Posts Tagged → movable type
switched from drupal to wordpress
I'm not sure if anyone noticed this, but lithostech.com is using a drastically different theme. It's just a canned theme like the old one because I'm not a designer and also can't afford one. That's not the only difference though. I've also switched from Drupal to WordPress. Mainly, I made the switch because we're considering moving to WordPress from Movable Type at work and I wanted to get a feel for how it works.
Continue reading →how-to: cache the uncacheable (movable type dynamic paginated pages)
Movable Type 4.2 introduced (among other things) built-in pagination. When you have a set of entries published to a dynamic index, you can auto-paginate them with some magical tags and it works wonderfully. That is, it works unless you wanted to use Movable Type's built-in caching system for dynamic content. Movable Type's cache entries are unique to a given relative URL excluding the request parameters. In the case of pagination, request parameters make all the difference on what should be cached. If you're not following, this means that the following URLs are identical as far as the MT cache is concerned:
/ /?limit=10&offset=10 /?whatever_its_all_the_same_to=MTContinue reading →
migrating a movable type system, the replication way
Lately, I've been in the business of migrating between hosting providers. We're moving away from the classic web host CentOS. The reason that CentOS became the web host OS of choice in the middle of the decade still eludes. I just imagine a some RHEL fan club being told to implement a linux web host solution with no budget and CentOS was the fruit of that effort. Our new host is of the new ultra-trendy VPS type. We chose slicehost on some recommendations from friends. I host my own blog and some other stuff on a VPS at vpslink.com. I fired it up with Intrepid Ibex (of course) and started migrating stuff over the Ubuntu way.
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