Alhough this site will stay up for awhile, I won't be making any new posts here.
For the latest from "Eldapo" you'll need to go to
eldapo.lembobrothers.com
which is a new subdomain of mine set up on a shared host.
I'm still going through all the articles I recently exported from here to that new site, laboriously fixing the formatting of the substantial chunks of source code that are the real treasure this site has to offer, but after completing the conversion of another site this weekend I've decided that there's no time like the present to pick up and continue the work started here over there.
Hope you'll visit soon, and that the content made available there is useful to you.
from blogger to wordpress
Today was the day I decided to import this blog from Blogger into a copy of WordPress I have running on my new personal site, under the URL eldapo.lembobrothers.com.
While the import itself went smoothly (thanks to a slight hack to the blogger.php file under wp-admin/import (an instance of www2.blogger.com needed to be changed to www.blogger.com), after looking over the formatting of my articles I was disappointed to see that almost every section of text wrapped in the <code> and <pre> tags had been seriously screwed up. Some of the problem was due to the new application trying to be "helpful", completing tags before the code block was, well, complete. It also seemed to have a great deal of trouble getting linebreaks right. Given that eldapo.blogspot.com goes back around 3 years, with a total of 69 mostly code heavy pieces, this means that I’m going to have to go in a reformat almost every article by hand.
Now the thing is, that rendering big chunks of source code in Blogger was never a picnic. In fact, it's been downright aggravating. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like WordPress is going to be any easier. In fact, I’ve already experienced some of WP’s own eccentricities in this regard and I’m not pleased. There's something to be said for handcoding your own HTLM pages (sorry, I meant to say "XHTML").
Oh joy. Just what I needed. So much for easier, faster, better.
All applications suck. Blogging applications suck most.
(and my current theme in WP does full justification, and a really crummy job of it to boot -- kind of like WordStar for CP/M or IBM DisplayWrite on an old XT clone with a Hercules graphics card ... yuck!)
While the import itself went smoothly (thanks to a slight hack to the blogger.php file under wp-admin/import (an instance of www2.blogger.com needed to be changed to www.blogger.com), after looking over the formatting of my articles I was disappointed to see that almost every section of text wrapped in the <code> and <pre> tags had been seriously screwed up. Some of the problem was due to the new application trying to be "helpful", completing tags before the code block was, well, complete. It also seemed to have a great deal of trouble getting linebreaks right. Given that eldapo.blogspot.com goes back around 3 years, with a total of 69 mostly code heavy pieces, this means that I’m going to have to go in a reformat almost every article by hand.
Now the thing is, that rendering big chunks of source code in Blogger was never a picnic. In fact, it's been downright aggravating. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like WordPress is going to be any easier. In fact, I’ve already experienced some of WP’s own eccentricities in this regard and I’m not pleased. There's something to be said for handcoding your own HTLM pages (sorry, I meant to say "XHTML").
Oh joy. Just what I needed. So much for easier, faster, better.
All applications suck. Blogging applications suck most.
(and my current theme in WP does full justification, and a really crummy job of it to boot -- kind of like WordStar for CP/M or IBM DisplayWrite on an old XT clone with a Hercules graphics card ... yuck!)
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