So, I finally completed the upgrade to BlogEngine 1.4.5, and I took this opportunity to also finalize the migration from a Windows Server 2003/IIS 6 hosting platform to the Windows Server 2008/IIS 7 platform. Despite the inevitable teething troubles, everything seems to be stable now. This was largely due to the fact that the IIS 7 deployment requires a different (read "more secure") approach.

I'll be blogging soon about how I went about setting this up and I look forward to comments and suggestions on whether anyone had a better experience or knows how to approach this more efficiently.

During one of my frequent visits to the programming reddit, I stumbled across this blog by a software entrepreneur. This guy goes by the handle 'nukemanbill' and blogs about his experiences in setting up his own software company. He hasn't yet revealed what exactly his company does or specifics of the software or industry vertical it targets (for business intelligence reasons). He's just started this blog and it has only 4 posts right now (4 really long, interesting, insighful and even humorous posts) about the trials and tribulations of setting up business from scratch.

The posts seem kind of reminiscent of the 'Going Independent' series (part 1, part 2, part 3) which Angrycoder.com did a *really* long time ago, the difference being that this one's focused on developing packaged software.

So I decided to bite the bullet and install WLW (site, install link) to be able to create content-rich posts for my blog. Setup was a snap. It must have taken me a total of 10 minutes (or less) to go from downloading and installing WLW, getting it to recognize my blog, configuring FTP options and picture upload location to creating my first post. Good stuff! I don't think I'm about to go back to the BlogEngine.NET based rich text editor anytime soon.

The current version, circa June 2008, is Windows Live Writer 2008 (version 12.0.1366.1026).

Links of interest

• There is a slew of plugins that you can install for WLW