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Importing Blogger Content to Drupal Using Wordpress

Posted Fri, 2009-06-12 23:34 by matthew

When I first started blogging in 2004 I signed up for a Blogger account to get on this blogging bandwagon.  We secured dogstar.org in the late 90’s and ran a small site on an LC III running Quid Pro Quo from a shared Ethernet connection in the Blacksburg Electronic Village.  I wasn’t blogging at that point-but I was writing about my thesis work and posting it to the site.  If you are interested in how dreadful the site looked back then, try looking on the WayBackMachine.  I actively blogged on blogger between 2004-2006 when I started playing with Drupal.  I cross posted for a time and then pretty much abandoned my Blogger account until I started using ping.fm.  ping.fm became a way for me to “store” all my tweets and generated 1000’s of individual posts.

BigDump MySQL Importer

Posted Thu, 2008-08-14 21:33 by matthew

I am not strong with the command line. As such, I rely on PHPMyAdmin to get things done in MySQL quickly. One of the big problems with PHPMyAdmin are the import limitations and timeout issues. In my case, my host's implementation of PHPMyAdmin doesn't even include the import function. In my last post, on upgrading to D6, I described a situation where I really needed to import a database, that I had performed the update on my laptop.

I used PHPMyAdmin to export the database on my live site and plopped it on my desktop. I fired up MAMP and went to MySQL. I created a new database and granted all to a new user on the blank database. I *tried* to import my database--which currently is about 56--and had no joy. I increased the file size and timeout length, but that didn't help me out--I could only get two out of 88 tables to import.

I needed a different solution. In comes BigDump.

Exporting Contacts From Plaxo

Posted Wed, 2007-07-11 04:43 by matthew

I was playing with the export features in Plaxo. I was looking to invite/link from my address book to Facebook. The export was simple. I downloaded a vCard from Plaxo and then imported the contacts in the vCard directly to FB.

Then the import tool in Facebook made exceedingly simple to check who I know that was already on FB and send invites to everybody who wasn't. It was slick and easy.

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