After some unfortunate delays I have finally moved my blog/website to my own domain – abdussamad.com :). It feels great to have my very own domain and be able to post anything I bloody well feel like!

One thing I learned during this move is that, in practice, sqlite databases are less portable than mySQL ones! This is because few webhosts support sqlite databases. Most webhosts still run php 4 and they do not bother to install the sqlite extension. I think the reason they do not upgrade to php 5 is that it may require them to upgrade their legacy linux installations as well. On the other hand, almost all *nix hosts support mySQL. So I had to migrate s9y from a sqlite database to mysql. Despite
my best efforts I couldn’t do this migration via SQL dumps. Instead I had to import my entries using RSS. However, I took the opportunity to upgrade to the latest stable version of s9y – 1.0 🙂