Mitchell Hashimoto2009-08-09T05:10:21-04:00http://mitchellhashimoto.com/Mitchell Hashimotomitchell.hashimoto@gmail.comNew Site2009-08-06T00:00:00-04:00http://mitchellhashimoto.com/2009/08/06/new-site
<h2>A New Feel</h2>
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Although I really enjoyed the design of the previous iteration
of the site, I think after 2 years its time to move on. The
site is still very much a work in progress but this is a basic
look its going to take on. The design goal was simplicity and
flexibility with a focus on the word "light" (like a feather).
</p>
<p>
I've moved away from <a href="http://wordpress.org">Wordpress</a>
after 6 years! I've moved to using <a href="http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/">
Jekyll</a> using GitHub and a custom Git post-receive hook to
regenerate the website. To continue to support comments, I've
moved to the very much awesome <a href="http://disqus.com">Disqus</a>
commenting system.
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<h2>The Old Posts</h2>
<p>
Blogging for two years off and on, I had a lot of well-indexed
and informative blog posts which I have been continually receiving
compliments on via email. For this reason, I plan on migrating all
the posts over one-by-one, manually.
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<p>
While moving over the posts poses absolutely no problem to me, I'm
much more worried about the comments. I'm not sure how I'll handle
those quite yet. A lot of valuable information was within the comments
and I don't want to lose out on that. I guess I'll have to sit on
that thought for a bit.
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<h2>The Future</h2>
<p>
First and foremost I'd like to get those old posts into this new
system. And comments, if I can think of a clean solution (I have
a pretty good idea though, so I'm 88.7% sure this will happen).
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<p>
Then, I'd like to get my RSS feeds back up and running the
readers I have can continue reading. <strong>Do not worry! The
feed URL will remain the same, so if you're already subscribed,
it will continue to "just work."</strong>
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<p>
Finally, I plan on hooking search back into my site (via google
powered site search). This is the easiest task but I expect the
least important versus the above two, so I will tackle this last.
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