Well, here at work I am attempting to bring the district into the 21st century. Specifically, I would like to create a basic Content Management System so that all of our news and events postings can be easily archived. Right now, it looks like .Text and DasBlog are my best options. Why? We have recently converted from Apache servers to an IIS cluster. I have been strongly encouraged to consider ASP.NET apps, thus .Text (recently renamed) and DasBlog.

I’ve just installed DasBlog on my workstation for testing. The next major factor is to determine whether I want XML or SQL storage of content. DasBlog is XML, which means I can test it without reliance on the district’s SQL server. However, the use of a clustered server environment apparently means that I would have problems whenever I updated the blog. I would be modifying the XML on one piece of the cluster and not the others. I really don’t have time for all this, but I have even less time to crosstrain the rest of our department in the ins and outs of laborious static-page upkeep

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