\nFor the longest time, I didn't want to blog. I spend my working life creating technical content and writing about it, for one thing.\n<\/p>\n
\nFor another, I did something that can only be described as proto-blogging<\/a> during the Last Century, before there were good tools to do it. I had a lot to say and I was driven to say it, rather than continually answer technical questions e-mail, so I found a way. More recently, I haven't been as sure that anybody wanted to hear what I wanted to say. I also couldn't find a toolset I really wanted to use for the purpose. It's amazing how IDEs and editors spoil you, isn't it?\n<\/p>\n \nWhile I spend my time hopping between all kinds of languages while working, and if necessary could do everything in Visual Notepad<\/a>, most of my web work is done in .NET. Most of the clean and simple blog-content creator tools, on the other hand, are not. \n<\/p>\n \nI wanted something clean and simple. It didn't have to be perfect. I don't mind putting effort in to modify something, as long as it was written in code I can admire and respect. (Come to think of it, I may just have encapsulated an important definition: open source projects that succeed, and the coders that love them<\/em>, not to be confused with open source projects that turn into an unintentional imitation of the worst parts of corporate programming life<\/em>.)\n<\/p>\n \nI admire and respect a lot of non-.NET code, but it takes me longer to modify it properly and, again, this isn't supposed to be work.\n<\/p>\n \nWell… I found BlogEngine.NET<\/a> this weekend. And, so far, it is exactly what I was looking for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the longest time, I didn't want to blog. I spend my working life creating technical content and writing about it, for one thing. For another, I did something that can only be described as proto-blogging during the Last Century, before there were good tools to do it. I had a lot to say andRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-techspeak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}