Innovation in Software

For the last three years, this blog was using the Mephisto blogging platform – a Ruby on Rails application that I intended to expand myself in all sorts of ways.

To be frank, the code base for Mephisto suffers a little from bit-rot, and it seems to me that the original authors have almost given up on supporting the system. Hey, it’s still not made a 1.0 release, so I’m sure it’s just a lack of time, we’re all busy, etc. but I need something with a more active developer community (and I know I’m part of the problem by not diving in myself).

Handily, in the time that has elapsed, Wordpress has gone from being a rather annoying and slightly odd PHP blogging platform into a really slick CMS with tons of widgets, themes and plugins. So I’ve switched.

And at the same time, I’ve also decided that comments need to be opened up on articles. Right now, all articles published from 1st June 2009 have comments open so if you saw something you liked (or hated), feel free to make a comment now.

P.S. thanks to Jason Morris for the script modification that helped me move 3 years of blog posts in about 15 minutes, itself based on a script by David Murphy