About this blog
As you have probably noticed, this blog does not look like any of the popular blogging software or hosted blogs (Community Server, WordPress, Blogger). Instead I decided to create my own blog, something that fits nicely into this website.
When I decided to start a blog, one requirement was that it should look like as if it is part of my website. It should not be a separate application, and it should not be hosted somewhere else. So my options were to either customize an open source blog, or write my own. I decided to do the latter, because I think it would just take too much time to figure out how someone else's code works, and what to change, versus starting from scratch.
Or to be honest, I have not (yet) written any blogging software. Most of what I publish is static, so it does not take that much time to do everything manually. After all, it is just an XML file. The RSS 2.0 Specification gives all the necessary information to either develop your own blogging software, or as in my case, to write the XML file manually.
So, what will this blog be about? Pretty much anything that comes to my mind, and I feel is worth writing about. In general, it will be related to IIS, SQL Server, development or Windows, but other topics may as well be included.
What makes this blog different to many other blogs is that I do not write the complete article in the <description> element. Instead I write a synopsis, and the <link> element points to the full article. This makes it perfect to publish the content of the <description> element on your website together with other feeds as a service to your visitors. Just make sure you honor the ttl element and don't pull content each and every second.
At last, I hope you will enjoy reading this blog.
Published 2006-12-30 15:50 GMT+0100 by Kristofer Gafvert