ve gotten comfortable while blogging for [Nuance Labs](http://blog.nuancelabs.com) and it made me jealous enough to put the elbow grease in the last couple days.

I’ve probably got a little more work to do and some surprises to get through before I’m satisfied but let me know what you think!

-a

Typo 4.0 Upgrade

// August 8th, 2006 // 2 Comments » // On the Radar

Phew. That took a bit more time than it [should have](http://www.typosphere.org/trac/wiki/DownloadStable). I think everything is back to normal. If you see otherwise let me know. Sorry for the downtime.

For those that are technically inclined I was running a trunk version of [typo](http://www.typosphere.org) 2.6 out of subversion. It was rather dated and much had changed. The new way you install [typo](http://www.typosphere.org) is via ruby gems which takes a mountain of work out of it. The two were not really compatible due to the age disparity, and method of prior installation, _and_ the amount of hackery I had done. It exploded in the middle of migration and it required me to [ask for help](http://www.mail-archive.com/typo-list@rubyforge.org/msg02937.html) and recache what I knew of this side of the system.

I’m just glad I backed up my database.

In the end I tried lots of things until the [list]([ask for help](http://www.mail-archive.com/typo-list@rubyforge.org/msg02937.html) and Jeff told me to basically clean it all away, start from the beginning, reimport my database and watch the magic that is ‘rake migrate’ do its thing….and it did.

Thanks to those who helped!

-a

New Face, New Engine, Typo

// January 13th, 2006 // Comments Off // On the Radar

This post brought to you by our friends at [Typo](http://typo.leetsoft.com). Typo is a Ruby on Rails project and after [Jeff](http://wheeledone.com)’s recommendation and giving it a quick tour I enjoyed what I saw. I quickly established a theme, modifed said theme, and in shorter order than I’ve ever had before, am here.

New face and new engine underneath. All of my MovableType data has been ported rather effectively. If you find errors please let me know.

-a