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Who needs pagination in a blog?

Posted by lori, Mon Jun 15 16:00:00 UTC 2009


I don't really blog that often. Even when I was going at full tilt, I rarely posted more than 10-12 times a month. So... I don't care about the pagination plugin anymore. I especially don't care when it involves 3 inter-related plugins, at different/conflicting versions!

So I took the easy way out, I'm afraid. Googling for alternatives, I discovered this example pastie, which gives me the month-by-month archive in the sidebar you see now.


See? Who needs pagination?

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Mephisto upgrade started

Posted by lori, Fri Jun 12 22:58:00 UTC 2009

I've upgraded the blog to Mephisto 0.8.1 Drax. I would have been in serious trouble, had it not been for Rob Seaman's blog. Waves! Hi, Rob. Thanks.

It wasn't just a simple upgrade, in fact, it was pretty freaking complicated. But, since I worked so hard, it should be smooth sailing for the future.

  1. Upgrade to new Mephisto, and learn more about Git at the same time (Rob's blog was really useful for that part)
  2. Moved from Nginx/Mongrel setup on a Nitix box, to Apache/Passenger on Solaris 10 (SunFire V100). (More on that later)
  3. Capified the blog, for better/faster customizations and updates. (Yeeee!!!!!)

Seems like a lot, doesn't it? I thought so too. There was even a couple of days of yak-shaving involved, as I attempted to force certain plugins to work, which were not compatible with 0.8.1. Never mind. The blog is up and running, and it will survive for a day or two without a tag cloud, or pagination. I'll get to it. Promise.

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