So I really like Movabletype, alot of functionality with plugins and documentation. I really like wordpress with its huge community of themes and plugins. Although plugins are more difficult to find for it, mainly I think because it is free.
Anyways, where I am going with this post is that I really liked the built in blog roll feature (basically a list manager.) Previously I was using PHP to parse and format a text file that contained my links. With a blogroll I can do it through my db and not have to shell in everytime I want to add urls. So I started searching for one for MT.
Here is the only thing I could find : MTBlogroll by Arvind Satyanarayna. After spending quite a bit of time troubleshooting why it wouldn’t work, the final conclusion was that 1and1 has something setup weird in their installation of BerkelyDB.
So thus I began the move to mySQL. Should be pretty easy according to the documentation (h4h4h4.) Anyways, setup the sql info and started the import. Makes about 15 seconds into the import and errors out with no error. WTF. Spent two hours searching the MT knowledge base for answers.. nothing.
This was the point where I said screw it. Fresh install time baby. So I backed up all my entries, templates, css changes and plugins and started fresh. Luckily installation and importing all my old entries went smooth and everything works now.
In short, blogroll is great, as long as you are running mySQL.
In other news, I am now also doing db driven dynamic publishing. Kind of cool even though I don’t think my site will ever utilize it.. more cowbell baby.