April 13, 2005
Everything Else
New Email Address?
I've been trying to think of a new email address for myself to go with www.adamboddington.com. Tradition usually dictates some part of my name, but here that would mean something like adam@adamboddington.com. No thanks...
I briefly reasoned that my domain name represents me, and there is only one of me (so far, insert evil laugh here), so why not implement the singleton design pattern? Something like instance@adamboddington.com. Yeah, cool! Then reality kicked in -- who wants to be called the instance guy? No, it's not cool.
I'll be using my other new email address for now, adam@sevencamels.com.
Posted by Adam Boddington at 08:29 PM | Comments (1)
Blogging | Movable Type
First Entry
Well I've finally started my blog. I've wanted to do this for a while but haven't gotten around to it until now.
Being a .NET guy, I initially went for Community Server 1.0 as my blogging tool. Unfortunately I had a lot of trouble with it out of the box, mainly the posting textbox and the single blog configuration (while possible, it was difficult to setup elegantly). There wasn't a whole lot of documentation either. I realised Community Server might be a little too immature for me to use just yet without spending a lot of time on it.
So the search was on for an alternative...
I soon found Movable Type 3.15. While not .NET or open source, it's still free for one author with a few blogs. Better yet it runs on my windows hosting account alongside my .NET applications (you just need CGI enabled and have the right version of Perl).
Installation was straight forward, even for a .NET guy like me. The usability and default look and feel is also impressive and it's easy to customise through a nice set of templates and custom tags. Too many pros to walk away from really so I think Movable Type is a keeper.
Posted by Adam Boddington at 07:26 PM | Comments (0)
Keywords: Community Server vs Movable Type