Sunday, January 15, 2006
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I've always had a severe case of not-invented-here syndrome.  However, after taking a fresh look at dasBlog this weekend, I realized that there were a bunch of cool features that I was never going to get around to putting into my own blog application.  So, I decided to swallow my pride and take a serious look at converting.  Here's what I've discovered so far.
  1. dasBlog is nearly as brain-dead simple to set up as you can get
  2. 10 minutes of coding based on Scott's post and I had all my existing content imported into dasBlog
  3. dasBlog themes are extremely easy to modify and create
  4. Blog search with keyword highlighting is awesome
  5. Trackbacks, pings, comments in my RSS feed, and all the other goodies I've been missing
I've set up my old blog home page and RSS feed to automatically redirect to the new blog at http://blog.christianasp.net/.  However, if you're a subscriber, I would appreciate if you would go ahead and update your subscription to the new link.  I believe all my old blog links will continue to work here.

Monday, January 16, 2006 7:38:22 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
I'm shocked! After we talked about this the other day, I've started thinking about porting my blog over to it as well since .Text is no longer being updated and Community Server seems overkill for a single blog instance.
Monday, January 16, 2006 11:04:55 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Looks good! Thanks for the comments on it. Not sure what I'm going to do. My plans have been to port over to CS 2.0 when its out of beta but this looks like a good option as well.

Just the litte that I've worked with the dotText code makes me want to work with the CS code. Although they've got a full team on it and not just Scott Water.
Tuesday, January 17, 2006 12:51:10 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Yay!
Tuesday, January 17, 2006 12:52:47 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
BTW, you can likely automatically update all your subscribers by issuing a 301 redirect from your original RSS endpoint:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PermanentRedirectsWithHTTP301.aspx
Tuesday, January 17, 2006 1:51:35 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Awesome! I thought I remembered reading somewhere that a permanent automatic redirect could be done. It was on your blog, of course.

Thanks, Scott
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