Over the weekend, I made some changes to the blog.

The underlying software has been updated to the latest dasBlog which has some nice enhancements.

I've built a new UI on top of DasBlog as well that looks a bit better than the oh-so-stylish, white on gray on darker gray style I have right now.  The new graphics will go live on July 18th.  The new 'blog' is much more of a site, and has links to the blog, whitepapers, demos, webcasts, and my history/resume. The timing of that launch will coincide with the CTP release of InfoCenter (my pet project).  For those who can't wait until next week, here's a sample screenshot from the version running locally:

While you won't see that live until next week, what you can see today are two big changes tied to categorization.  You will now be able to easily filter on just those posts from a particular month, as well as by a particular category. I actually went back and categorized every one of the posts going back to last October, and will categorize each post going forward. 

I found that as the blog was evolving, there were now enough posts that some items that people were interested in were getting lost in all the posts. While there's a big chunk of people that read the blog for WCF/WF/CardSpace info, there is also a sizable number that liked the blog to read about my entries about Technology Futures (context, trust, identity).

To make the blog more accessible, the following categories have been added -

Announcements

Atlas

Cardspace

Context

CRM

Demos

Ideas

Identity

Interop

Legacy

Live

Meet

Other

Presentations

Search

SQL

Technology Futures

Trust

Virtualization

Visual Studio

WCF

Webcasts

WF

WPF