I just wanted to upgrade my blog from the ancient version 0.4.2 of Ghost to the brand spankin’ new 0.7 release. I followed the Ghost upgrade guidance, adjusting it to fit my build which deploys from GitHub to Azure Web Sites. But after the deployment, neither the blog nor the admin console showed up. Just a blank, white screen. The favicon still showed up, so at least I had that going for me.…

Two years ago, when I started this blog, I wanted a place where I could write long form posts. My anti-Twitter. I really enjoy writing those posts and putting them out there for people to read. It’s my hope that people get some help from those kinds of posts. But they’re a lot of work. Often times those posts are offshoots of work that I’m doing, so when I solve a problem that took me awhile, I think about what sort of blog post comes from that and how others could benefit.…

It’s my blog’s cake day! I’ve been blogging for one whole year. The first post was published on September 20, 2011 and it is brimming with caution. I thought I’d blog about a few different topics, some of which I did. But the blog certainly took its on its own direction. I needed an outlet for writing longer posts. It’s my anti-Twitter. I don’t have as much caution now about my posts, for better or worse.…