move posts

Alright. After much effort, I have moved my site from Dreamhost shared hosting to their DreamCompute (unmanaged VPS). I now have my own (virtual) server to do with as I please. Continue reading post "Move: Shared to VPS server"

This weekend I finished moving out of my old house. Continue reading post "The move"

This past weekend was pretty much all house related. There was a van to move furniture in addition to the usual moving stuff and cleaning. Continue reading post "#1433"

It caught me by surprise that if you use mv on a symlink to a folder and have a…

I'm slowly copying the markdown versions of my posts after my recent move of this blog. It really is tedious, and I don't think I'll finish anytime soon, so in the meantime I created a plugin to output the [ code] shortcode that wordpress.com put in my post export in the same way that markdown does. This is the first plugin and shortcode I've created in a long while, but it was relatively quick to do working off of my posts on plugins and shortcodes. The biggest time consumer was figuring out how to deal with whitespace issues. Apparently, WordPress sometimes will add <p> and <br /> to shortcode content. Also, there were leading and trailing line breaks adding unnecessary space. My quick solution:

This weekend, I moved my wordpress.com "professional" (web developmen…