--- title: "Setting up a technical blog online - some options" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/9/23/setting-up-a-technical-blog-online-some-options.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/9/23/setting-up-a-technical-blog-online-some-options.html" published: "2006-09-23T23:30:45" updated: "2006-09-23T23:30:45" tags: ["General Software Devel..."] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "In the last few weeks I've been asked by several would-be bloggers here in Israel how they can start their own blog. Should they use custom blog software? what sites can they register to, how one goes about registering…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Setting up a technical blog online - some options By Roy Osherove September 23, 2006 In [General Software Devel...](https://osherove.com/blog/category/general-software-devel) **Historical article** · Originally published September 23, 2006; technical details may be outdated. In the last few weeks I've been asked by several would-be bloggers here in Israel how they can start their own blog. Should they use custom blog software? what sites can they register to, how one goes about registering etc.. There are several blogging sites out there for technical bloggers, especially if you're from the Microsoft world that I know of. Unfortunately, weblogs.asp.net isn't one of them (at least for now). [http://Codebetter.com](http://codebetter.com/) is invite-only but there are others who are open for business: - If you're in Israel, You can start a blog at [http://blogs.microsoft.co.il](http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/)  - where both Hebrew and English are supported (Hebrew skins have full right-to-left support) send me an email through the contact link on my blog and I'll hook you up with Yosi Taguri, who runs the show there - You can go register at the all new .NET blogging community site: [http://Devlicio.us](http://devlicio.us/)  - You can also check out [GeeksWithBlogs](http://www.geekswithblogs.com/) - [.NETJunkies](http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/) - and oldie but a goodie. There was some talk a while ago how the site is falling apart - I'm not sure what's the case now - seems to be working fine.. - **Do you know of other good technical blogging sites one can register to?** If you're going the "custom blog" route - you can check out these packages that are widely used, which you'll need to install and configure manually on your own server somewhere: - [Community Server](http://communityserver.org/) is free for non commercial use (is what [http://weblogs.asp.net](http://weblogs.asp.net/) runs on) - [DasBlog](http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce) is a wonderful free open source blogging platform that [just came out with a new version the other day](http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DasBlog19Released.aspx) .It's purely file-based and does not require a database as far as I know. - [SubText](http://subtextproject.com/) is a branch-out of .TEXT (which is now called Community Server) - back when it was much smaller and dealt with only blogging. main features: dead simple to setup and use - no hassles blogging engine.   Also free and I think is open source to. - [WordPress](http://wordpress.org/) is a free blogging platform that runs on PHP and MySQL (all the rest mentioned here are ASP.NET/SQL Server except DasBlog which is DB-less) - You can also **purchase** a blogging engine - but I'm not too familiar with many options here which are very good. - **Can you recommend other blogging engines one can install?** - **Update**: There's also [ThinkJot](http://www.process64.com/thinkjot/) : based on DasBlog and ASP.NET 2.0, free and open source. ## More in General Software Devel... 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Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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