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OK. I’ve gone from MoveableType to Blogger to Blosxom to Pebble, back to Blogger, and now to WordPress. I’m impressed with the interface. It’s much easier to work with than most other systems I’ve been on.

I’ve tried to structure the permalinks so that they’re easy to port to another system later on. I’ve eliminated the dates from them altogether. I figure I’d prefer to make my titles unique anyway, and you shouldn’t have to know the date of a post to link to it. Let me know if you’d like to see it differently.

So my next set of work is to bring all my old posts in. I’ve never caught any of my blogs up to date yet, so cross your fingers. I just might do it.

UPDATE: I’ve changed my permalink structure back to the traditional /archives/year/month/day format since it had some unexpected side effects. My calendar no longer had valid links for day summaries, and I really want that. I just supposed (naively, I guess) that archive links to months and days would always force a date structure on the URL but the truly permanent link could be constructed without any date information using a purely unique identifier. Maybe I’ve just been staring a Russel Beattie’s permalinks too long.

Ok. I’ve got my most popular article ported over to Blogger. I now have my domain registrar pointing my domain name at a server I own running Apache. I use URL rewriting to ensure old article permalinks still work. I also use the mod_proxy to send all requests to Blogger. I host my own images, since Blogger doesn’t host any.

I’ll be backporting my entries for a while, then tweaking my templates. After that, I’ve got some great stuff to write on my recent work with using Spring, JMS, and threads to process hundreds of thousands of messages.

After being thoroughly frustrated with the inability of my hosting service to handle the traffic that my Eclipse post generated, I’m trying out Blogger. I had an account here way back, but wanted more features and better control. They updated their site a while ago, but I was in the midst of my own blog hosting. Now I’m back to check it out.