Easy Performance and Query Logging in ASP.NET with Serilog and MiniProfiler
I've been playing around with Serilog and have been really, really impressed. If you're not familiar with it, Serilog provides a very nice logging API with the ability to log entire object graphs in addition to flag messages. It's also really extensible and has a lot of community support.
Serving Extensionless URLs with OWIN
I recently had a need for an embedded web server. In the past, I've used a variety of libraries for this purpose (including building my own kind-of standards-compliant HTTP server - don't do this), but have always had my eye on the OWIN specification and related projects. Specifically, the Katana project from Microsoft looked interesting. Each previous time I investigated it, it looked like it was still pretty rough and needed a little more time. I was pleased to find what looked like a mature and easy to integrate library this time around though.
Converting My Blog to Wyam
I recently launched a new static site generator, and I figured what better test of whether it's ready for widespread use than to convert my entire blog to use it. Given that this blog was originally built with ASP.NET MVC, it should be a good fit for converting over to a Razor-based static site generator. The process was actually easier than I thought it would be and suggests that Wyam is already ready for production use on personal sites, blogs, etc.