What is Pubsubhubsub?
Wed, August 12th 2009 at 12:02am
After watching TWIg (This Week in Google) Episode 1 about a week ago found out about Pubsubhubsub. It sounded interesting because it seems like this protocol or something like it is going to be important to Google Wave in the future. I have not had a chance to play with Google Wave yet, but from what I saw its goal is to do everything in real time, including interactions with websites, blogs, forums and comments.
With the current polling syndication system this is impossible to do without polling every website you are interested in multiple times a second. Pubsubhubsub is building on the current syndication spec and adding push notifications to it, thus allowing real time updates from any enabled site with a syndicated feed. In this post I am going to go over a little more of what I have learnt about PSHS and what it does and how to enable it with WordPress. more »
Short URL’s
Sat, August 8th 2009 at 03:49pm
After installing WordPress one of the first things I wanted to do was make a custom Short URL generator for the site. However after doing a quick search for plugins I found out two modules that will do what I need. The first creates short links for all the posts on the site, the second provides a directory of links to external sites. Both modules route all the links through a custom domain I bought. more »
Moved to WordPress!
Fri, August 7th 2009 at 11:54pm
If you have been reading recently then you know that I have been having a few problems configuring Drupal 6 after upgrading from version 4.7. After looking through many configuration settings, and all the modules needed to do what I wanted I could see that Drupal was too much for what I needed.
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WordPress For the Win?
Wed, August 5th 2009 at 03:03am
Well after giving Drupal 6 a quick shot I decided that it is no longer for me. Drupal has always been a kitchen sink kind of system, and that’s what it’s meant to be. After looking at all the configuration options, and how many issues I ran into during a simple upgrade and updating a theme I decided it was time to look for something a little more polished. Drupal is still great for creating a large community site, but if you are just looking for a blog or a central place for all your online stuff then it’s just overkill.
So with that I decided to give WordPress a try, and initial impressions are good. I have a blog up and running, and I am currently working on getting my old posts out of Drupal (much much harder than it should be) and importing into WordPress. I found a few tutorials for the move from Drupal, but most involve direct manupulation of the database, which in my eyes is a bad idea. So instead I am writing a small script that exports some basic Drupal post data into an XML file, then use the WordPress Import modules to import the data. So far it’s working well.
WordPress just seems much more focused on what I need right now, which is basically a blog. But it also seems to offer a lot of extensibility via modules and themes. I am about 60% of the way through creating a custom theme and it all seems quite well though out. Hopefully everything will be all back together by Monday. This will teach me to stop being lazy and just make a Linux server for testing next time, I was sure I could get everything upgraded in a day or two. 
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