Muffinresearch Labs by Stuart Colville

Moving to Textpattern | 5 Comments

Posted in Muffin Research Labs on 16th December 2005, 1:07 am by

Things have been hotting up around here, I’m steadily seeing about 500+ uniques per day which is great news. Google analytics has settled down and is doing a great job keeping me informed of which sites are sending traffic my way.

As I have quite a lot on at the moment with various projects and continuing to maintain ‘the Lab’, I have decided to move from my custom made CMS (Joornal) to Textpattern. After reading Jon Hicks’ post on some of Textpattern’s templating features I was inspired to check Textpattern out and install in on the server. Having taken a look I’m pretty sure that it will meet my needs and the time I would have spent continuing to develop Joornal can now be devoted to other more exciting projects.

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  • http://ninefour.co.uk Nathan Pitman

    Glad to hear you’re taking a look at Textpattern. There’s a free version of Expression Engine (pmachine.com) now too.

  • http://www.muffinresearch.co.uk Stuart

    @Nathan: Thanks for the suggestion, I will check out Expression Engine before I start to write the script to convert my db structure to the new one.

  • http://www.estadobeta.com Ismael

    Why did you chose Txp over WordPress or other systems? What I don’t like much about Txp is that you’ve got to learn yet another templating language -tags- whereas with, say, WordPress you can use plain PHP in your templates. From a developer perspective, last Txp version I checked was a pretty awful spaghetti code and I feared it could get difficult to extend (WordPress isn’t much better in this point, either).

  • http://www.muffinresearch.co.uk Stuart

    @Ismael:Fair comments. For me the xml template method used doesn’t strike me as too alien. I will be honest, as yet I haven’t actually looked at the code but now you mentioned it I will take a peek.

    If you aren’t too keen on Textpattern or WordPress what’s your recommendation?

  • http://eugens-web.com 3DSL Eugen

    Textpattern is a great blog software, but wordpress is more popular.

GNU screen: open tab in current working directory|(1)

A nice trick for having screen open a new tab in the same directory as the one you’re currently in. To use it add it to your .screenrc

# Open new window in current dir.
bind c stuff "screen -X chdir \$PWD;screen^M"
bind ^c stuff "screen -X chdir \$PWD;screen^M"

Hat tip: mteckert on SuperUser.com

Ubuntu: add-apt-repository: command not found|(2)

When you’re using a minimal Ubuntu install if you find the ‘add-apt-repository’ command is missing (it’s useful for adding PPAs and other repositories), then simply run:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

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