BlogEngine powered

It seems I have a thing for blog engines. I started building one that I used for a while. It worked well, but I only had some of the many features I wanted and I had limited time to work on it. I moved to Das Blog and then last week to SubText after changing hosting providers to get better SQL Server support. Then, on Wednesday, I ran across a href="http://www.codeplex.com/blogengine"BlogEngine.

BlogEngine is a new open source .NET based blog project lead by a href="http://blog.madskristensen.dk/"Mads Kristensen of .NET Slave fame. It is entirely based on ASP.NET 2.0, it is very lightweight, and I'm really excited about it. It reminds me of my original blog a lot, but further along and nicer. The feature list is not as complete as other blog projects out there, but what is here seems well done and I believe it will add features quickly.

I upgraded everything over to BlogEngine this weekend and converted my old blog theme it to work with BlogEngine. I really like it and look forward to the future of BlogEngine.

It is a great code project to download and read if nothing else. You can learn a lot just from the code itself and the project isn't so huge you get lost trying to find your way. It is XML based so no database is required. Simply download, open it and run.