Like most people running Movable Type these days, I'm in a constant stuggle to deal with spamming problems, even for a site like mine that's never updated, much less read by anyone.
So what's an aspiring young man to do? Install typo, obviously! Check out the new site at typo.andywismar.com. It's got a lot of really nice whiz-bang front-end features (Post a comment, then check out the search box. Just try it, trust me), and I'm hoping that the super-spam bots will pass by without mt*.cgi links everywhere. We'll see about that one.
More than anything else, this was an excuse to continue my Railseducation, and it was nice to hop into some code and be able to hit the ground running, rather than developing another simple CRUD app. I'm finally starting to think in 'ruby mode', where weird blocks and collects and '@@' start popping into my head. I've got another writeup in the works with the various changes I made to get everything right around here, but I'll save that for later. Moving forward, that's the part that scares me the most. With new releases and features being added everyday, I could spend a lifetime keeping up and porting my customizations to each release. But hopefully things will settle down a little. I even managed to GIMP up a little header graphic with fancy gradients, which effectively quadruples my lifetime graphic design achievement.
I also used the fabulous mt3.rb script detailed here to import my whole MT history. I think I've got some import quirks on some of my really old entries, but that's a problem for another day. Right now, I'm going to try to squash out one or two more bugs in the setup, and possibly move the whole old site over. Or move the old site away, and replace it with this one, at least.
Even if this is a horrendous failure, it did manage to get me a Rails/FastCGI setup on my production box, so watch out.
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