Luc Ippersiel

For those who don’t know me (or don’t know what I work on in my “spare” time) I take care of 4 sites/blogs:

• The primary blog is The Geek Effect, a collaborative blog between myself (as Editor-in-Chief), my bud Bob Starr (forgot his title), and other awesome geeks. We bring you anything and everything geeky.
• The second blog is my own (the one you are reading). It’s my site to share coding experiences and my random ramblings.
• The third blog is my wife’s art portfolio, Ippersionism. She showcases her works and uses it for work and networking.
• The last blog is my “company” site, Ippersoft. Currently it’s a placeholder until I decide what I will make as a software product. With the way the market has been for software I’m not sure if I should waste my time to code for the smartphone space (it’s quite saturated at the moment) or for the desktop. Eventually I’ll make up my mind and write about it.

For a while all these sites were working great but then WordPress upgraded their code and stopped supporting MySQL 4. All the sites were under that database version. I backed up all the posts from Geek Effect as xml files but they are much bigger than expected. I’ll have to edit each file and cut out items (like tags) to make them smaller for import.

So now that I’ve created new sites in SQL 5 and WordPress 3.whatever, it’s a matter of getting the content back up. The other sites are simple, Geek Effect will require some work, and this site is a simple restart.

I’ve also create UAT versions of these sites (not indexed by search engines like Google) to work on prior to promoting it to the live site. This will avoid breaking of any sites.

So my Sunday is booked with site coding.

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