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Regular blog here, 'microblog' there

Many of my traditional blog post live on this site, but a great majority of my social-style posts can be found on my much-busier microbloging site at updates.passthejoe.net. It's busier because my BlogPoster "microblogging" script generates short, Twitter-style posts from the Linux or Windows (or anywhere you can run Ruby with too many Gems) command line, uploads them to the web server and send them out on my Twitter and Mastodon feeds.

I used to post to this blog via scripts and Unix/Linux utilities (curl and Unison) that helped me mirror the files locally and on the server. Since this site recently moved hosts, none of that is set up. I'm just using SFTP and SSH to write posts and manage the site.

Disqus comments are not live just yet because I'm not sure about what I'm going to do for the domain on this site. I'll probably restore the old domain at first just to have some continuity, but for now I like using the "free" domain from this site's new host, NearlyFreeSpeech.net.

Tue, 15 Nov 2011

Moving from one blogging platform to another can be painful

I'm in the process of moving the entries from my old Debian blog running on FlatPress to this blog running on Ode.

It's not a seamless process. I'm trying to retain the comments in FlatPress, and I also want the images to come along with the entries, so that means I need to copy/paste/code each entry as it's brought from one blog to the other. I might be able to speed this up by using the flat files in FlatPress to create the flat files in Ode, but each comment is in its own file, and the amount of copy/pasting in that case would rise with each comment. Plus I don't want the same HTML tagging that FlatPress uses.

I'm slowly moving the entries, and once I finish and get them to all show up at http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/linux/debian/, I'll shut down the old Debian blog.

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Posted: Nov 15, 2011 3:25pm UTC

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Sat, 12 Nov 2011

A great blog post on how to program from one of the giants in the Perl community

Chromatic, author of "Modern Perl," writes in a recent blog post anybody interested in programming should read, How to Learn Perl, these words to live by:

Find something that interests you. Find a way to automate it. Keep a list of changes or improvements or new techniques you might apply. Write down what you think about when you're commuting or walking or falling asleep or bathing. When you can't get it out of your head, break it into small pieces, test and experiment, and see what happens.

Programming well requires knowledge, certainly, but like anything else it requires passion to keep you practicing in a disciplined way. The resources I've mentioned here can give you knowledge and will help you develop your discipline. (They're not the only resources, but I believe they're great resources.) What's left is up to you.

Posted: Nov 12, 2011 10:03pm UTC

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