Andrew Aitken

Small Update

Posted in Blog.

Finally got round to fixing an issue where a 404 was being recorded as error.  Should save some disk space :)  I've also added a new friend link for Greg and Jen who are off traveling round the world.

Hopefully this will inspire me to get my ass in gear and do a bit more work on my blog and maybe even write some blog posts! One thing I really want to do is update the design and javascript so when I post code it fits on the page and is syntax highlighted automatically.

Tags: Blog , C# , elmah

First Post

Posted in Blog.

There is still a lot to do but I have finally gotten a working version of my blog online. I chose to write my own blog for a chance to play with asp.net MVC 3 and the Razor view engine. So far I really like the Razor view engine and think my HTML looks much cleaner when working with it.  Here is a list of what I hope to update over time:

• Add a search feature
• Have a correctly formatted date when viewing old posts
• Implement MetaWeblog API
• Comments support
• Contact page
• Detect tweets not loading and add redundency
• Add a custom error page
• Make sure all the HTML and CSS is valid
• Minify and combine the js files
• A few styling tweaks

Maybe add a style for lists too.

I did manage to implement an RSS feed and tags which I had missed or not wanted in my original specification.

I would like to thank Steven Gibson (@glasgowtozocalo) for doing the design for me. It's got the clean, easy to read look I wanted and I'm really happy with it.

Tags: Blog , Development