Whats up with Hatim!

I finally took some time to upgrade my typo installation to latest revision of SVN. After updating the code base I found out that my website had broken. As usual I panikly logged onto irc.freenode on channel #typo. I found neuro` (typo dev) there who told me to 'reke db:migrate'. When that didn't work he told me to get rcov gem. The hosting company which I use manages ruby gems by them selves. so I postd a request for gem. Lucky for me this request was honoured within minutes. I then did a successful db migration. But my blog was still broken. I read some where that It was probably a older dispatch.fcgi is still running. While I was figuring this out, my website came online by it' self.

The reason I switched to typo was to learn ruby and rails (and perhaps work on typo). I need to get my act straight and start coding :)

I found one bug in typo, when sorting posts by dat in manage, it does not sort entries according to the dates visible in view (i suspect it sorts by date of actul post). So perhaps I can start by looking into this bug.

One of the primary reason I have my blog on a personal domain-name/server is that I don't have to deal with arbitrary outages to blog services. Blogger was banned in my country after the cartoon scandal in early 2006. I can understand why my government would ban some blogs, but an unconditional block on all blogs is plain absurd. Now with my own websapce and domain name I have more control over my web presence.

I have many tasks for my new blog. Most important of them is to import entries from blogger. My current plan is to manually post stuff one by one. This way I will be able to clean stuff from around 260 posts I have done on blogger. I have looked into RSS based migrations from Blogger to Type, but since my previous entries are unstructured I definitely need a migration_by_hand

I did try to post an entry with dates of publishing for Dec 2006 (by manually changing MySQL for contents table of Typo),but It didn't work as it was expected to. It would definitely be a great help to me If I get hold of a desktop publishing client for Typo which can also manipulate date of blog posting.

I had been contemplating this for a very long time, but its done now. I had bought domain name from GoDaddy.com three months ago and I finally took the time to buy my self a nice hosting plan with a site called RailsPlayGround.com. As the name suggests this site is meant for Ruby on Rails developers to play with their rails applications.

First thing I have done on this site is to Install Typo as my primary blog engine. It would be nice to build my own blog engine one day, but meanwhile I can post my blog entries here and migrate(clean) blog entries from blogger.