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January 23, 2009
Friday
 
 
A possible interruption to the rant-flow at Samizdata.net
Perry de Havilland (London)  Administrative

This weekend, if all goes well, the bloated monstrosity that is Samizdata's back-end, all 11,000+ articles and 182,000+ comments (hopefully) will get dumped into a new CMS.

I fully expect all manner of server burps, devoured articles and comments and sundry debugging issues will crop up but we will try to keep the disruption to our crazed rants and your edification to a minimum. Wish us luck.

Comments

Daisy, Daisy...


Posted by Nick M at January 23, 2009 03:15 AM

What CMS are you moving to? Personally, I prefer Wordpress for blogging, you should definitely consider it if you haven't already. Anyway, good luck with the move, I know it can be a pain to move sometimes :)

By the way, I sent you an email a few days ago, please check it if you get the time.

Thanks,
Mike


Posted by Mike at January 23, 2009 04:24 AM

Yes, yes! What CMS???


Posted by Tim at January 23, 2009 04:45 AM

Luck wished Samizdata...this place is like an isle of sanity amongst the storm of the internet....


Posted by Tman at January 23, 2009 05:23 AM

I prefer Wordpress for blogging, you should definitely consider it if you haven't already.

If they are this close to the migration, I really do sincerely hope that the decision on which CMS has already been made.


Posted by CountingCats at January 23, 2009 05:40 AM

Does this mean that there will be RSS for comments? Fingers crossed and good luck.


Posted by Alisa at January 23, 2009 08:46 AM

Sir Humphrey would, of course, consider this issue of possible devoured articles and comments to be an opportunity not a problem:

Hacker [reading]: "This file contains the complete set of papers, except for a number of secret documents, a few others which are part of still active files, a few others lost in the flood of 1967.
"Was 1967 a particularly bad winter?"
Sir Humphrey: "No, a marvellous winter, we lost no end of embarrassing files."


Posted by WillS at January 23, 2009 12:43 PM

Luck is for children and amateurs.

I would however recommend you have a goat and a black-handled knife on hand for when nothing is talking to anything else.


Posted by Adrian Ramsey at January 23, 2009 01:56 PM

The server already has a double circle of salt around it and we have more than a dozen nervous goats tethered nearby via old USB cables. The work is being illuminated by a Hand of Glory just to be on the safe side.


Posted by Perry de Havilland at January 23, 2009 05:18 PM

Crazed rants? "Polite irritation" is more like it.


Posted by Kim du Toit at January 23, 2009 07:18 PM

Crazed rants? "Polite irritation" is more like it.

Heh heh. Could anyone other than Kim say that with a straight face?


Posted by Eric at January 23, 2009 09:00 PM

Never fear, I always keep my athame handy, as well as work skyclad.

And to answer the above queries, Wordpress it is, yes.


Posted by Sekimori at January 23, 2009 09:24 PM

Ah, Sekimori, do you follow the way of Great Teacher Largo?


Posted by Adrian Ramsey at January 24, 2009 04:25 PM
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