Adam.Kahtava.com / AdamDotCom

Things have been quiet for the past couple weeks, but an undercurrent of change has been happening within. My hosting account expired this month - which also marks 3 years of yammering (err… blogging) - I switched accounts, changed blog engines, migrated the content, and tried to resolve all existing links to the new engine.

I’ve joined the millions of a happy WordPress users. This site was running dasBlog - now dasBlog was pretty swell 4 years ago, but so was PHP-nuke, DotNetNuke, table-based-design, ASP.NET Themes & Skins, and ASP.NET AJAX. :) Web technology changes at an accelerated pace, and some software / technologies / frameworks need to run their inevitable natural evolutionary course (extinction). dasBlog did its job, but it’s time to move on - not to mention I’ll sleep easier knowing that Rhett won’t be taunting me about how my blog reminds him of SharePoint. Adios dasBlog! :)

The new digs:

• WordPress running on IIS 7 hosted by GoDaddy’s shared hosting plan ($203 for 4 years!!)
• Redirections by ManagedFusion Url Rewriter
• WordPress plug-ins installed:
  • FeedBurner FeedSmith - uses feedburner feeds in place of the WP vanilla feeds
  • Google Analytics for WP
  • Google XML Sitemaps
  • WP More Feeds - generates feeds for categories like musings (this feature was native to dasBlog, but not to WP)

Be sure to update this blog’s RSS feed to: http://adam.kahtava.com/journal/feed/. Old feeds will continue to work, but you may experience some oddities.