making another move

this weekend briangorbett.com may or nay not be available. i am preparing to move my blog engine over to wordpress from graffiti. since i have had a few questions on why i would be doing this, i figured i would give you my top 3 here (before my blog possibly gets smoked from the move).

1. better mobile update experience – while i have clients for my windows phone like diarist, wordpress offers dedicated clients for mobile phones to update your blog, moderate comments, administer your site, etc.
2. tons more plugins – if you are like me and are a lazy coder, then wordpress is for you. because wordpress has been around forever, there is a rich and vibrant community of developers building plugins for just about anything you could possibly need
3. great selection of themes – again, because wordpress has a vibrant community there is a great selection of themes to choose from
4. get my php groove on – i know i said top 3, but this one really is a side bonus. i wanted to get back into some php coding. yes i know i work for microsoft and i am all about the .net love, but there is something to be said for the simplicity in php. my blog is going to run php on top of windows server 2008 and fastcgi so it should be smoking fast.

now i am not abandoning graffiti entirely. one of my other projects is still running graffiti (which i will reveal soon) and i just finished up a simple theme for it.

the only challenge i have right now is that graffiti does not have an export feature. it has the ability to import, but not export. so i am modifying some code that curt put together to export from my sql server database to blogml. we will see how that goes.

next week when you return to briangorbett.com it will either have a new look and feel and all the same delicious content, or just a new look and feel with no content at all. i am hoping for the former of the two.