Jake’s Progress has migrated to WordPress (about bloody time too!). The blog is now called Jake’s Progress II to distinguish it from the previous incarnation. The original Jake’s Progress will be temporarily preserved in aspic but all updates will be here at Jake’s Progress II.
Please bear with us while we get everything working. If you view the blog through your feedreader, you’ll need to update your RSS feed.
Still to do:
The original Jake’s Progress ran on Blogger via FTP. I’m grateful to Blogger & subsequently Google for their service, which I used free from 2004 -2010.
To publish to my own domain as a relatively early adopter of Blogger, I had chosen a set up where I used the Blogger tool to publish to my own server space at trusty Oneandone . And I’d never got round to changing it. When Google announced they were pulling support for Blogger-via-FTP I hummed & hawed. I thought about some of the other blogging tools and considered the costs of a premium hosted service. I thought about migrating to Blogger lock, stock and barrel, as Blogger would have liked me to do.
I eventually decided it was time to move to WordPress:
I thought seriously about hosting my own version of WordPress on our server space. But – frankly – I want to spend my time either playing with Jake or writing about it, not twiddling WordPress software server-side. That would have felt too much like work (or my old work). I decided to use the hosted wordpress.com, to continue to store my images at my web host, and to pay a small annual fee to redirect traffic to my domain name.
In addition to the help pages at Blogger and WordPress, resources which I found helpful as I planned were:
So over the last few evenings I have
1. exported my blog from Blogger
2. converted it from Blogger xml to WordPress xml
3. run a test upload into WordPress.com
4. cheered!
5. repeated steps 1-3 for real
6. changed the DNS settings on our web host
7. coughed up a small annual fee for WordPress.com to redirect the blog to jakesprogress.info
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There will be a make-over sometime in the near-ish future. But right now I’m frantically finishing the migration steps so I can get on with the more interesting things in life, i.e. playing with Jake & writing about it.
Hi, we’ve recently adopted a rescued lurcher called Clyde.
He is lovely! I’ve found reading your blog really interesting and wondered if you have any training tips/hints. Clyde has only been with us for a month and only off the lead in enclosed areas a few times so far. He is also ever so slightly aggressive with other dogs, well this has only happened 3 times out of about a million dogs, but anyway it would be nice to know it won’t happen! What was Jake like when you first got him?
I saw that you used a book called, control unleashed, is this the main way you trained Jake? Thanks in advance Emma & Ania xxx
Hi Emma & Ania
Sorry to take so long to reply. Things have been hectic with us. Clicker training, which is a technique used in the Control Unleashed book, was our breakthrough technique. It’s how assistance dogs and service dogs are trained these days. There are lots of books to help you get started. Good luck!