A new direction

Ok, while at work I'm still kinda-sorta working with the Enterprise Library, that has - for a while anyway - been put on hold while I tossed onto a product to be delivered in January 07. This is something I haven't worked on, and must now get caught up in what it is and what it does, so the EntLib has to be put on hold.

On another note. I have a couple of other blogs, most hosted by places like this (blogger.com). One is hosted on my own. I mean, I host it on space I rent - it's not like I actually have access to the server guts or anything. For that blog (http://www.bigsibling.com), I have been using DotNetNuke. DNN is a great portal application. I use it several other places as well. And for what it is designed for, it does an exceptional job, and I wouldn't really want to use anything else for a portal application.

But (there is always a but - isn't there), for the blog I am using a blog module for DNN. While this works for the most part. Posting to it is a bit slow, and something just don't work as smoothly as I would imagine they should. I want to emphatically state that the product is a great and feature rich product. I have no real complaints about DNN or the blog plugin for DNN. The only thing is, the whole thing is a little bloated because it was not designed to be a blog application, but a porta application. So DNN has oodles of ultra-kewl features that I don't use on the blog itself.

With that in mind, I'm toying with the idear of creating a blog web appliction in .NET. I know, I know, there is dasBlog and probably some others. But hey, how can I learn new and exciting stuff if all I do is use other peoples stuff? Also, how can you laugh at all of my stupid mistakes if I don't jump into adventures like this? I mean, seriously, how can I provide your needed comic releif in any other way?

In preliminary research I did find this fairly (I think) comprehensive list of what a good blog application should have.

Anyway, this is what I'm thinking of. If you care, let me know if you think it is a worthy endeavour, or if you think I'm nutz.

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