We Be Bloggin'!

The blog is finally live! After much procrastination and denial I've spent about a week developing the blog portion of this site. It's just that I feel it will be easier to share smaller pieces (as opposed to bigger articles) and exchange knowledge faster. What you see here is a blog powered by a small CMS of my own making. Why design my own blog engine? As Oracle put it, "What do men with power want? More power." I get more control over the code and I can tweak it any way I want it. It's been exciting to use a whole slew of ASP.NET tricks during the development. There are two HttpModules involved—one for navigation and page redirects and one for HTTP compression (more on this later), a page filter, an XSLT transform to streamline the RSS feed, a CAPTCHA, etc. Good things.

Articles are not going away. I truly love researching various subjects of ASP.NET development, and the deeper the research the more satisfaction I receive. That's why I've been trying to provide comprehensive coverage in my articles.

The blog, just like the site in general, will be dedicated to ASP.NET development in the light of web standards. This doesn't imply that every article and post will be about ASP.NET and web standards. It's either former or that latter, or both.

As the blog code is fresh I would greatly appreciate a short email if you notice something is broken. I couldn't get my hands on any MAC browsers so any insight will be greatly appreciated.