Getting old
I’m getting old. Really. And I’ve only realized this not too long ago. ^_^x I’m turning 27 this year and I haven’t mastered, I mean really hardcore, any programming language or field. I’m always into so many things trying to be a jack of all trades. I don’t think that’s possible. Possible only if you have nothing else to do in your life but programming. Luckily I’ve come to realize that life is never about work. We work only to live.
So, I’ve decided to focus more on these technologies > .Net, Ruby on Rails, and AJAX. And maybe a little Java here and then. To start with that focus, I’ve just recently transferred to a .Net hosting and I’m currently looking in to transfer this Wordpress blog to a .Net alternative. Probably a CMS or another blog engine. From all my extensive research, I’ve reached to these final three: DotNetNuke, Umbraco, and BlogEngine.NET.
DotNetNuke seems to have a large following, but it seems to be bloated and I had a hard time trying to find an installation manual. Looks like the manual is greatly hidden in their forums. Well, I’m not going that road. Forums are just too messy for my taste. Even though I got it installed in the end, that took a lot of google searches. Well, the default theme isn’t exactly presentable in this Web 2.0 age. I think they really need to update that one.
BlogEngine.NET seems to be a very powerful blogging engine. My friend John got it installed here, and I didn’t hear any complaints about the installation so I think this is really a good candidate. It even has a “tag” feature already. I’m pretty sure my default install of Wordpress didn’t have that.
My last and looks like will gonna be my choice in this dilemma is Umbraco. I’ve just gone up to reading everything in their site right now and I’m liking it already. Next step is to try and get this installed in my machine. Let’s see how easy it’s gonna be and if it’s compatible with my hosting. I’m looking forward to a CMS than a blog-focused software cause I’m gonna put up a site in a subdomain for an open source software that I’ve been planning on working for months now.