No, not this type of switch. I’m still running Microsoft Windows.

As you could tell from the new home page and the new RSS feed, something has happened under the covers on WiredPrairie.

I had written my own content management system in .NET more than a year ago (and have continued to add features once and a while as needed). It’s served me quite well and continues to function adequately. It was deficient in a couple of areas though:

• No ability to remotely post an article through a Rich Client. I had experimented with InfoPath for a couple of hours, but I couldn’t get it to do what I needed specifically (rich text).
• No ability to comment.
• I was the only person supporting it and writing it.

Since I’m a admitted .NET type of guy, I did of course look at the various .NET blog engines that exist. Nothing was quite what I was looking for in terms of features and general usability of the application and setup. So, I looked elsewhere.

My hunt led me to several options, but in the end, I’ve decided on MoveableType for the time being. It’s robust in features and a lot of people use it, plus it works with my Internet provider, WebHost4Life (MoveableType requires Perl support and MySQL in particular). It was not a pain free experience by any means though. I’ll post more about it later.

In any case, I’m sort of on the fence about this one in particular as I’m not sure I want to enable comments. I’m going to for a while, moderated. It’s my site, so I can moderate if I want to. I’ve also disabled trackbacks entirely as I’ve read too many horror stories about them being enabled right now.

By using this new engine (and a client side publishing tool, I hope to post a lot more actively). Thanks for switching with me.