Sunday, March 7, 2010
The Woof Is Back
As I said last month, the charming folks at Blogger informed those who keep blogs on their own servers that they had until March 27th to move their blogs to the Google server farm, or else.
I chose else.
I figured I had until mid-March to cobble together some sort of publishing system of my own, at which point I could toss Blogger over the transom. I was right about the system but wrong about the deadline.
Starting last week Blogger became increasingly reluctant to publish by FTP. It got to the point where I had to click the Publish button a dozen times over the course of a couple hours before my post ended up on my blog. Finally on Wednesday it quit working altogether.
It took from Thursday evening until Sunday afternoon, working in my spare time, to produce a basic post editor. It lacks features, but it basically works. This is the first result.
Now it's time to Keel Da Google.
I chose else.
I figured I had until mid-March to cobble together some sort of publishing system of my own, at which point I could toss Blogger over the transom. I was right about the system but wrong about the deadline.
Starting last week Blogger became increasingly reluctant to publish by FTP. It got to the point where I had to click the Publish button a dozen times over the course of a couple hours before my post ended up on my blog. Finally on Wednesday it quit working altogether.
It took from Thursday evening until Sunday afternoon, working in my spare time, to produce a basic post editor. It lacks features, but it basically works. This is the first result.
Now it's time to Keel Da Google.
