I keep coming back and this time for real..
by Nazly on Saturday, 21st November 2009 10:08:15
At the beginning of this year I made a promise that my blog posts will flow and I will update regularly. But unfortunately for several reasons I haven’t posted anything in my blog since January. Juggling my life between work and family is one of the main reasons. My wife gave birth to a baby boy in January. Since then I have been fascinated by watching him grow. Each day has been a new experience and facing new challenges was exciting. I would have loved to keep posting stuff on my blog but my addiction to Twitter was the easy way out since I could do a blog post in 140 characters and in quick time. Yet there were stuff I want to share on my blog but since my blogging engine is something I wrote from scratch in PHP in 2005 it lacked all the new features a blog should have. So actually I was kinda stuck with the basic requirements to keep my blogging hopes alive.
Couple of months back I made the decision to switch to WordPress. Since then I have been stealing time and migrating my blog to WordPress. It was not easy but since WordPress has a tons of features to import it was just like a walk in the park. But that was just for posts. Importing comments was bit tough but I was able to write few custom PHP scripts and MySQL queries to make the transition smooth. Then I had to categorize and tag posts which I did manually. URLs have changed. But I made sure that I do 301 redirects to all the previous URLs to make sure that I don’t lose my search engine rankings and traffic that has been flowing in. All in all it was fun. I took my own time, and finally its up.
Now I make another promise. My blog posts will continue. Its your support that has kept this blog alive.
7 comments
Cool layout, much better than the old one
by Mundir on November 21, 2009 at 10:34. #
Thanks Mundir.. yeah it is.. Filled in with new features too
by Nazly on November 21, 2009 at 11:04. #
Hi Maximus,
Sorry about the late feedback. I certainly like the colour scheme and the new layout – It looks very classy while being modern. Also glad to see you’re getting hold of open source solutions like WordPress/Drupal (the stuff we weren’t much interested over the years
).
Honestly, I’ve always loved each and every piece of work you’ve done, which I saw in past decade or so. I felt all of them had the technology and look n’ feel to go with the trend of WWW in that particular time. I know you’ll continue the awesome work and be my role model in cyberspace.
Good luck with the new version of blog and hoping to read your interesting posts…
Subhash
by Subhash on November 26, 2009 at 11:23. #
Congratz mate. Finally glad to see this up and running. After all how tough can it be eh? Go 1 deep and run a loop. He he.
As I have complete faith in ur Programming skills, I knew that you’d hold true to your promise of getting this back online. But I’m yet to see the posts mate. Prove me wrong.
by chaar~max on November 30, 2009 at 12:44. #
Hi guys.. Thanks for your encouraging comments.. It really motivates me. I have taken a big step by migrating my blog. And the next step of continuing to maintain it seems to be bit tough as I have been out of touch for a long time.. But I have set my self deadlines. Otherwise this is not gonna work. Expect more from me soon…
by Nazly on December 5, 2009 at 18:42. #
Hi Nazly,
The new interface looks very impressive! Keep up the great work! Looking forward to more PHP posts.
Regards
by Mufeel on December 5, 2009 at 20:01. #
See see… still no follow up post! Ok here is an idea for your next post. Your TAGGED!.
by chaar~max on December 5, 2009 at 20:18. #