I have just about finished converting my site to ColdFusion. I think it’s close enough to turn on even though it’s lacking content. I was able to get all of my blogs to show up but the pictures are a bit more challenging.

All of my pictures that are in the old Community Server site are kind of locked in there. I can  get to them by URL but they seem to be lost in some magical place other then the file system. I other words, I can’t just go grab them out of the folders; I have to pull them out through Community Server. Because of this I will be keeping my old Community Server site up for a bit.

The blogs are still being written to the Community Server site with Windows Live Writer and then the new ColdFusion site is just pulling the data from the Community Server database. After I get the images into the new site and a backend finished that I can post to the new site I will be abandoning Community Server. And good riddance too.

Community Server has always been a pain in the ass to to code against and in some cases impossible to get it to look and act like I would like. ColdFusion is just a pleasure to work in compared to ASP.NET.

By the end of next week I should have the Facts and Fiction up on the new ColdFusion site and then after that I will whittle away at my images. What you see now is a ColdFusion front end and a Community Server backend. I am hoping that by the end of the winter I will be completely done with Community Server.