After a few days of something approaching international pair programming, the MetaCase blog server awakes! It's been one of the more interesting non-work projects of recent months, and a real privilege to work with James Robertson on the server.

Aside from being a Domain-Specific Modeling cheerleader, I'm a member of the "I'll stop using Smalltalk when they pry it from my cold dead fingers" club. Even so, I did try to find a free ASPX blog engine to run on our server. .Text seemed hard to install and was in the process of becoming Community Server, so I left it alone. DasBlog looked great, easy install and good support, but unfortunately only coped with one blog per server.

After exhausting my list of ASPX servers the next candidate was Silt, the Cincom Smalltalk blog server. Since I've been reading James Robertson's and others' blogs on that server, I knew the server worked, and apparently James was just tidying it up so others could use it. In a fit of community spirit, I decided to join in and spoil everything... I mean help. Whilst the results still aren't as finely polished as they could be, it seems ready enough - at least for our needs. And if it breaks, I can fix it. Whether that's a good or bad idea remains to be seen...