This weekend I finally got around to starting (and finishing) one of those projects Ive had in the back of my head for a while now. That is to update my blog software away from dasBlog and to a fresh codebase. While the dasBlog software was good, it was particularly overkill for my needs and it added a lot of overhead - plus the codebase was massive so maintainance wasnt so straight forward and always put me off
The new blog engine is a fairly simple one using ASP.NET 2.0 and Bamboo for an object prevalence engine. A few hours of solid coding followed by a bunch of pottering with HTML/CSS following.
Some of the things Ive sorted out with this update are:
Some things left on the Todo list are:
Apologies in advance if you are consuming this via RSS since you will get a fresh set of feed items. Ive only migrated across a basic set of content from this year, so there shouldnt be too much in the way of baggage.
Of course, now I get to find all the bugs.. but thats part of the fun. Let me know if you find anything. Ive only had the chance to test it in IE6/7, Firefox (from the web side of the world) and IE7 and SharpReader from the RSS side of the world. Hopefully all ok outside of that..