Changing this blog to my own software

This blog entry make #138 since I started blogging just over a year ago. Since that time, I've been writing a new blog program of my own that will allow me to manage the posts on my own terms. I've enjoyed Blogger and it has helped me see the benefits of blogging, but there are some things I would like to do differently and after reviewing the available interfaces, I've decided that my own will be the best.

Based on Microsoft Active Server Pages and SQL server, the articles will be stored on my system instead of someone else's. Also, instead of having to work around some eccentricities of hosted solutions, I'll be able to write valid source code for performance and flexibility.

My main concern was control as well as order. I want to be able to make bulk edits, internal search and replace as well as flexible category and sub category ordering of the articles. I want to be able to monitor the blog posts as well as the traffic and where people are coming from.

There will be many features and I will likely have a blog specific to the deployment and continued development. But in short, it's gonna be great!!

One of the benefits of migrating to my own blog application will be that each of the posts here and on my other blogs will be imported, reviewed and categorized. I will further cull out older topics and reorganize the 'keepers.' It's not going to be easy and will be written to easily upgrade to ASP.NET, but in the end, I think it will be worth the effort.

The ground work is done, I expect that it will be ready to go by October 1st.