Ben Buckman.net

After months of working on an overhaul of BenBuck.net in my spare time, it's finally here. Welcome to BenBuckman.net 2.0 Beta.

I've totally rebuilt the site with Drupal. My Twitter feed is now integrated into my blog. The site is no longer hosted on my home server (Vista with a crazy Apache/IIS reverse-proxy patchwork), but is now on a proper Linux virtual machine hosted by SliceHost. (A toast to the hundreds of hours I've spent becoming a de facto sysadmin to get that working!)

There are still kinks to work out in the new site, content to migrate from the old site, and old URL paths to redirect. There is also a whole bunch of additional functionality and content that I want to put here. That's why I'm calling this a beta for now. But waiting for everything to be perfect before launch would have lasted forever, so here it is!

Among the technical challenges involved in the transition was the migration of my blog content from Blogger to Drupal. It proved to be very difficult, and I ended up coding a module, aptly titled Crazy Blogger Migrator, to do it. (I've posted the module here in my new Projects section for public consumption, and will put it on drupal.org soon.)

To my loyal readers asking why I've neglected my blog lately, I promise I'll get back to a regular blogging routine (albeit not as obsessively as during the election campaign, thankfully).

Please send any feedback, comments, suggestions, bug reports, etc to me, ben at benbuck dot net. I hope you enjoy the new format.