May 27, 2008

Vintage Mint

Posted by seed @ 4:49 PM

As an addendum to the previous post, that I erased, regarding the upgrade to MT 4.1, the blog spanned six years and had a DB text file that was nearly 5Mbs. That caused the latest crash of our dated installation of Berkley DB. Which leads us to MT 4.1. One of the new features is the ability to MultiBlog, or cross-reference content across multiple blogs, within the same installation of MT. I took that as an opportunity to divide the Mint into more manageable pieces. With that I brought back the old templates that have been used here over the years. Remember what we used to look like in 2006? How about 2004-2005? And then there is still my favorite, 2002-2003. For better or worse, I've kept them in their original format, only modifying a few things to make them sync with the more recent content. Things will continue to be posted here as it was. The old content will reside in its original format, as it was originally created. Looking back at it, I enjoy seeing where we've been and how much time we've wasted here. A few Tech Notes:
  1. The search function accesses all the mint's content: Mint Search for "clinton"
  2. The home page will still access all the content through the archives pulldown. Though, you will notice that the order of the archives is off. That's a product of the MT software. Long story short, each blog gets an ID# that seems to be only determined by the order in which the blogs were created. I created 2002-2003 after the current content. So, it comes in the order. I don't think I can fix that, as I cannot locate where the blog IDs are determined.
  3. I'm not sure we used the categories much prior to 2007, so that pulldown will just result in the recent content.
  4. Commenting is still open on old posts.

Comments

You think that is bad. I work for one of the worlds largest trading exchanges, not going to say which one, and we have a trading engine dependent system that runs on Berkely. Being converted to Oracle in the future.

Posted by: dutch | May 28, 2008 9:12 PM

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