Thoughts on the Science of Computing

I have finally migrated my site over to the YABE Blogging Engine.  This is a blogging engine I am writing in my spare time, of which I have very little.  I have also been assisted on this project by Volkan Uzun and Adnan Masood. 

Why do we need another blogging engine?  Well, we probably don't but I didn't think there was a very good asp.net blogging engine when I started this.  Wordpress is great and I have seen some cool stuff in rails and django, but there appeared to be a gaping hole in the asp.net world, although Das Blog is decent.

Asp.net MVC seemed to be the perfect platform to build something better.  In addition, I thought it would be educational as I have to use these technologies at my work.

I was hoping to get more collaborators as my time was limited with my graduate studies and work, and as I found that writing a fully featured blogging engine is quite a bit of work.  So instead, I have a barebones blogging engine with just a few basic features.

At this point, I am happy to just release this blog on the engine.  I have learned a lot about asp.net MVC in the process and Linq-to-Sql.  A lot of the code is still hacky especially in the views and handling of URL's etc.  I also learned a bit about CSS and html and who much there really is to know here.

Anyways, I am happy to get off commuity server and finally have my blog running on YABE, sans comments.

Time permitting I will add a few more basic features with comments being the highest priority.