And unfortunately including:

• No styling

• Javascript errors

At least on my IE7 at work. ;-)

"which is a blog application suited specifically for my own needs"

Unfortunately, I'm not sure anyone else shares your blogging needs!

I was reading one of your old articles here

msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa973811.aspx
and I noticed that some url are broken, like this one: ayende.com/.../TheNatureOfGenericTypeNames.aspx

Yes, I noticed it. I just thought you could write a simple url rewrite rule providing a permanent redirect to get advantage of those orphans

Ayende,

I'm impressed with how quickly you turn stuff out. A great example of agile/lean imo.

The Hibernating Rhinos blog is not displaying correctly in any version of IE for me. CSS doesn't seem to load.

Wordpress has all this built in and even more...!

I can send you a screenshot, but from what I can see:

The browser requests a stylesheet from: /Skins/Semagogy/css.axd?name=Semagogy

Gets redirected to: /skins/semagogy/css.axd

Which returns a 404 error.

Ah! Bing linked me to http://blogs.hibernatingrhinos.com/

Now, I've gone to http://blog.hibernatingrhinos.com/ - IE9 displays it ok, but IE7 and 8 do not.

When accessing http://blog.hibernatingrhinos.com/ I'm viewing the classic ASP.NET error page (Server Error in '/' Application.).

It was just fixed - Ayende, you sure read your blog FAST!

Very cool. I've been on an off again with writing my own blog app, no because nothing supports what I want to do, but because I want to write an app. This has inspired me to get back on it again. Thanks.

I cannot run the blog because in AbstractController.cs, it tries to read blog config from the database and it returns null

var blogConfig = Session.Load <blogconfig("Blog/Config");

Then when it tries to map with the following line I get an ArgumentException

protected override void OnActionExecuted(ActionExecutedContext filterContext)

    {

        var blogConfig = Session.Load

<blogconfig("Blog/Config");

                    ViewBag.BlogConfig = blogConfig.MapTo

<blogconfigviewmodel();

    }

Can you explain why WordPress doesnt fit your needs?

I just started a blog and WordPress was the best option due to its incredible community, plugin and theme support.

You've maybe thought of it earlier but i would strongly recommend that you redirect all of your old urls (running this blog) to your new urls.

I can imagine that you get quite a lot traffic from Google which you don't want to lose.

April Fools! Oh wait...It's May. I guess you really did write your own blogging engine.

Getting the yellow screen of death on http://blog.hibernatingrhinos.com/

Tear :-'(

Sad trombone:

        if (Session == null)

            throw new NullReferenceException();

github.com/.../AddCommentCommand.cs#L31

Victor: +1

It's funny you actually get flac when you write your own blog engine. It's a well understood problem domain which is of limited scope but not too trivial, can help you in understanding yet unknown technologies and in this case dogfooding your own products. Did the same thing myself 2 years ago, and I'm fairly sure there may be a version 2.

Sadly, Winhost stated it wouldn't host RavenDB, otherwise I'd probably go for a fubumvc or openrasta + ravenDB combination.

Make sure to keep the old URLs exactly the same for SEO reasons (see my comment on a previous post). Not even a difference in case allowed. You must 301 redirect case differences to the canonical URL so that all wrong external links still get you link juice.

Are you going to port your posts from this one to the new one ?

Alvaro, I saw in github a migration program, so yes I'd say so.

Would be crazy not to.

Oren, God bless you haven't written Yet Another CMS.

Wheels are being reinvented so many times :)

Didn't spend any time behind the PC after my initial post, but I see others had the same problem. But it has been fixed now. The page is now styled properly and no more javascript errors.

The links in your RSS feed are not correct. They take me to an invalid page in FeedBurner.

How does raven licensing work for this product- - as in let's say I wanted to run my personal blog on this platform. Would I need a ravendb license?

I've been going back through a bunch of the previous posts and taking a look at them in the new blog. It's actually really nice. The new markdown comments actually work on a lot of old comments. The bullet points and a lot of code just work.

There are some catches, though. See some of the comments towards the end of Answer: Stopping the Leaks.

I doubt there is much that can be done about this, though.

I'm getting the same articles appearing in Google Reader every day, in a flood of new posts. I'm presuming this happens every time you deploy a new version, which could get annoying considering your rate of development...

Is there a trick to get this to run in a partial trust environment?

http://ayende.com/blog/4837/and-now-raccoon-blog

The webpage at http://ayende.com/blog/4837/and-nowhellip-raccoon-blog has resulted in too many redirects

Ayende, just to let you know a few devs from Australia have been working on a blog engine solving the same things that Racoon does, except for the RavenDb backend of course, we already are working on being able to select a database provider.

Please have a look at http://www.funnelweblog.com/. Our stacks are pretty much the same, MVC3, Razor, nHibernate, Autofac, MEF (we have an awesome extensibility model) and markdown for both posts and comments. Seems silly to have two blog engines which are so close to each other in terms of goals :)

The initial HTML page response is very fast, but opening e.g. category "blog" (http://ayende.com/blog/tags/blog) makes 277 requests and takes a total of 18 seconds on a fast network. Opening this page my chrome 12 totally halts for >10 seconds. IE9 handles the situation better, but the amount of requests and page load time stays the same. Most of the requests are to Facebook and Twitter. I tried on two different networks just to be sure that this is not an issue on my network.

Maybe some room for improvement here?

Hello, i have downloaded the RaccoonBlog and tried to debug it using visual studio. but RavenDb profiler gives me 404 errors at /docs/Raven/Replication/Destinations and /docs/Blog/Config. what can i do to sort this one out. plus what's the default username/password to enter the admin section of Raccoon Blog regards Adeel

Ok, i will ask there. what about admin user/password for Raccoon Blog