More about Regex Blogs

Senkwe Chand left the following comment on my last entry and I thought that I'd answer it here to clear any confusion that might exist:

Hi Darren, I guess I should really direct this to ScottW, but, in order to have a blog listed at regexblogs, doesn't that imply that you need to have a .Text (and therefore .Net) powered blog? If so, I doubt that you'll get many (if any) Java, Ruby or Perl afficionados maintaining blogs there. I really hope I'm wrong about that because I've just started work on my own regex tool and would love to have a blog hosted there at some point :-)

Having a blog at regexblogs.com doesn't require you to have any software of your own at all. Essentially, we (http://regexadvice.com) host the application on our servers and provide you with an account and free space to manage your own content. The content is owned by you, we simply manage/host the blog software; in this case .Text.

.Text is an excellent piece of blog'ging software and has tons of features. On top of that, because it is used for the blogs at weblogs.asp.net you can be pretty sure that it will be kept up to date with the current trends as the blogging community continues to evolve the standard for this kind of application.

So, in answer to your question Senkwe, if you sign up for a blog with regexblogs.com you won't have to maintain any software, hardware etc., you simply need internet access to login and add your entries! :-)

Also, just to be clear, the site's focus is regular expressions, not .NET regular expressions.