Firefox/Sage bookmarks to Google Reader import July 17th, 2008

When OPML is OPML but it isn’t OPML

Blosxom to WordPress: tying up loose ends November 6th, 2006

A busy few weeks, but they’ve included an import from a Blosxom blog to a WordPress blog which is worth describing. There are a couple of established methods for importing the data, and I opted for the one that seemed the most modular. This was Eric Davis’ Import-Blosxom method, consisting of a PHP script on [...]

Very flat, Excel March 22nd, 2006

Database design, as an intellectual exercise, can be tremendously satisfying. As one builds up relations and constraints, making your database just rigid enough to support the more intelligent model soon to be layered over it, it’s possible to feel a sense of future-problems-solved: this check will prevent the model from trying to call a service [...]