Aral Balkan

Well, the migration script appears to have worked like a charm and I just forwarded the RSS feed so the aggregators should hopefully pick up this post and future ones without the need for human intervention (although, if any aggregator dude and dudettes are reading this, please feel free to update the name of the site when you get a moment!) :)

I have to say that the WordPress interface is lovely... yummy!

For the time being, I'm keeping the "you have to log in to comment" pain-in-the-neck, umm, feature but only until I get an API key and set up Akismet.

It's really late here so I'm going to clean up and release the migration script tomorrow, in case anyone else is still lingering on with a b2 install and wants to convert to the latest and greatest.

Oh, and yes, I know it's the default template... don't worry, it won't stay that way for long :) Evolution, not revolution, baby!

Update: FlashAnt should now be redirecting all requests to aralbalkan.com. All previous FlashAnt links should get translated properly. If you find something that isn't mapping over correctly, I'd really appreciate it if you could please let me know.

Comments

• Nice Aral! Good choice on the domain name. ;-) Anyway, Wordpress IS pretty cool, I just recently joined the world of blogging myself ( http://ff9900.org ); there's a whole lot to figure out. Anyway, send me an IM when you get a chance; we need to get this Flash band together pronto!

  by chris on 2006-05-09 02:19:44

• Get movin' Man! Akismet takes about 2 seconds to set up! Congrats. Brent

  by Brent Bonet on 2006-05-09 10:49:02

• Hi Aral, I will be updating my blog shortly to point to your new blog. Is goint to take some time to get use to :) Cheers. +LA

  by LordAlex on 2006-05-09 13:45:25

• Hey Chris, thanks and congrats on your blog -- it's looking good! :) LordAlex: Cool!.. and I have to start adding links and customizing the site -- and I know, it's weird for me too!

  by aral on 2006-05-09 13:49:30

• Hi Aral, I see you are using the short URL format for the RSS feed (...feed/). How do you redirect your old feed adress to the new one (i'm wondering because MXNA still fetches your blog without any problems).

  by sascha/hdrs on 2006-05-27 07:52:51

• Hey Sascha, I used a simple permanent redirect on FlashAnt (in the .htaccess file): Redirect permanent /b2rss.php http://aralbalkan.com/?feed=rss2 Redirect permanent / http://aralbalkan.com/ That's it, really :) That said, I believe that Mike's updated the records in MXNA so it probably has the direct URL of the new feed in the database now.

  by aral on 2006-05-27 11:45:15

• Great! Thanks for letting me know! I've tried that with using just /feed before but obvioulsy the redirect only works on files, not folders! Hadn't though about that there still is the ?feed=rss2 url available.

  by sascha/hdrs on 2006-05-27 11:56:19

• Cool, man, hope it works out! :)

  by aral on 2006-05-27 12:01:05