The first archived entry that I’ve done for this is my October 2006 post on Converting Generic Objects to Class Instances.  The .zip file is no longer available on my site.  Instead, the source code has been pushed to https://github.com/darronschall/ObjectTranslator and a .zip file can be downloaded directly from GitHub.

I have not yet had a chance to create GitHub repositories for all of the content in my archives.  However, I feel this is the right thing to do moving forward.

Again I encourage you to let me know if there is a download missing on my archive site that you’d like to have access to.  As more people identify code that they’re trying to use but can no longer find due to broken links, I will create more repositories on GitHub to house the code.

I’m holding off on blindly moving everything over because some code is too old to be useful.  Other smaller, snippet-like code will probably be created via GitHub Gists rather than full-fledged repositories.

I originally created my weblog as a way to share content, code, and ideas.  A lot has changed since my first few posts.  Now that sites like GitHub exist it only makes sense to leverage a social coding hub to host open source code.  By pushing content to GitHub, others can easily and freely fork, fix bugs, add features, and submit pull requests.  It’s no longer a one-way-street or isolated environment.  The move to GitHub will allow many of my readers to share, and get credit for, the additions that they’ve built on top of ideas that I’ve originally shared over the years.

Three cheers for social coding!

The old content has been uploaded, the http://archive.darronschall.com subdomain is up and running, and all of the old incoming links to my old weblog should now be redirecting to their new home.  Please be advised that some functions on the archive site do not work anymore (searching, commenting, etc.).  However, if you’re still having troubling getting to any of my old content let me know and I’ll see what I can do to help.

In the meantime, here are links to some of my more popular (and now archived) entries:

• Creating Default, Cancelable Event Handlers (January 2008)
• Mate vs. Swiz (October 2009)
• Flash Camp Philadelphia 2009 FlexUnit 4 slides and examples (November 2009)
• Convert Generic Objects to Class Instances (October 2006)
• On [Transient], ObjectUtil.copy(), and Casting (August 2007)
• ‘No brain’ getters and setters (March 2005)
• FC64 4 teh win! (September 2006)
• Announcing FVNC, the Open Source VNC Client for Flash (August 2006)

Now that my old content lives on and incoming links have been preserved, I think it’s time I finally start writing about all of the new things I’ve been learning, working on, and involved with.

Onward!

One thing that hasn’t changed during that time was my hosting provider and my weblog software.  To make a long story short, after becoming frustrated with both I’ve decided to drop my ColdFusion plan and MovableType installation in favor of WordPress.

Unfortunately this move has resulted in a lot of dead links to content that no longer exists on my domain.  I’ve made a local backup of everything, and if you’ve come here looking for something in particular you can still find all of my old content online via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine for darronschall.com/weblog/.

I’m still somewhat undecided as to the best way to preserve 8 years of Internet history from my old weblog.  Not everything I wrote in the past has relevance today but there are still some good articles that are worth saving.  Plus, it’s all Internet history.  I feel that it’s important to keep it around if I can… especially the entries that people may still find useful even today.

I’m expecting that I’ll bring my previous content back online through an archive.darronschall.com subdomain with a URL Rewriter to ensure all of the old links still work.  For now, if you’re searching for something and you can’t find it on the Wayback Machine, please let me know and I’ll try to get a link for you.  My archived content should be available shortly.