This weekend I finished migrating this blog over to WordPress, thus ending a six-month experiment with Typo, the WordPress-like blog tool built on top of the web application framework Ruby on Rails. I originally went to Typo for two reasons: To evaluate RoR performance on my ISP (The much-maligned Dreamhost) and to keep up with the numerous blog platforms available floating about in the ether. In the end, I gained a better understanding of some determining success factors for open source software projects.

(more…)