Blog 24 Nov 2006 05:49 pm
I switched over to using Wordpress for my personal blog. Drupal was a bit heavyweight and I wanted to get some experience with Wordpress. Hopefully all the posts moved over correctly (I know I have some formatting tweaks to do and stuff).
Shared: Golf can be bad for hearing
Shared a link: Real Life Comics - The Online Comic ©1999-2008 Greg Dean
@codinghorror haha - I had a similar realization when NPR then pulled in some 'local news channel reporter' soundbite, they're worse!
@phantomdata Air is pretty nice - the ability to install and even launch from a click in a browser is really powerful.
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Netflix
on 29 Nov 2006 at 3:51 pm 1.Jordan T. Cox said …
Onyx, novel captcha! I’m going to have to try something like that. I enjoy the one about placing a box of puppies, and having the submit button be the kitten that doesn’t belong.
on 29 Nov 2006 at 4:20 pm 2.OnyxRaven said …
Yeah - the little captcha plugin I installed is pretty basic, but I think I’m going to add onto it to do some of the things I mentioned in my previous CAPTCHA post.
Puppies and kittens though - I think that might distract people enough to not post
(I can think of a few good ways to do that one, too).
on 29 Nov 2006 at 4:41 pm 3.david said …
Yea nice captcha. Too bad it took me 4 tries to get the right answer
The page seems to be loading lots faster too
on 29 Nov 2006 at 4:43 pm 4.david said …
BTW, your Amazon Wishlist link doesn’t seem to be working
on 29 Nov 2006 at 9:14 pm 5.OnyxRaven said …
Should be ok now. Think I had the internal link on there.
Wordpress does pretty spiffy page-level file caching that works quite well. Drupal did caching, but only in the DB (never cared enough to dig down to making it file based). That accounts for a heck of a lot of the speed.
I’m set up at dreamhost, and the database servers are ‘far’ from the webservers, so it incurs a bit of latency. Not having to go back to the db for everything helps.
on 07 Dec 2006 at 9:04 am 6.Gellar said …
this is pretty bland looking compared to the other sites! come on bud!
on 07 Dec 2006 at 7:22 pm 7.david said …
I like it. Remember, less is more
on 08 Dec 2006 at 9:01 am 8.Eric Cosky said …
Funny, I did the opposite and switched from Wordpress to Drupal not too long ago. Drupal does seem slower, but I haven’t really optimized it yet. I’m a programmer and when I tried to enhance my Wordpress code it started to become annoying so I switched over.
The jury is still out as far as I’m concerned but I do like the Drupal programming model better. Wordpress is definitely easier to get to a properly functional state though.
on 10 Dec 2006 at 3:55 pm 9.OnyxRaven said …
Yeah, its a tossup, for sure. Who knows, I might go back to drupal, but the blog parts of drupal don’t seem as mature as in wordpress. Since thats primarily what I want to do right here, I thought i’d give WP a try.