Alex Mikhalev blog

As a long time perl developer, I have admired Movable Type (mt). So recently I decided to upgrade to MT5. In the end I decided to move from movable type to wordpress, but this is my notes:

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My blog finally moved to wordpress. If you find any links missing please post a comment. As a long time perl developer it is quite sad to admit that perl based Movable Type is worse than PHP based wordpress.

I am a bit fed up with MT, I looked at MT5 and as usual was seriously annoyed by MT backup behavior: I attempted to recover backup from mt 4 into clean mt 5 and hit usual wall with schema mismatch error. I believe recovery should work, no matter what. It should attempt to recover most of backed up data, even with error message.
And if I need to mess with database dumps and scripts, I am ready to move from MT.
Currently my choice is limited to:
WordPress – most of the people I read use it. Latex plugin works out of the box and MT import from text. Cons – I am sick of PHP code and if I need to hack it, I will be in seriously bad mood.
Jekill – can use git/hg for versions, I bet my computer is better suited for publishing latex with mixed html then server. Static pages generated. Cons – Ruby, I can’t say I know ruby, but I can hack the code.
Golbard – same as jekill but in python. I am pretty confident with python, but I will have to write movable type import.