New outlook–rolling out my own blog engine
For the last couple of years I was using wordpress as my blogging platform, it is an awesome framework but finally I decided to move away from it and created my own blog engine(Rhyble), on which this blog is running now.
Rhyble is built using Asp.Net MVC3, NHiberanate and it is running Appharbor
You might ask why I want reinvent the wheel again because we have many blog engines available today.
Jeff Atwood answered that question here - Why does every man and his dog want to code a blogging engine?
These were my objectives when I started creating Rhyble
- Focus on the most important functionalities, doesn’t want to create another wordpress with truck full of unwanted things
- Improve the performance. Now I have YSlow rating of 94 compared to 65
- I didn’t wanted to go through the existing blog engines code base, which is more time consuming than creating a new one
More over it is a nice feeling if you have something you own. Now I have platform of my own and next things should be blogging frequently.
That’s it for the day.
Comments
Daniel Lang
Hi Rajeesh,
Consider to share the code? I'd like to see how you've done some aspects :)
Rajeesh
@daniel - right now it is in a half cooked state. I will be release it as open source soon, not yet planned a date though :)
friv
I also use wordpress as free platform for my blog..is blogEngine better than wordpress?
Rajeesh
I wouldn't say it is better than Wordpress, but this one works for me at least. This is a simple blog engine, got only few sets of features which are required for blogging.
If Wordpress is working for you very well, better you can continue with that :)