easiest upgrade ever my ass!
Friday, September 09, 2005
So I just finished upgrading to the latest offering of Six Apart's Movable Type, 3.02.
The beta's been out for awhile but I was holding back on upgrading until the official release.
Turns out I should have waited until there was a much handier user manual to go along with it. Ironically, Six Apart boasts a new user manual with the release which reads as ridiculously complicated as the last one.
The upgrade was so smooth and easy in fact, that I ended up deleting my old flatfile database after completely destroying my ftp files during the transition.
Here's a sample of the language I've been using around the house for the last 24 hours:
Anyway, bottom line is after the swearing died down, I gutted my ftp, reinstalled the new version from scratch, lost all of my old comments, entries, & templates.
But I did get it installed. And the upside to this torturous process is that I am now utilizing a SQL database so that the next time I fuck things up this badly I can repair them a lot easier than this time around.
So over the next little while, I'll be rebuilding my entries and putting humpty-dumpty back together again.
On a fun note the new version has some sweet options, most notably StyleCatcher, which allows owners to change the stylesheet for the site in a few clicks rather than the old hand coding we've all spent hours doing. So the new toy will be responsible for the site looking different likely everytime you visit.
I have a thing about changing my environment often, my IM avatars, wallpapers, backgrounds, etc. So even though it doesn't make up for the huge pile of work I have to do to rebuild the site, I'm loving this new plugin. And you have to admit, it looks pretty sharp.
The beta's been out for awhile but I was holding back on upgrading until the official release.
Turns out I should have waited until there was a much handier user manual to go along with it. Ironically, Six Apart boasts a new user manual with the release which reads as ridiculously complicated as the last one.
The upgrade was so smooth and easy in fact, that I ended up deleting my old flatfile database after completely destroying my ftp files during the transition.
Here's a sample of the language I've been using around the house for the last 24 hours:
fuckshitassbaggingmotherbitchingsonofawhoreI throw long incomprehensible strings of swears together when I'm really pissed. I tell Superwife that its better than swearing singly, because Trinity has no chance of one of those babies being her first word.
Anyway, bottom line is after the swearing died down, I gutted my ftp, reinstalled the new version from scratch, lost all of my old comments, entries, & templates.
But I did get it installed. And the upside to this torturous process is that I am now utilizing a SQL database so that the next time I fuck things up this badly I can repair them a lot easier than this time around.
So over the next little while, I'll be rebuilding my entries and putting humpty-dumpty back together again.
On a fun note the new version has some sweet options, most notably StyleCatcher, which allows owners to change the stylesheet for the site in a few clicks rather than the old hand coding we've all spent hours doing. So the new toy will be responsible for the site looking different likely everytime you visit.
I have a thing about changing my environment often, my IM avatars, wallpapers, backgrounds, etc. So even though it doesn't make up for the huge pile of work I have to do to rebuild the site, I'm loving this new plugin. And you have to admit, it looks pretty sharp.
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posted by raistlinsghost at 9/09/2005 11:51:00 PM
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