This post is really a message to myself in the future for the next time I try to upgrade Ghost. Dave. You just tried to upgrade Ghost again and it’s not working, right? Dude, what is your problem? Let’s go through the checklist: Did you clear out the existing core directory before you copied the new one over? You know, like the upgrade instructions said you should? No? Well, try that one and redeploy.…

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.…

Nearly my entire professional career has been devoted to developing on Windows platforms, specifically the .NET framework. But every developer needs to stand up and stretch once in a while and expand their body of knowledge to stay current and limber. Lately, one of the hotspots in the software scene has been node.js, a JavaScript based system for creating highly scalable internet applications. This is the story of a C# .…