Today is my last day at BoST interactive where I worked for almost seven years. At this time I made the transition from a fairly senior developer to a project manager, I was freed from the perils of HTML-embedded scripting languages to work on "real" server side systems and all that. All in all it has been an important and good time, but sometimes you just have to move on.
If you still have an email adress of mine that ends with @bost.de, remove it.
Before I start my new job there are more than two weeks of vacation ahead of me and my family, we'll make sure we will enjoy that time.
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Phew, took quite some time and effort, but now all old are here and archived, at the same time they went offline in the old blog.
Sorry for all the noise.
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Well, choosing the domain name turned out to be the hardest part of all. All bodewig.FOO domains have been taken. Even if bodewig.de looks as if it had been designed be me, it isn't. Oh, and it has been looking like it currently does for five years or more now.
I wanted a family-domain, maybe one of our children wants to start a blog one day? At least they'll need email addresses.
The next attempt was trying anagrams - a typical geek-reflex. A few lines of Perl later I realized that I have "I Web God" in my last name, oh that irony. Nothing that at least sounded well.
In the end my wife suggested to play with the first letters of our first names, and that it is - Sarah, Manuela, Florian and Stefan.
Boring, I know.
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My blog has moved from http://stefanbodewig.blogger.de/ to http://stefan.samaflost.de/blog, please update your links.
I've gone with blosxom and a rather conservative choice of plugins, I may switch to static rendering (at least partial) later. So far I haven't enabled search yet since I really want to use Lucene but didn't manage to set up the plugin within five minutes.
Migration of old articles is mostly manual, as I feared it was. I've moved all articles of this year and will go backwards gradually. The old articles will probably pop up in the feeds again, please bear with me.
Speaking of feeds, the new blog has both Atom and RSS feeds, and in the typical blosxom manner, feeds on each and every level. Since I may start blogging in German more than I did before, you most probably want to subscribe to my English-language-only feed (either http://stefan.samaflost.de/blog/en/index.rss or http://stefan.samaflost.de/blog/en/index.atom).
Right now trackbacks are (supposed to be) enabled, comments are not.
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OK, I've done it, I now rent a root server.
The virtualized hosts that have been available looked as if they were highly underpowered. If you share a box with 256 MB of RAM with nine other customers this may or may not work - depends on what the others are doing. Many thanks to all who've responded to my question.
The machine runs SuSE - not exactly my favorite distro - and of course I managed to lock myself out with my very first attempts to use Yast. Far too many services running, too many ports open, and when I tried to change it somehow sshd wouldn't come back again (or my firewall rules have been too strict).
MTA is postfix, which should be OK once I learn my way around it. Spamassasin is installed as well. Apache2 with a load or modules as HTTPd. There also is a MySQL installation that might be needed by the installed confixx software, I'll need to find out.
Once the MTA is up and running the way I want it to work, I'll have to select a blogging backend and (manually, I'm afraid) import what I have. I'm torn between blosxom - which matches my workflow pretty well - and wordpress since it wouldn't require me to think about layouts and styles. I'm no designer at all, in case that isn't obvious from this site's look.
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