Old blog posts added

[UPDATE 09/20/2014] I have completed Drupal migration.

[UPDATE 09/28/2014] I’ve added my old Movable Type posts.  Still a lot of cleansing that has to happen and relinking of images.

[UPDATE 09/30/2014] I have cleansed and reformatted posts to Jan 2003. Still trying to figure out if I should bring in the comments.

I have finally begun the arduous process of importing posts from 4 different platforms:

  • Octopress: November 2011 – July 2013 (completed)
    • This was easy–everything was using markdown and there wasn’t much content.
  • Drupal: September 2008 – April 2011 (completed)
    • At the time, I wanted to save hosting costs and was self-hosting it off a linux server from my home. I migrated the install to a virtual machine so I have a functioning Drupal 6 install.
  • Textpattern: November 2005 – October 2007 (completed)
    • This was a bit trickier.  I had the SQL export from the database using an old version of Textpattern (4.0x).  I was able to get the database loaded onto a modern install of Textpattern and was able output the RSS feed to import to WordPress.
  • MovableType: Feb 2002 – July 2004 (imported, data cleansing in-progress)
    • All I have is the static files for this.  Will need to investigate a bit more.
    • Imported, cleansing posts.

Hopefully I will figured out a solution for Drupal and the Movable Type pages.  It would be nice if I could retain comments, but that is a long shot.