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Launch Announcement: DOTENET (Digg Clone)

Its give me immense pleasure to announcement .NET portal - DOTENET (URL: www.dotenet.com). It’s "Digg" style web application dedicated to .NET and relative technologies. This portal will serve as central hub to share articles, tutorials, blog post etc.

When I was planning to create this portal two months back, I was sure that first release of this project will have minimum "must to have" features and later I will add features which are "good to have". And that’s why you will notice many blank pages on this portal. These blank pages are place-holder for features which I will add in coming weeks (depending upon available bandwidth).

The desired goal of creating a community portal cannot be achieved without your active participation. Please register yourself to this portal and share any article or post which you think useful to .NET community. If you find any existing link useful in DOTNET portal, please vote for that link so that link can be push to popular segment.

As you continue participating in this portal, please keep in mind that this community portal needs your feedback to remain alive. Please provide your feedback/opinion/suggestion to my blog (URL: Announcement: DOTENET)

URL: Home Page

URL: Registration Page

Posted: Mar 17 2007, 07:46 PM by firoz.ansari | with 14 comment(s)
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Comments

Bil Simser said:

Why YAP (yet-another-portal) when we already have DotNetKicks that serves this exact same purpose?

# March 19, 2007 8:31 AM

ADotNetGuy said:

The community already has one of these? It's called dotnetkicks.com?

# March 19, 2007 9:37 AM

Boris Yeltsin said:

www.dotnetkicks.com ?

# March 19, 2007 11:38 AM

Dave said:

Why reinvent the wheel?  You even have dotnetkicks in the "Share this post" footer on your post!

# March 19, 2007 2:38 PM

gavinjoyce said:

Hi,

I wish you luck with your project.

I am curious why you created this when DotNetKicks.com has established a large community already?

Gavin Joyce

http://www.dotnetkicks.com/

# March 20, 2007 3:05 PM

Alex Dresko said:

What's wrong with dotnetkicks.com? That makes about as much sense as having two sites exactly like digg.com.

# March 20, 2007 4:10 PM

firoz.ansari said:

Thanks everyone for comment.

As I mentioned in my blog that there are many secondary objectives I have for creating this portal.

1. My first secondary objective is to learn and experience end-to-end Web 2.0 product development. This application was opportunity for me to learn all technical and business aspect of Web 2.0 product development.

2. On technical front, I also wanted to utilize code generation approach to develop ASP.NET/SQL Server application. All of the business objects, façade layer, business service, and data providers for this portal are actually generated using .netTiers application framework using CodeSmith tools.

URL: http://www.nettiers.com/

URL: http://codesmithtools.com/

I recommend every ASP.NET developers to use this code generation framework for their ASP.NET application. This will cut your development effort by 80 percent (from my experience).

3. I also wanted to learn creating aesthetic UI for web application. In my all previous project experience, I usually involved in technical aspect and I didn’t able to concentrate on usability and interface design.

4. My another initial objective was to learn XHTML/CSS (I sucks in working with DIV). But later I drop this objective as I wanted to launch this application ASAP. And that’s why; you can see all of the control placements are done using TABLE/TR/TD. It’s not that I don’t know XHTML, but it’s difficult for a person who worked with TABLE/TR/TD kind of control placement for last 8 years. Look like; I have to come up with another Web 2.0 product to learn XHTML/CSS.

Thanks,

Firoz Ansari

# March 21, 2007 1:12 AM

firoz.ansari said:

Hi Gavin,

Thanks for putting your comment. I just wanted to let you know that I really like DotNetKicks. IMO, it’s a great product and developers will continue to use it to share links.

Thanks,

Firoz Ansari

# March 21, 2007 1:36 AM

DotNetGuts said:

Good Effort.

Go Ahead........

DotNetGuts

Blog: http://www.dotnetguts.blogspot.com

Website: http://www.dailyfreecode.com

# May 3, 2007 9:42 PM

George Chatzimanolis said:

I really like your project, I think it is very good. I am also using NetTiers and I am a big fan of it.

Is it an open source project? If not, is there any chance to be open source in future (I think DotNetKicks will be Open Source).

# May 13, 2007 11:06 AM

ercu said:

@Firoz Ansari

you will have done something different than dotnetkicks if you make it "div" based or open sourced.

# May 13, 2007 10:28 PM

firoz.ansari said:

Ercu,

There are many additional features you can find in DoteNET like search capability

or listing of users who has voted (published/unpublished) and commented for links etc. I am not so strong in working with XHTML but I do planned to rewrite whole  presentation layer to use DIV.

With that, I am also currently working to add other users as friend and expose RSS feed for same.

# May 14, 2007 10:32 AM

Carol said:

It's greate to hear the you used NetTiers and CodeSmith to build your portal/community engine.

Did you end up making alot of changes to the "out of the box" NetTiers templates?

# August 8, 2007 8:23 AM

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