When I started this blog in June of 2005 I was using WordPress. At the time I was doing Java development and had yet to hear of Rails. Shortly after the blog turned one year old, I migrated to Typo and then to Mephisto in March of this year. Both Typo and Mephisto are capable […]

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I recently moved my fiatdev.com from WordPress to Typo. As part of the move, I wanted to make sure that all of the WordPress URLs continued to work. I started out trying to do this with mod_rewrite, but had some problems making it work the way I wanted. In the end, I used mod_alias RedirectMatch […]

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On several occasions recently I have needed to mirror a remote Subversion repository on my laptop for development. The circumstances were a little different in each case, but the basic need was the same. In the most recent instance I wanted to track the Typo Subversion repository while at the same time managing my own […]

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Capistrano is a great tool for deploying Rails applications. However, by default Capistrano requires that the servers being deployed to have access to the version control repository to check out the code. While this may not seem like a big deal at first, there are situations where it is just not feasible.

I have run into […]

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I have been playing around with Typo and decided to see how difficult it would be to try to migrate my content from WordPress. As it turns out, the conversion script that comes with Typo is completely non-functional with the pre-release version of Typo 4 and WordPress 2.0.x. Like a good open-source user I checked […]

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