It feels like one of those "Switch Commercials". I got fed up with load times for LiveJournal, and decided to finally finish the install of Movable Type I had begun almost 8 months ago. Since there was a new version, I completely scrapped the old one, effectively freezing the CAC page (good excuse to redesign it), and installed and configured like a code monkey whore.
The last of my ~600 entries were put in place less than half an hour ago. I had to do a lot of it by hand from CSV files, and I am kind of thankful I did it now instead of waiting before there were even more files. If I haven't told you about TextPad, then chances are you haven't heard me go "geek" on you yet. It is free (but well worth the money), does syntax highlighting for most major text-based code, and it has what I feel is the most important thing that even high end IDEs like Visual Studio and CodeWarrior lack. You can do REGEX expressions inside of the program! Yes, that's right. You can create and execute complex regular expressions inside of your text editor. It makes standard search / replace look pretty lame. Thanks to this, going from CSV to the MT format was beyond easy. I would actually say it was rather painless, almost enjoyable. And now the site goes faster, and commenting is handled through my own server, reducing load time that much more. So now, to date, I have made use of the following "blog" software:
In order used... - NewsPro - News Publisher - Blogger - Greymatter - OpenDiary - Coranto - LiveJournal - Movable Type
If you are good with programming, like tweaking things, and feel good about your skills, MT is so far the best. A very close second, and what I would be using were it not for MT would be Greymatter. Of course, I tend to do a lot of updates with a lot of different things, and both GM and MT offered most of the features I could want. Still a big fan of the GM template system though. I don't think I will ever grow tired of {{ }} tags. That and the MT ones reminded me too much of scripting languages. For those who use MT, I will probably set up Trackbacks some time next weekend, but definitely not tonight. Oh, and those of you that read this via my LJ backend, I won't be dropping LJ, just doing a little cross-postng action. Expect the usual ramblings, comments, and insanity. Only now on Felocity, it loads faster.
In response to "Not Quite Apple":
What, you mean I don’t have to suffer through Anon. LJ posting anymore?
Site loads quickly now. Are you ever going to finish those other poor and neglected sections (like cosplay)?