After several years of running our blog on Pebble we’ve made the move to WordPress, and it’s pretty exciting! But how did we get here? It turns out that migrating a blog from an unsupported platform is not very difficult, all you need is a bit of programming know-how and in a couple of hours you’ll be migrated!

Pebble stores all of its data in XML files on the server, WordPress data can be imported from WordPress eXtended RSS format. XML to XML pretty straightforward, you just need to pick a language! I figured I would try out Groovy since it seemed to offer some nice api’s for processing and producing XML.
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I recently ran up against a large XML file and legacy code that manipulated it.. the code had mysteriously stopped working, there were no unit tests and the XML file was large and had no line breaks. What do you do in this situation? Loading the 30MB file in any kind of editor made the

Eller nytt och nytt, har funnits i ett drygt år, verkar det som, men jag har aldrig hört talas om det förut. XX i XX Framework står för XML och XSLT. The primary goal of the XX Framework is to handle typical application CRUD (create, retrieve, update, delete) with little or no Java programming. Instead

Jag har alltid varit skeptisk till X-et i Ajax, dvs XML. Varför skapa och skicka ett så bökigt format som XML från servern, för att sedan processas i JavaScript, ett språk som inte så många är duktiga på? Nu har Rik Arends skapat JSLT, som ger möjlighet att processa XML med hjälp av JavaScript-syntax som