Rambling for the Masses

Disqus!

Sputts — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:19:00 +0000

So I opted for using Disqus for the comment system here. Hopefully, this means I can interact more and people can comment on what I post, we’ll see.

Do you see this? Themish!

Sputts — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:36:03 +0000

That’s right folks! We’ve got a bit of a less vanilla theme, though Im still wondering if I should integrate Got Rave?!?’s full theme into this, as I am really toying with the idea of scrapping my homebrew backend and use something tried and true. Which would mean yet another redesign, but that is a rant for another day. Just be assured that activity is here, and hopefully will be for a while to come.

I know I did mention using something to allow you to use your Facebook login here. It’s coming, I just haven’t decided what solution to use yet and haven’t really sat down to play with them yet. One day soon though!

Whoa! Posts!

Sputts — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:18:29 +0000

No really there have been some recent posts in my journals! Honest, look! Well at lot more than at my main website, which by the way has had a major backend overhaul. So we should see some updates there soon. Anyway the point is there has been activity and I haven’t given up on this blog site yet, and better yet, Im gonna try a Facebook plugin so you can use your facebook login to post comments. Keep a look out for that.

(edit) We also just updated WP, so if you find any problems contact me.

Is it dead?!?

Sputts — Thu, 06 May 2010 19:16:29 +0000

No I think not! I normally start a project and lose interest after a couple months, but this one has me intrigued, so hopefully I will have a hand made theme soon enough, and have content posted on my personal blogs in this space. But we shall see, I think the migration took a lot out of me and I just wasn’t up to doing much here afterwards, I think I will be installing Joomla on the main site, so I’ll probably amble back over here and do some development, we’ll see. Keep your eyes open!

Welcome to Blogs.got-rave.com!!!

The Boss — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:58:49 +0000

Welcome to Blogs.got-rave.com!!!
This is our new platform since Lyceum never seemed to work correctly as far as comments and has slowed down to almost nothing as far as developement. I chose Lyceum because of their database structure, so now I need to learn something new it seems! So welcome and enjoy your visit!

On a more woohoo moment, I just finished the migration a full 5 hours after I started. Of course this included:

backing up all the blogs from the old install
removing the lyceum install
setting up WPMU
getting the new users and empty blogs set up
importing the old blogs
realizing I had botched one of the backups
reinstalling the only lyceum install in a back up directory and tweaking it to export the blog
realizing the pages did not export
hand copied the pages for all blogs to WPMU
deleted the backup install
slapped my forehead when I realized I didn’t get all the links from the blogs
just look at the DB rather than reinstalling
got most blogs settled, yay!
Started trying to get the main page of Rambling for the masses to display what I wanted
Learned way more about WP functions than I wanted to in one day
Hacked some PHP together to get what I wanted
Sat back and congratulated myself on a job well done
Tested my loud twitter feed, it was good.
Having a post install drink, should probably go to bed

Wow, no wonder I feel like I was programming for my Visual C++ class again. Welp I hope it stays working for a while, so I can mark another WooHoo moment, that of keeping this thing alive. Who knows, I might actually use it now that people can comment.