Migrating to Typo

Posted by ryan
at 3:28 PM on Tuesday, May 09, 2006

I’m in the middle of migrating my blog from the fine Java-based blogging app Pebble to the Rails poster-child, Typo. Just time for a change in pace, nothing against Pebble.

So, if you’re seeing this post in your reader chances are you’re also seeing duplicates. Sorry ‘bout that… This also means that I don’t think most of the comments are going to be preserved though I will try pulling over the popular posts so not all is lost.

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  1. Vernon – May 10, 2006 @ 05:04 PM
    What was the motivation behind changing blog engine from pebble? I am currently using blojsom and was considering trying pebble. Should I bother?
  2. Ryan Daigle – May 10, 2006 @ 08:22 PM
    The impetus behind the move had nothing to do with Pebble. Pebble has served me great for about two years now. However, I was consolidating my many sites and projects into an all-Rails hosting stack - and there was no room for the Java-based pebble. Beyond the choice of language and platform, I also wanted something with a better theming engine and more community support. While the list of pebble blogs is long and growing - it's my impression that Typo has a slightly more vocal and active community. Feature-wise, the stable version of Typo actually has less than Pebble. So - I don't think you'll be disappointed at all if you're going to give Pebble a whirl. I believe the new 2.0 release will have a better templating engine too, which would alleviate my only major gripe with it. Let me know how it goes...