I’ve been frustrated with the old blog code and the old design for some time now and wanted to redo everything and already started multiple attempts in various technological reincarnations — the latest being an implementation in java/spring using my jcouchdb library. The design got more and more ambitious over time; so ambitious that it would basically require me to work full-time on it.

The solution was to seriously cut back on my ambitions with this blog and just use one of the available blog engines. This turned out to be wordpress in the end because it seemed like a good fit. The import from my Turbogears blog could be done with a hacky one-liner from the turbogears shell:

"".join(
    map(lambda post : """
        <item>
            <pubDate>%s</pubDate>
            %s
            <title>%s</title>
            <content:encoded>%s</content:encoded>
        </item>\n""" % (
            post.created,
            "".join( map(lambda s: "<category>%s</category>\n" % s,
                             post.tagNames.split(" "))),
            post.name,
            post.text.replace("\n"," ")), posts))

I hope all this will lead to me actually writing stuff in this blog instead of perpetually coding on it.