SharpBlog

Approximately 4 weeks ago I decide to dump my old website in favor of a real blogging engine. I decide to go with BlogEngine.NET. I really like the engine and thoroughly enjoyed it for about 2 weeks. There where a few issues that just couldn't be handle without diving into the code. I thought about asking the developers to "fix" the issues (technically add the features) but I would not dare ask. 

I just could not bring myself to ask when I know that I'm very capable of adding the features myself. One of the feature that I wanted was a old URL to redirect to the new one. Ex. "/articles/3" to redirect to "/page/Bobby-Cannons-Resume.aspx". I research on how I could simple create an extension but it just couldn't be done. I thought well if I add this one feature I will own the blog.

I've decide to branch BlogEngine to SharpBlog. I thought simply contributing to the project but I've changed so much. I've upgrade the assembly to .NET 4. I also changed the website project into a web application. This took a good bit of work and the changes are just too much to feedback into the BlogEngine project. However if they ever decide to move forward then I would love to simple use BlogEngine. I fear by that time I will simple have made to many modification and upgrades to move away from SharpBlog.

I am a refactoring freak. I will be walking through the whole project line by line. If I find problems I will be reporting these problems to BlogEngine to be sure to give back to the project.