Software Migration
Following on from my previous post about software upgrades breaking things, I’ve spent a few days trying to finding a new piece of software to write these blog posts with.
My requirements weren’t terribly onerous - fast, easy to use, and created static web pages.
After looking at a few packages - both Free / Open Source and commercial, I have decided on “hugo”. It’s fast, relatively easy to use, very fast to generate site updates and generates static web pages. Perfect.
I’m now in the process of migrating everything from my previous package to hugo. It’s not been totally straight-forward, and I’ve had to tweak the theme a bit. (At least I could do that in hugo, unlike my other package.)
Update:
The entire site got migrated and cleaned up. It took a weekend, but I was able to cut-n-paste all the content out of the original application and then tidy it all up. Digging out and then sorting and collating the images took a bit of work, but I got there in the end…