Everything you never wanted to know
About Me
Hi, my name's Aaron Powell and I'm an alcoholic. Or wait, is this the right forum to be talking about that? Hmm...
Actually I'm a 20-something year old software developer living in Sydney Australia. My main development platform is ASP.NET, both Web Forms and MVC.
I've been developing professionally since 2005 where I started at Next Digital in Melbourne. I then moved to Sydney to take up a position at TheFARM Digital. Towards the end of 2010 I left TheFARM and joined Readify as a Senior Developer and Technical Specialist (Web).
Throughout my few years as a professional developer I've been spread across a number of CMS, from OpenText (formerly RedDot CMS), Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and most prominently Umbraco.
I've been on the Umbraco core team since 2009 when I was asked to join so I could produce LINQ to Umbraco, for the upcoming 4.1 release. In September of 2011 I was stood down as a committing member of Umbraco.
I also contribute to several other open source projects:
About this site
This would be about version 7 of www.aaron-powell.com, and it's the first for quite a while that I haven't used Umbraco as the blogging engine.
I was looking to move into using a MVC-based blogging engine for quite some time now, but the problem was that I don't really have the time to work on it. Luckily the work was done for me!
Brisbane developer Paul Stovell created a blog engine which I really liked the look of called PaulPad (you can see more information in his Behind PaulStovell.com post), so I downloaded the source off his SVN server and got playing.
I wanted to do more work with MVC2 though, and since PaulPad is only MVC1 I set about upgrading it, I also upgraded it to the latest version of Autofac (which gave me no ends of grief!), but after about a week of playing I finally got it working again.
Currently I haven't migrated many of my posts from my old website, but I'm going to keep it active for the foreseeable future on legacy.aaron-powell.com. Commenting will be turned off there as well.
So have a dig around, it's a bit of a work in progress at the moment, but so far I'm really quite happy with the new platform. Paul did make a very nice platform.