migration

One of the more daunting tasks of installing new solutions is data migration from old systems. Years of work and data colection cannot be wasted. And since I’ve always found fun in doing this kind of exploration of old application databases this article describes something which should not even be considered legacy migration: migrating data from access (mdb files) to postgresql. The solution I thought this will be a very simple task using the mdb-tools package also available as a ubuntu package:...

The task ahead was to migrate my old plone based blog/site to a wordpress site. Here was a short list of items to keep in mind: plone import content (normal content ~ 600 entries, special:ContentPanels) keep old links still valid including RSS !? handle relative links in posts handle google (sitemap, adwords, analytics) design (find theme, modify css, logo/photo, php part) others (the photos, favicon, 404 page, pre style for code snippets) Export data My first idea was to use the XML export of Plone but this seemed buggy in my install so I decided to create an XML export of my own....

Len.ro new generation. Ma tot gandesc de ceva timp sa migrez len.ro fie intr-o versiune noua de plone fie in wordpress. M-am decis sa aleg a doua varianta si sa merg pe wordpress. Asa ca vineri dimineata cum oricum nu puteam sa dorm mi-am facut clasicul todo si m-am apucat de munca distractie. Rezultatul e ce vedeti. Revin cu detalii tehnice in curand. Am reusit migrez aproape tot continutul si linkurile (sper)....