I'm a freelance IT consultant working in UK. My area of specialization is .NET and BizTalk Server 2004/2006. I was lucky enough to get involved in the NHS project in UK for nearly 3 years as a Lead BizTalk Consultant right from the proof of concept stage to phase 1 implementation. Even though there are lot of speculations about the projects politically, its one of the world class technically challenged projects, with 1000's of deployment servers. At one stage we even ran out of physical place to put the servers in the data centre. I've highlighted some of the stuff like Connected Systems winner, Certifications, Blog, Feedback etc in the website, So, I'm not going to blow my own trumpet anymore about myself.

As any other billions of people around the world with a blog, I do have my own blog. I started to realize most of my day job problems are fixed with the help of some content from someone's blog. So, I decided to write a bit about the technical problems and solutions I encounter each day in my blog. Blogs became so informative and powerful means of communication. In my blog I'm trying to focus as much as I can to put my own content, but occasionally I forward other content, because it's too good to be ignored after reading it.

The way my blog is configured is interesting, Before setting up my blog, as many others I tried different things like Community Server, Word Press, DasBlog etc for my blog, they are all cool stuff but as an individual (I'm a freelancer) blogger, I wanted to spend as little time as possible on the blog infrastructure setup and maintenance.

Blogging should be simple, but it gets complicated and time-consuming if you are serious about it. Here are my criterias for my blog:

I created an account with blogger.com, changed the settings to publish it via FTP to my own server digitaldeposit.net. I configured Windows Live Writter to work with my Blogger.com account. As simple as that. Now I can publish rich content using Windows Live Writter with a click of a button and spend no time in the infrastructure. If you look back at my criteria list, this setup meets all the bullets with no overhead. Hope this will help someone to make their decision on setting up their blog. If yes, drop me a line Contact form.