If you're reading this, it means I haven't totally boned the conversion over to BlogEngine from CommunityServer.  It's been a long time coming, but I finally had the time to convert everything to the new system and put it live today.

I would appreciate any and all feedback, especially for broken links or things that just aren't working the way they should be.  I'll be tweaking things a bit more, but it's now live!

The one thing you'll find missing is the Forums section from the old site.  It didn't get much use and I figured it was time to let it go.  I don't plan to have a replacement at the moment.

Enjoy the new site!

After finally finding a Community Server 2008.5 SP1 compatible theme I liked, I was able to upgrade my site to the latest Community Server version.  This theme is provided by Andrew Belon, who has several fantastic CS themes available on his site.  I’ve tweaked his basic Bliss theme (which he uses as his main theme) to my liking.

I’m a big fan of the new colors and layout, and I hope those reading this are as well.  I’ll continue to tweak over the coming days to make things a bit cleaner.

If you have any comments on the new site or you see anything out of place, please contact me and let me know…thanks!

It’s time to announce the winner of my contest to win a copy of our Coding4Fun book!  15 people entered the contest via my forum.  I assigned each of them a 0-based index in the order in which they submitted their entry.  The final list was:

• leif902 = 0
• jcauble = 1
• krakerjak = 2
• RoryBecker = 3
• amrkamel = 4
• anonymous = 5
• Arrowofdarkness = 6
• qiuliocc = 7
• hanan = 8
• Amira = 9
• helpware = 10
• michaelb = 11
• FunnyX = 12
• John Bisschop = 13
• juanformoso = 14
• bringo = 15

Now, I did say you had to sign up using a valid user account, but the anonymous person linked to their blog which had contact info, so I decided to allow their entry in the mix….

To pick the winner, I wrote up a single line snippet in the ever-popular Snippet Compiler, pressed F5, and the result was…

That’s number 11, which indexes to michaelb and his winning post!  Thanks to everyone that entered for their support and kind words!

I've done the unthinkable and have decided to try out Twitter.  You can "follow" me at http://www.twitter.com/BrianPeek .  Let the grand experiment begin...

After a moderate amount of pain, I have finally updated the site to Community Server 2007.1.  I think everything is working.  I'm likely wrong.  Therefore if anyone sees anything that is not working, broken layouts, broken links, etc. PLEASE contact me and let me know so that I may correct it.

One noteworthy item:  The new official URL for the blog is www.brianpeek.com/blog/ .  The main site will 301 redirect you here.  The old /blogs address should also 301 you here as well.  If you're seeing any weirdness there, again, please contact me.

Thanks!