The short answer is, it broke.

I'm not entirely sure what happened. I think part of the GeekLog installation the site was running on got corrupted during the migration to the new server several months back, but I'm not certain. I went to use part of the site I hadn't used since before then, and it wouldn't work at all. I tried updating to a newer version of GeekLog and that only made things worse.

At this point, I had two options at this point. I could either trying rebuilding the installation from the existing data using GeekLog, or I could rebuild the whole site from something else. I've gone with the latter.

However, this time around, I building the site software up from scratch using CakePHP. I've been itching to play with their 1.2 beta version for awhile now anyway. The 1.1 version serves as the foundation a few sites I've written, but the beta has some new toys for me.

So far, I've gotten very basic entry functionality up and running, as well as the list of links. I'm hoping to have the comments, files and gallery added within the next month, as I get time to add them. We'll see how that goes.

And for the record, I haven't written any of the admin interface for the site yet. I'm posting this entry directly into the database.