In order to convert this site and Visual Studio Hacks to Graffiti I had to come up with a way to redirect all the existing links, while Graffiti includes an excellent migrator tool it doesn’t have any way to handle redirects. In both cases I wanted to avoid having to do a ton of manual work to do the redirects.
So I decided to write a graffiti plugin that would check the request against a regular expression and then redirect the request to the correct resource. Writing a graffiti plugin is not easy, there isn’t much documentation, and I had to write most of the UI in javascript to do what I wanted, but I am happy with the result. (and thanks to Jayme for answering all my questions)
Here is a quick screenshot:
I toyed with the idea of trying to sell the plugin, but in the end I don’t think it would be worth it and would rather just put it out there as open source and hopefully other’s will get some use out of it and maybe step in and fix any bugs or add new features.
I uploaded it and released it to Google Code.
-James
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