Roughly 2 minutes to import 1583 entries.
Almost ready to make the switch to blojsom 3.0!
Oh man, what about this entry? DOH!
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For the blojsom 3.0 import functionality, I'm using the ROME library. I've been augmenting the syndication feeds to allow for blojsom-specific tags on items to specify things like author, whether or not comments/trackbacks/pingbacks were allowed on the original entry, etc...
All of this took about 10 minutes. There's a good tutorial on writing sample modules for parsing or generation. Works as advertised!
I'll also be making available a template for people to use to import all of their existing entries from their blosjom 2.x install to their blojsom 3.x install. It'll have all the tags all done up right proper.
RE: Migrating from Blojsom to Pebble
Seems like a lot of work when you probably could've added a new template and flavor to blojsom, template: pebble.vm, flavor: export. All you'd need in the pebble.vm would be the proper tags for the pebble XML blog data format. Then you'd just have blojsom display all entries and use ?flavor=export on your blog URL and save the resulting page to disk. Done.
I'd seen a little bit of traffic out there related to bloggers installing and using Pebble, and since the only blogs I read are those of other developers, I thought there might be something to it. Not only did Pebble install and configure like a dream (1 hour to determine that I was ahead of the published docs, as opposed to 2 days with Blojsom's up-to-date docs), but I thought it looked a lot nicer out of the box. So, I thought I'd try the switch.
I guess there are always edge cases. I've only had a few people say the blojsom Quickstart bundle didn't work as advertised, i.e. setup in less than 5 minutes.
Oh well. Sorry it didn't work out.
P.S. - blojsom 3.0 M1 is available.
