Learn MS .NET

Having played with several blogging engines over the last few years and having experience in .NET programming since 2000.  I decided to take a look at BlogEngine.net.  I've previously worked with blogs based on .Text, dasBlog and Community Server and they all were interesting and worked well. I was just not crazy about the upgrading of some of these other engines.

Plus as a developer I always like to get under the covers of what is going on in the code to get a good understanding of what the software is doing. Well while browsing http://www.asp.net/ and taking a look at the starter kits, I saw the BlogEngine.net project there.  I proceeded to take a look at the project site for the starter kit and then took a look at the project site on CodePlex.  I then decided to give it a try.

A few years ago I had started work on creating a community site here at Learn MS NET and it didn't pan out quite like I wanted so I had basically mothballed the domain.  I had also been playing around with blog engines at a URL for my business http://blog.shancer.com/ which I had written a few articles for.  So I made the decision in early December to combine both my mothballed site's content which only had a few articles of interest and relevance and the blog posts from my business blog.

Which has led me to using BlogEngine.net and currently working with the latest build from last night at this point.  I ported all my content from dasBlog which was the blogging engine I was using with BlogML.  It took some playing around to get it complete but it worked fantastically for pulling that content in.  I then took and renamed my old community web site and proceeded to copy all the articles out and place on this new site.

Now that i'm becoming familiar with how the source works for BlogEngine.net I will be developing some extensions and helping improve some of the extensions that are already available.  Look for more on this in the future.

As a self-proclaimed geek and someone who keeps up with the changing face of the Internet.  I've been a fan of Robert Scoble's for approximately 4 years now.  I have read his Scobleizer blog and watched his personal life spill out on the Internet and seen how it has affected him.  He's very outspoken on all the things he does whether it is good or bad and freely gives his opinion. 

And now Facebook has shut him down for breaking their Terms of Service.  It shall be interesting to see what comes of this. 

Well here goes my first post to my blog from Windows Live Writer. I'm hoping to be able to use this editor as my default editing tool for my blog.  The install went fantastic and the configuring of the tool was great.  They even have an option for working with DasBlog within the configuration.

So far it's great lets see how it goes

Well I said I would write a bit about me.  I've been programming computers now for approximately 15 years professionally.  Prior to this I had played with programming while I was in school. 

I have two beautiful children of my own Shanda and Spencer as well as my future wife Melissa who has three children of her own, Jody, Cheyenna and Nikita.  Makes for a large family and out goes the purchase of a sports car.  We have a lot of fun together.

I currently train in Chito-Ryu Karate and have been off and on for approximately 16 years.  Currently getting ready for my next grading which is about 9 months away.  More about this as the time comes along.

Well I'm sure I'll reveal more of myself as I develop this and get it rolling.

Well since my last blog site got corrupted I guess it's time to try and get one of these off the ground again.  My next blog post will be a little biographical about who I am. Until then I guess I have to get some more configuring done on this site.