I just completed moving the old posts to the new blog software behind the scenes. Man, SQLite is a pain in the butt to move over to a MySQL. Maybe it was just how I structured the DB differently this time around but that was atrocious.

Regardless, I think this site should be almost use able again. I need to make a number of changes including being able to edit these posts in something other then a DBM. Luckily, now that it’s written in Java, I can play with the code a lot more easily then I could with Ruby on Rails.

RoR was a bane on this sites existence until today. Now I can put all that behind me. I do not view RoR being a totally useless language but it pigeonholes developers into thinking in certain ways while expecting the rest of the world to be as motivated as RoR developers. I’m sorry, I’m not going to follow people on Twitter just to keep up with the “conventional” syntax of the language. I thought the goal was to NOT have a bunch of configurations changing all the time. Changing your conventions in lieu of that doesn’t make you “more” understandable. Talk about doublespeak…