I am looking for a blogging engine / CMS for a personal website to post .NET articles. I came across a blog that has a really nice layout and very appealing way of posting code. Anyone knows which blogging engine it uses?
Any other recommendations will be really appreciated.
The CMS engine on the site you linked appears to be a custom built ASP.NET CMS, as written on the author's software portfolio.
The layout of the blog, and the way code is displayed, largely depends on the specific template you use, and not on the blog engine.
Anyway, on an ASP.NET platform the two most popular CMS engines seem to be Graffiti or dasBlog. If the platform doesn't actually matter, Wordpress would be my first suggestion, in terms of ease of use and popularity (and number of available plug-ins).
Looking at the source, I see the source code in a div with class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent". I searched for that on Google Code Search, and found a single hit, which is followed by the line: "Code highlighting produced by Actipro CodeHighlighter (freeware) http://www.CodeHighlighter.com/".
And/or you could scroll down to his "First Post" where he describes exactly the technology stack he's using.
Scott Hanselman blogged about this syntax highlighter. He uses a tool called SyntaxHighlighter.
I personally prefer Google's Code Prettify for my own blog. I wrote a blathering blog post on this subject entitled Blogging about your Code.
It's not too hard to integrate these syntax highlighting Javascript-based tools into any CMS or blog engine.
Best of luck!