Well this is by no means my first foray into creating and maintaining my own website, just the latest. This website was created by me using good old-fashioned know how. I created this site because I wanted a public area to share stuff that I'm working on, or things that I have discovered.

This website was created using ASP.NET MVC 2 with a Microsoft SQL 2008 backend. I used to use SubSonic for all of my data access needs however I have switched to "rolling my own" data access solution. For editing HTML for the pages and blog entries I am using NicEdit. I'm using NicEdit because I happen to like it, and it is super easy to integrate. I have also added MetaWeblog API support so I can use applications like Windows Live Writer for adding and editing posts. For the little bit of AJAX behavior (see the comment system) that exists I used jQuery. I suppose I could have used ASP.Net AJAX but that just didn't seem as fun! 

Simply put, because I like to make things. Not necessarily because I think that I can do a better job, but because I learn something with each project. Also, while reading over my daily array of programming blogs I came across this entry by Rob Conery in which he claim's "Luke had to build his own lightsaber - geeks should have to build their own blogs. And that should be their resume." The comments on that entry met with a little static but I find his reasoning sound. So here we are. A constant work in progress for a single client.

If you would like to see the source code as it is right now, you can find my Google Code project here.