I already blogged about the original platform Orchard I used to host this blog. I needed a new blogging platform, and after all the complexity I wanted something simpler and easier to upgrade. Lately Github pages and Jekyll have drawn a lot of attention. Tipping point for me was reading what it took for Phil Haack to move his blog over. I tend to test new technology all the time, and decided to take a shot on Jekyll as a blogging platform. ...
When I originally started this blog I had two options: use some readymade blogging platform, or host one of the blogging platforms myself. I wanted a complete control of everything, and decided to build the blog to my own hosting. As .NET was (and partly still is) my thing, I wanted the platform to be .NET based. Sadly, none of the available platforms pleased me: dasBlog was aging and was not updated, DNN was too complex and written in Visual Basic. Luckily there was one new emerging platform called Orchard that was exactly what I wanted. ...
I intended to use Feedburner from the beginning, but I did not find an easy way to modify Orchard (the CMS behind this blog) to link to an external feed. Luckily Bertrand Le Roy came to rescue and created Vandelay Feedburner plugin, which works great. From now on this blog’s feed is hosted at feeds.feedburner.com/Tero-Teelahti; old address still works but if you follow this blog please change to the new location since that will be more reliable in the long run.