Moving to ExpressionEngine
March 03rd, 2007
DerekAllard.com has completed the transformation into ExpressionEngine, but it’s not live yet (want to migrate the data first). It took all of about 2 hours after I finally forced myself to sit down in front of my computer and turn off my email. Funny how your own “personal” stuff always seems to take a back seat to “important” work, but I’ve just finally grown frustrated with the roll-my-own solution.
I’m really, really, happy with the codebase I built for this site in Code Igniter, but the problem is that every time I want a new feature I need to go fix it up. And also, in honesty, it pains me to see all the kick ass features in EE that I haven’t built into my blog yet… and well, I want to be one of the cool kids.
So now the really painful part - data migration. Anyone who’s ever worked with legacy system and/or code can tell you want a pain that can be. The good news, moving the posts over is a pretty straight-forward process. The bad news, moving the comments over won’t be.
Sigh… no rest for the wicked I suppose!
This entry was made on March 03rd, 2007 @ 9:28 and filed into ExpressionEngine, Noteworthy.
Yannick wrote on March 03rd, 2007 @ 17:07
Hope it all goes well Derek.