http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2006 by the authors Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:20:38 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/06/16/133219.php#comment-69569 Sounds like Phillip really needs a case of Drew Carey's "Buzz Beer". After I get the next two eps of the final season of the Drew Carey Show, I'll have to do a post about it. BTW have you looked at Slashcode? Plastic.com makes rather good use of it. 69569@blogcritics.org Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:20:38 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/06/16/133219.php#comment-69565 Mt Dew? Dr Pepper? Dude, it's Pepsi or beer or nothing! ;-) I'm going to be out of town next week, perhaps I'll return refreshed and energized and ready to rewrite the core of MT! 69565@blogcritics.org Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:05:15 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/06/16/133219.php#comment-69562 ... and I am all for sending Phillip a case or two of Mt. Dew or Dr. Pepper ;) 69562@blogcritics.org Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:42:24 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/06/16/133219.php#comment-69560 Pivot is going to have MySQL added in the near future according to the developer and that is (will be anyway) probably the closest fit to MT without all the licensing and commercial requirements. And since Pivot is written entirely in PHP and not running as an inefficient Perl CGI process it should be superior to MT in terms of scalability. I hope Bob (the Pivot developer) uses cached pages and doesn't try to query the database on each page load like some of these blog programs do. That's very inefficient when programs operate that way. Then again, if Phillip just continues with his idea of hacking the internal MT posting script then there will be little need to switch to anything else. 69560@blogcritics.org Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:36:20 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/06/16/133219.php#comment-69539 The thing here is that we have 460+ posters that are used to the current interface. If I replace it with something else, it needs to be easier to use than MT, if possible, not in the least bit harder. Techies like you, Ms Tek, have no problems anyway, but we've got a bunch of non-techies here, too. So I would have to hack the crud out of WordPress to avoid confusing people. It would probably be easier just to write a new posting screen and leave the data structures alone. :-) 69539@blogcritics.org Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:22:06 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/06/16/133219.php#comment-69523 I am VERY HAPPY with WordPress now that I have it working. VERY HAPPY. 69523@blogcritics.org Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:47:01 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/06/16/133219.php#comment-69522 Of course, this does nothing to help Blogcritics, which would apparently now be required to pay an unknown amount in excess of $1300 to upgrade. Since we've already completely tossed out the default MT comment mechanism because it was mind-bogglingly slow, I just don't see that happening. I'd sooner rewrite the item-posting mechanism. COme to think of it, I just might. 69522@blogcritics.org Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:44:50 EDT