Boo!
I wanted to give prevalence layers--specifically
Bamboo.NET--a better chance to win me over from the I-Loves-Me-Nothing-But-SQL camp. I figured I really needed to do more than something totally trivial to do give it a fair test drive. So I did what everyone else does when they need to do something just the other side of trivial. I wrote my own blog. I had other motives, but basically the short version is I wanted a .NET blog that did xml-rpc well and was easy to integrate into other sites. I like hosting these things myself, I like them under common umbrellas.
Personally, I love
w.bloggar as a client. Unfortunately w.bloggar only talks to blogs via xml-rpc, hopefully that will change some day. I don't really care for web interfaces, MT's is probably the best and it's nowhere w.bloggar--until something trumps it as a client, I'll suck it up and deal with whatever protocol is driving.
I've worked on both client and server side implementations of metaWeblog before, it's swell. Errr. No. No it's not. But whatever, it's what evolved. But I will endeavor to nicer interfaces... just as soon as superior client tools come out using them. Actually, if the metaWeblog/blogger apis were better, if xml-rpc over .NET wasn't such a structfest (no offense to Mr. Cook intended), it would have taken a matter of minutes to build the external xml-rpc endpoints. Alas... :).
Anyway, since there's more than one bell and/or whistle still missing, I'll be forced to come to terms with using Bamboo's migration tools pretty shortly. I'm posting local now, since the web client into BooBlog (which is the silliest name I could muster) isn't really seaworthy yet. That's enough for now, this post has a mortality rate that probably approaches c/2 given the migration I still need to do.
I'm emitting a flavor of RSS 2.0 I'm aping from
Sam Ruby. It's not full feature but it validates clean. Frankly, I don't know which Dave Winer spec is more annoying, RSS 2.0 or metaWeblog. I haven't finished with the xml-rpc api yet either, so I'm guessing this will precipitate a future rant-a-thon about how blog standards are so bush league.