Until now, my blog has been hosted on our servers using WordPress, a software that I have somewhat grown tired of. Recent versions of WP seem to have suffered from significant feature creep, and the continuous updates made keeping up with all the plug-ins and security patches more time-consuming than actually writing blog posts. This seems to be a sort of leitmotif for PHP systems—instead of focusing on building a common infrastructure that allows them to develop small applications that do one thing well, developers seem to be hellbent on writing systems that are capable of doing everything… only not all that well.

But I digress. Regardless of my personal reasons, I stopped blogging primarily because maintaining the blog was taking more time than I actually have to dedicate to blogging, and it didn’t seem like it was worth the effort. After playing for a (very short) time with the idea of using some of our own infrastructure to build a blog system the way I want it—something that we will probably do at some point in the future when more of our community initiatives come into the wild—I’ve decided that it’s best to just outsource the whole thing to someone who has already done a good job of it and, for once, not give in to built-here syndrome.