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Expression Engine and other disasterous installs

// May 31st, 2004 // Tech

Yeah I know I seem to spend more time blogging about blog software than any other topic but I think the technology behind the concept is one of the more exciting aspects of this whole blog furore.

My install of EE was a little badly planned (they always seem to be) and resulted in a whole loadof problems ranging from the minor to the utterly ginormous. Thanks to all those who dropped a comment to point out these issues. Today has mostly been spent identifying, testing and bug fixing the templates and the structure of the site as well as implementing one of my better ideas (which I can’t tell you about or I’d have to kill you).

The main problems were a total absence of expandability for my expandable links, and a very cool, if slightly confusing, infinite template loop on my archive pages. Both have now been fixed along with a host of other small niggles.

A couple of people have suggested that the performance isn’t up to speed but I still have an ace up my sleeve for solving that one. I haven’t enabled template caching yet (cos I keep changing the templates) and hopefully when I do the system should speed up a bit.

Oh and you may have noticed that my RSS feed has moved. As soon as I get chance I’ll stick up a global redirect but the new feed locatiopns are advertised on the left sidebar … at the bottom … down a bit … there you go.

Oh and those of you that haven’t yet – please register. It makes commenting easy (yes I know ther is a problem with remembering your info – I’m working on it) and will, at some point, give you extra features. Registration takes a few minutes and is well worth it.