Well, friends, it was inevitable. I hate static situations. Very soon, I’ll be moving this blog to “WordPress”, the excellent and highly-maintained blogging platform that is open-source and free for distribution and usage. For this blog, ever since its inception, I’ve used “COREBlog”, a plugin for the Zope webserver. It served me well, but there are two problems: first, its final version (prior to migrating to the “Plone” content management system) claims to be maintained by hasn’t changed in months. For a young open-source program like COREBlog, this is a bad sign. Second, I cannot migrate my Zope server to Plone, because some old classes are sitting around in my Zope server and prevent Plone from working. It’s a mess. Zope is a mess.
To move away from Zope, I’ve been slowly migrating toward Javascript, Python, and Apache. I’ve always used these elements, but given the direction the Web is moving it’s time to move with it. Zope is not the future. It’s not even the present. Apache, Javascript, XML – these are the present and likely the future.
Therefore, in the next week or so I’ll be migrating my blog to WordPress, and after that I’ll swap my new WordPress-based blog for this one. This COREblog-based blog will be relocated to:
http://steve.cooleysekula.net/coreblog
and the new WordPress blog will replace this one at http://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog. I’ll be migrating links, so that they point internally to the new blog system, and images. Hopefully, this transition will be transparent in terms of content, but beautiful in terms of quality of presentation. WordPress is truly wonderous, simple to install and use. I’m excited to be moving to something with a more active development community, and I look forward to you moving with me.
For you, the changes will be slight. If you’re using a blog aggregator to read my posts, you’ll need to point it to
http://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/?feed=rss2
instead of the previous RSS feed (http://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/rdf10_xml). In addition, WordPress will have a different mechanism for posting comments, which I have to learn about. Once the transition is complete, look for information in the WordPress-based blog on how to post comments. It should be much easier for me to approve comments than it was in COREBlog, which already makes me happy!
