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It was time to do a face lift on the blog that pretty much have looked the same for 10 years:

oldblog

 

But I wasn’t really fond of the idea of just fixing up the looks – the code for dasBlog hadn’t been touched for several years. Perhaps it was time to change blog engine as well. After having looked around a bit, for example this blog post by Hanselman, my eyes fell on MiniBlog by Mads Kristensen. A really small ASP.NET MVC based, open source, blog engine.

It was quite simple, just:

  • Clone the code from GitHub
  • Convert all the old dasBlog posts to MiniBlog format with the MiniBlogFormatter-tool.
  • Create a custom theme based on one of the existing ones.
  • Publish from Visual Studio.
  • …and some DNS fixes, of course.

Bam! Done in less than an hour – I’m impressed how easy it was..

Still running in the cloud – on Azure.

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I’ve been thinking about buying a small device such as Arduino or Netduino for a couple of years now, but there have always been something more important on the top of the list of thing that I must or want to do. But today I just bought a Raspberry Pi 2 on my way home.

raspberry_pi_2

After just get it up and working – SSH:ed against it and did a couple of ls’' and pwd’s I wondered: “Now, how could I use this…?”. And frankly, I have no idea – but it’s nice to play with for a while.

Anyway, during the next play sessions with the Pi I will probably be running it as a: