[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-this-blog-is-now-home-grown":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"date":32,"description":12,"extension":33,"meta":34,"navigation":35,"path":36,"published":35,"seo":37,"slug":38,"stem":39,"summary":5,"tags":40,"__hash__":44},"blog/blog/2013-06-22-this-blog-is-now-home-grown.md","This Blog Is Now Home Grown",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":28},"minimark",[9,13,16,19,22,25],[10,11,12],"p",{},"For what it's worth, \"Home Grown\" might not be the best phrase but all in all I have switched off of Mango Blog and settled for a bundled application I whipped up over the last 2 weeks. When I first truly started this blog back in April, I had intentions to go with a custom concept; however, between lack of time and no direction with how I was going to put it out, I lost drive and let it go. After redesigning a long-time client's site to run on top of Sean Corfield's Framework One, I suddenly saw a new direction and went with FW/1 as my medium which snowballed into what I have now.",[10,14,15],{},"I enjoyed using Mango Blog and it was a good start to getting a feel for things. There are definitely a lot of cool features; not to mention a fair share of plugins to fill in the gaps. It was easy to get started with everything from install to publish and applying your own layout as a skin is not difficult at all. From a blogging perspective it seems ideal to me and the page creation is excellent for general content; though I didn't really make too many pages. I started to get hung up though with trying to incorporate other dynamic content. Part of this issue I'm sure is merely my lack of knowledge to the platform.",[10,17,18],{},"I like to build things where I have full flexibility in control when a project is my own and not for a client. Quite often that means I reinvent the wheel in many areas. It's that flexibility sometimes that's needed to push forward even if it takes me a little extra time. There are plenty of areas where it's not wise and you're better off going with the tried and true; but in this case it makes no difference obviously when it's simply a blog with dynamic pages running along side. It's an image and I get to build that image from the ground up.",[10,20,21],{},"With Framework One as a base I have been able to shape everything to where it flows nicely between logic and feature. So far I've recreated some of the features that I was using previously. Right now I have my articles, their comments, the ability to post comments and subscribe/unsubscribe to them, a view counter, tags and RSS. Things like archives and linking the tags etc. will come about as I have time. Not to mention any bugs I run in to.",[10,23,24],{},"It's been a good learning experience. Now I just need to get back to blogging on something more topic-worthy.",[10,26,27],{},"Cheers.",{"title":29,"searchDepth":30,"depth":30,"links":31},"",2,[],"2013-06-22","md",{},true,"/blog/2013-06-22-this-blog-is-now-home-grown",{"title":5,"description":12},"this-blog-is-now-home-grown","blog/2013-06-22-this-blog-is-now-home-grown",[41,42,43],"ColdFusion","CFML","FW1","A-ZROFOXRkEaPOYsNsyxZxvPNeJxzi7bSk494H7rvpk"]