Jeffrey Zeldman moved his “daily report” from hand-edited markup to WordPress. Another of the class of 1998 who’ve moved from handcoded or homebrew to one of the major blogging tools.
- Rafe migrated his homebrew system to Movable Type last year.
- Rebecca Blood switched from hand-edited markup to Movable Type at the start of 2006.
- I don’t know when Pete switched RasterWeb to WordPress.
- I switched to WordPress last month.
- I think Dori and Tom were one of the first from our cadre to use Moveable Type.
The current homebrew bloggers are the alpha geeks from the second and third generation of bloggers. Folks such as Sam Ruby, Tim Bray, Norm Walsh, Kate Rhodes, and several of the Atom hackers.
By the way, I’ve got a copy of Movable Type running in parallel with WordPress (it’s easy to copy from one blog to another in MarsEdit,) so another switch may be in the offing.
While I’m on the topic of migrating your blog, Todd Ditchendorf has a nice solution: dump your current MySQL tables to XML, and use XSLT to transform them into a target import format.
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I moved RasterWeb! from my old home-brew system (which was written in perl, and a little bit like blosxom) to WordPress in January of 2005.
Sadly, we don’t count as ever having been home-brew or hand-coded. We started with Blogger in November 1999 and switched to MT in 2002.
Dan Lyke of Flutterby is the last old-timer I know of still running his own blog software.
I am still rolling my own although these days it’s just flat files and shell scripts rather than the usual toxic mix of databases and complicated wrapper code. :-)
Hey, don’t forget about me.
I think Aaron has an excuse, he’s been busy on another project lately. :)
Still HomeBrew since the beginning 2000 or 2001.
bash python XSLT to create XHTML RDF