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Plan thrice, blog once

I’m changing the category organization on this blog at the moment because the “Tech” category was getting too large and was dwarfing the other categories in size. It really sucks going through over a hundred old posts and re-categorizing them. Don’t put yourself into a situation where you have to do it. Plan thrice, blog once.

Looking through all of these old posts, I can’t help but critique some. Some were good, others okay, and some truly bad. Here’s a really bad one: I blogged about how no blog posts would be posted that day.

I guess I lied?

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One Response to “Plan thrice, blog once”

  1. arensb Says:
    March 9th, 2008 at 19:44

    You did automate it, though, right?

    I mean, the way I would do it would be to dump the titles and post IDs of the “Tech” posts to a file, annotate each post with a new subcategory, then Perlify that file into a series of SQL statements to move those posts to their new subcategories.

    Though I can see how one’s eyes might glaze over and one’s brain go numb after slogging through a bunch of old posts to see which subcategory they belong in.

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