Consolidating Old Blog Posts

I’ve been thinking for a while I have too many blogs I’ve created over time, so I decided to try and consolidate them in just a couple of places.

This blog seemed the most sensible place to hold my “technical” blog posts, and the real challenge was to pull in some pretty old posts going back to 2005(!) from my old MSDN Blog.

The Jekyll RSS importer did a reasonable job of getting the “newest” 15 posts, but they weren’t the fill articles, so a major copy and paste job entailed to get everything working.

A couple of things I noticed when going through these old posts are:

• Old HTML editors based on IE Trident are terrible - some of the saved HTML was truly horrendous
• I’ve hated the Visual Studio unit test runner for ages, and it’s still not any better

One of the earliest posts about XML namespaces is still getting comments on MSDN every so often, and is surprisingly the most useful thing I’ve ever written.

Anyway, it makes me happy that all these posts are now in one place and in HTML and Markdown files, so I can easily port them whenever I want in the future.