Ok, I'm a big fan of eating one's own dog food, but sometimes you've got to show commitment to base components, not just the final product.

Anyone who knows me, knows I'm a .NET junkie. But strangely I'm also not complete a Microsoft bigot. I'm, a fan of Mono and if you look hard enough I've even contributed a little. So what happens when I think it's time for a blog software update?

There's not a lot of options in the .NET space for blog software, and even less that don't need a SQL Server. One possible is BlogEngine.NET.

So, this is it. After a pile of installation & upgrades of various packages on my Debian box we have an initial "running" instance. I'm sure there'll be more issues, and I'll tackle them as they come. Who knows, in the future, you may even see contributions of mine in BlogEngine.NET.

P.S. It appears someone else is also trying BlogEngine.NET on Mono.