techblog 

As you may have seen there have been no new posts for a week whilst we made the move to WordPress, away from Blojsom. Blojsom initially suited us very well, but as time has moved on it doesn’t have the functionality that WordPress has. In fact WordPress is a very impressive product.

Migration was pretty straightforward using the RSS import utility. There was one post that did not import and had to be re-entered by hand (the one about tail -f). More concerning was that there was no way to import comments without writing code, which we half did and half just cut and pasted.

With the move to WordPress we have made some improvements, namely:

• The categories have been tidied up
• One post can now be in multiple categories
• We’ve added links to our personal blogs (for those that have them).

The design is only partly complete, we will be revising it over time.

Unfortunately we did not keep the same permalink structure so old links will need to be changed. But the posts are all still there.