A .Net blog tool, ’cause when you’ve got a hammer…

Seriously considering writing my own blogging tool as none of the ones that exist meet my stringent requirements:

  1. Open Source
  2. Produces only valid XHTML
  3. .Net – well, not mandatory, but definitely a plus, as far as hammer fulfillment goes.
  4. Uses CSS for style
  5. Small and fast
  6. Can be used from multiple locations to edit the same site
  7. Only requires an FTP-only site, no server-side scripting required, no PHP, SSI, CGI, etc.

[Bitworking.org]

A popular idea lately.  ;-)  What I want is dynamic page generation, so if I change something in one of my headers, etc., I don’t need to re-generate and re-publish every single page on my site.  Since the FTP upload of Radio is a little flaky for me, this is a killer.  To add to that, Radio actually re-publishes every page in your site when you add a new article on a new day, so it can re-generate the calendar on each page.  Adds to my FTP problem.

I’m ok with server-side scripting (obviously required for the above); I have no problem with having a .NET-enabled server.  And I know this will add some CPU usage to the site; but honestly, the busiest radio weblog (safersex.org) gets a few thousand hits a day.  Mine gets somewhat less than that.  ;-)  I think I can spare the CPU cycles.

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