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Posts tagged "migration"

Moving from Windows Phone to Android

 I'm a fan of Windows Phone. I like the design and the UX way more than its competition. I'd been a satisfied user of WP8.1 for years. However, since my old phone had died and I had to buy a new one, and Windows 10 Mobile turned out to be slow and buggy to the point of being completely useless, I had to switch. This post documents the good, the bad and the ugly of my experience. (Note: I'm I'm not at all convinced of iPhone's superiority, but even if I were, its price is prohibitive. I stick to...
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Yet another blog migration.

 This blog started some four years ago on Tumblr, but that didn't last very long. WordPress is popular and praised, so I decided to go with it. Now I'm moving to Ghost [https://ghost.org/]. This post talks a bit about what I liked (and didn't like) about all of those technologies. WordPress WordPress might have started as a blogging platform, but later became a CMS as well. That is good if you need a CMS - but a total overkill for my needs. Still, it had many things going for it. One of them wa...
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Migrating from Shelfari to Goodreads with OpenRefine

 It seems that most of my friends are on (or have moved to) Goodreads. I like it a lot less than Shelfari, but I’m starting to think I’ll have to switch anyway. So naturally, I’m looking to migrate my data. How to do it depends on how lazy you are. If you don’t mind doing some manual work, there’s this guide [http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-migrate-from-shelfari-to-goodreads/] that I’ve used as reference. If you’d rather use OpenRefine [openrefine.org/download.html] and save yourself the tro...
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