Carl Franklin

.NET Wonk

MSDN to host .NET Rocks!!!!!

MSDN has agreed to mirror the .NET Rocks! show!

I don't have a URL yet, but our new .NET Rocks! site will now offer another mirror site for downloading WMA versions of the show.

In addition, SecureWebs has agreed to mirror the show. Thanks to Scott for helping us set that up. I'll tell you how we're managing the stats in a later post, but it involves VB.NET and webservices!

Speaking of stats, are there any web stats packages out there that either don't suck or don't cost 10K and up? I'm tempted to write one, but I don't have that kind of time.

Anyway, lots of options coming soon. It's great to see so many people listen to the show and feel part of the community. It truly is great.

Posted: Oct 09 2003, 10:49 PM by Carl Franklin | with 11 comment(s)
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Dan Bright said:

Check out this post by Brian Desmond [1] about AWStats [2]. This is what I use on my servers now.

1: http://weblogs.asp.net/bdesmond/posts/26801.aspx

2: http://awstats.sourceforge.net/
# October 9, 2003 11:11 PM

tim h said:

www.deepmetrix.com (LIveStats)
# October 10, 2003 1:33 AM

Carl Franklin said:

Yeah, that's the one I use. It sucks. It's always breaking, the reported data is wrong, and its got Java all over it. They have been unresponsive to my requests to add web services, and in general it's very slow.

# October 10, 2003 1:35 AM

Carl Franklin said:

Wouldn't it be nice to have a .NET stats program? ASP.NET based, SQL, web services, etc?

*sigh*
# October 10, 2003 1:36 AM

Mike Sax said:

Check out http://www.SmarterTools.com - it's 100% .NET. Great to see you blogging Carl!
# October 10, 2003 2:26 AM

Carl Franklin said:

Wow.. the price is certainly right! Thanks for the tip. Good to hear from you.

Mike, you'll always hold a place in my heart for being a direct descendant of the inventor of that wonderful instrument that made John Coltrane a household name!
# October 10, 2003 2:31 AM

Scott Galloway said:

I currently use SmarterStats (from SmarterTools which Mike mentioned) - it is pretty good (and free for single sites which is nice). In comparison to other tools though, I have to say that it feels a bit 'unfinished' but it is certainly usable and worth trying, but it is not perfect...
# October 10, 2003 4:11 AM

Salman said:

Its great that you got things going with MSDN frank!
# October 15, 2003 12:30 AM

Mac Greg said:

Carl, you should try the new Livestats.net by DeepMetrix....100% .NET (sql backend and a touch of SOAP) and uses page embedding to track stats instead of straight log analysis. I think they learned from 6.x, but it has only been out for a week so it's probably too early to tell. If you have a thing against java, it's still in there, but no one's perfect right?
# December 15, 2003 1:57 AM

Carl Franklin said:

Yeah, I've had enough of those guys. If I hear that other people are using it successfully maybe I'll try it. I wasted a ton of time on that product.
# December 15, 2003 2:28 AM

Carl Franklin said:

Update: SecureWebs is no longer hosting the show since MSDN came along.

Also, I'm almost done with the data-driven asp.net version of the .NET Rocks! website. More consistent, faster, and not just one big page!
# December 15, 2003 2:29 AM
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