… and finally comes the time for Blogging!

For about a year now, I’m planning to set up blog form my geeky programming thoughts, experiences and ideas. Even though I set up my first blog in march of 2006 on my collage page and those were my PHP years, so it was driven by universally popular WordPress blog engine.

Today I tried to see that blog but the password for the database user was old and I couldn’t get to the blog content. So, I try to find the password and when I found it I couldn’t change my wp-config.php because the /home directory on our college has no space left. Yes, and I need it at least 10 minutes to figure it why it won’t let me to create or update a file on disc.  Do you want proof?  No problem!

Veleri server has no space on disk!

But I shall try, once when the space won’t be an issue, to bring back my old blog which it is written in Croatian language, but it’s still my first blog, and I want to have reference to it.

Last year I started doing a lot .NET coding because I really don’t like PHP as language especially its Object-Oriented part. So few days before that I was giving seminar in Opatija at CASE conference, or exactly it was CASE 20 last year, I setup my first ASP.NET blog on Graffiti CMS by Telligent. Graffiti is pretty simple and powerful blog and CMS tool. Its proprietary software but have its Expression Edition that allow only 3 publishers, which was more than enough for me.

But I was searching something different and Open Source so I first find dasBlog. Mainly because I like blog and figure of Scott Hanselman, and he is also a coordinator of dasBlog, but after few hours playing with it, I found that I don’t like dasBlog. So, I started to search and the next victim vas BlogEngine.NET. That was love at first sight and I really, really love this blog engine (Yes, how silly it sound “I really love BlogEngine.NET blog engine!”). His default version has XML based content so I, with no time spend, found videos how to setup SQL Server based content. Now, I was having I blog, but still no inspiration what to write, I wrote one post and also have one comment from someone thanking me for my post.

Then a some months ago my host provider erase all from my site and database. So I was trying to setup BlogEngine.NET (I think it was version 1.4.5) but I couldn’t set it to work. I have trouble adding entry and commenting the posts. So i setup Graffiti CMS one more time, but final rescue came from news feed of releasing BlogEngine.NET 1.5, and much more rescue came from Al Nyveldt’s screencast and BlogEngine.NET was set it in half hour. With no problem at all.

I could say that Scott Hansellman is one to blame for his presentation on Devscovery in NYC with “Social Networking to Be a Better Developer and Keep/Get Jobs” and of course my geeky co-worker in Multilink Hrvoje Hudoletnjak who has tweet about it.

All I have to do right now is posting on my blog and learn to make new theme for my blog and replace this one. There’s also a BlogEngine.NET extensions to download and set up especially ones for source code.

Because this is my programming blog the default language for all post will be English and no Croatian at all!

UPDATE: On 19.7.2009 due to constant spams on BlogEngine blog engine I decide to go for blog engine WordPress, mainly because its great anti-spam plugin called Akismet.