poocs.net going typo April 3rd

poocs.net and its German counterpart are officially powered by typo as of today.

Tobias’ weblog engine is getting more and more mature every day. Just recently he added both Ajax powered comments and beautiful permalinks.

With the recent trackback spam attacks and all the comment spam issues surrounding blog market leader Movable Type it seems to be the time to opt for the underdog (again?).

That, plus typo is powered by the oh-so-joyful Rails web framework. Compared to my rusty Perl knowledge this puts me into the driver seat for tweaking the blog under the hood again.

1. First job done

I came up with a migration script to squeeze your Movable Type blog data into the typo database scheme for an almost transparent switching experience. The script is available here, just stick it into your `TYPODIR/scripts` folder and run it with `—help` to get an explanation for the command line parameters. If you’re ready to run it, be sure to run it against the proper environment:

1. RAILS_ENV=production ruby scripts/mt3.rb—blog-id=1—db=poocs_mt

For now, the script converts categories, entries, trackbacks, comments, and entry associations with categories. Everything’s preserved timestamp wise. Since typo only supports single authors (well, yes, married authors too..) it does not touch the authors. It does support importing from several MT blogs within a single installation though.

If you have any questions, drop me an email at scoop (at) this domain.