DeeKnow’s Grotto

Well the time has come to finally bid goodbye to Radio Userland

I began blogging in the workplace in January of 2002 after taking a bite of the Userland cool-aid courtest of then colleague Piquet. He was using Frontier which was Dave Winer’s OO-database/scripting-language platform tool and I decided to look into Radio, Frontiers little brother at the time.

Radio did the trick at the time as I was the only one blogging, then when one of my other team-mates got the bug we sorted out a way for the both of us to blog to the same site using seperate copies of the tool. We should really have moved onto Manilla, another of Userland’s products which at the time let you host multiple blogs on the one site, but there were licensing and other (mostly local support) issues which meant we had to look for an alternative.

While we moved onto MovableType at work I decided to persist with Radio at home, bought myself a copy, and really havent had any complaints, I run the client on my home PC, I havent upgraded it since 2003 and its worked like a charm. The nice thing is owning my own data. The object-database is sitting on my home machine, not in some MySQL database on a remote host.

This tho is something of a double-edged sword, and for some time I’ve been a little frustrated with not being able to edit through-the-web when I’m away from home. I knocked up all sorts of dodgy include-file and PHP based band-aids to use when away, but these meant I had to push that stuff back into Radio when I got home again.

So it is I finally made the decision to use a web-server hosted product, and seeing as my current web host had Wordpress as a bundle install option, and that I’ve liked what I’ve seen and read of Wordpress over the last year or so, I’ve taken the plunge and installed the thing as a replacement for Radio.

So long Radio… and Userland…. it was fun while it lasted… 5-years aint bad