Moving Forward

25. May 2010 18:22 by gogman in BlogEngine.NET, General, Open Source  //  Tags: ,   //   Comments (0)

benlogo80[1] I have been blogging on and off since 1996. I have always used a CMS that I have written myself. About three years ago I had finally had enough with blogging and converted my website over to a simple page with some image galleries and my Twitter feed.

Fast-forward a few years and once again the blogging bug returns. This time however, I wanted to concentrate on writing words and not a brand new CMS.

So I began looking around the Internet for a suitable system that met three simple requirements:

  1. The application should be open source, have the source code available, be .Net based, and be in active development.
  2. It must be secure, well written, extensible, and be standards compliant.
  3. It must support XMLRPC functionality so can use a WYSIWYG editor – in this case Microsoft's Live Writer.

I thought these requirements were going to be impossible to meet and I am happy to say I was wrong. So very wrong! There is BlogEngine.NET!

After spending a few weeks playing around with BlogEngine.NET and going through the code, I have to say I am very impressed. This is a remarkably robust and well written application. The user community is quite active and the development cycle is regular and ongoing. The data storage support is quite robust and supports everything from XML to SQLite. The application platform is highly extensible and remarkably easy to write for. All in all, I highly recommend BlogEngine.NET for all your blogging needs.

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aBorn naked, unable to communicate, walk, or feed himself, Gogman overcame these handicaps to become a technologist, decent open water sailor, pretty darn good cook, husband, cat lover, and mediocre blogger.

Gogman works as the CTO at Atomic Goat Studios, an independent game studio start-up located in Southern California developing games for the PC, XBox 360, and Windows Phone 7.

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