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Techupdate of MovableType

I did an upgrade from MovableType 3.01D to 3.121 as it has some major and minor improvements, including a small speed boost rebuilding the log. I have also upgraded the back-end of MovableType from Berkely DB to MySQL and changed all static content to dynamic content.

Probably this sounds like an odd combination Chinsese, Russian and Swahili to you, but it basically means that there are severe speed-improvements and the log used a more stable and common used back-end. You don't have to wait 13 seconds when posting a comment anymore, it should now be done in 4. Same for Nicky and me using the publishing-features, instead of having to wait 23 seconds adding an entry should be less than 5 seconds or so. And that's definetely something worth mentioning as I was freaking out having to wait half a minute just adding some content or even more changing the lay-out of the site.

To be quite honest, I already did the upgrade last saturday but somehow Murphy's Law stroke so the upgrade wasn't quite as successfull as it should have been and I couldn't use all the improvements coming with 3.121. Duplicate entries showed up on the log but where definetely not in the database. I've upgraded my own weblog (which is 99% identical to this one) exactly the same way and that was 100% successfull after screwing the complete log, so I was completely lost... Today I tried one of the last resorts, exporting all the entries, clearing the whole weblog and re-importing them again. You might have seen that the weblog was actually 5 minutes offline and after that all the entries where publishes by Murf instead of most by Nicky. But, it seems to be fixed by now...

Again: if anything looks strange, let me know, I simply can't test every single page...