DerekAllard.com has completed the transformation into ExpressionEngine, but it’s not live yet (want to migrate the data first).  It took all of about 2 hours after I finally forced myself to sit down in front of my computer and turn off my email.  Funny how your own “personal” stuff always seems to take a back seat to “important” work, but I’ve just finally grown frustrated with the roll-my-own solution.

I’m really, really, happy with the codebase I built for this site in Code Igniter, but the problem is that every time I want a new feature I need to go fix it up.  And also, in honesty, it pains me to see all the kick ass features in EE that I haven’t built into my blog yet… and well, I want to be one of the cool kids.

So now the really painful part - data migration.  Anyone who’s ever worked with legacy system and/or code can tell you want a pain that can be.  The good news, moving the posts over is a pretty straight-forward process.  The bad news, moving the comments over won’t be.

Sigh… no rest for the wicked I suppose!