I remember the last time I made a large change to the system. About a year ago. The worst part was translating all the old posts into the new database. This time, thankfully, it's not seeming so bad. Maybe I didn't make as many changes.

Well, truthfully, I don't have the comments importing yet, so there may still be problems. But I just wrote something to grab all the posts on my page from the remote server ("oak") and put them into the new database here on my desk ("tulip".) I takes about a minute over this 56k dialup to suck it all down. Not bad.

I'm probably not as close to being done as it seems from the news that I'm already importing the old database. This is just for some testing so I can make sure I'm not missing any obvious problems just because I don't have many posts in the system.

The biggest finding so far, which is obvious but still worth noting, is that everything works really fast when it's all on the same machine. Wow. What a pleasure to not have to wait even one second for anything to happen. This makes the on line experience feel rather lacking in zip. I wonder how much of a difference a dedicated server will make?
- jim 1-30-2002 7:43 pm

The comments are now importing without even the smallest fuss. Of course I haven't mentioned that I actually am dropping one optional feature that I didn't really like anyway. W'ell see. I have an idea for how to add it back in without the huge performance hit if there is some sort of outrage.

On the other hand the new system does do one very cool new thing with comments. Very helpful.

But no more work. I'm done for the day. Going for a beer.
- jim 1-30-2002 11:24 pm


thanks for the hard work!! beers on me next time!!
- Skinny 1-31-2002 4:05 pm





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