Contents tagged with DevCampus.com
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DevCampus Invitation-Only Beta
One thing I failed to mention in my last post was that once DevCampus is ready for testing, I'm going to have a 3-week Beta period before I officially put it out on the net. I know that an "invitation-only" Beta probably smacks of Google-elitism but, the truth is, I'm just one person and can only handle beta testing feedback from a certain number of testers.
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DevCampus and Technical Writing
November has been quite a busy month for me and it looks like things are only going to get busier until the end of January.
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DevCampus Update - Admin tools complete! (with pics)
In the spirit of building hype for something that's not quite there yet....
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Articles Table
Recently I posted about what fields you might want to include if you were building a newsletters table so I thought somebody out there might find it useful if I posted information on how I'm building my Articles table. DevCampus is going to contain technical content in the form of articles so the Articles table is going to have quite a number of columns. This is your chance to provide feedback to me too, while I'm still building the database. I've visited various technical websites and looked at what they offer along with their articles to help form my ideas. Anyway, I'll get right to it:
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What is your RSS strategy and how is it designed?
As I've been working on my DevCampus.com website, one of the things I am taking very seriously and spending time thinking about and researching is my RSS strategy (or "xml feeds" in general, I'd like to at least offer ATOM and maybe another format to please everyone).
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Amazon.com Web Services
Since I'm an author and I like to write about technical stuff, I'd really like to be able to use Amazon.com's web services to display books on my DevCampus.com website that relate to the topic(s) covered in an article or whatever text is on the page. Sorta like the way Google AdSense works, but for books. For example, on an article page that covers XML Web Services, I'd like to see the top 4 or 5 search results for XML Web Services (w/ a cover shot image, associate link, price (maybe), isbn, star rating (maybe), etc.) in a simple ASP.NET user/server control package. From what I've looked at so far, it seems like Amazon.com Web Services are up to the task. And it's free to register as a web services developer - nice.
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Newsletter Table(s)
As part of my DevCampus website, I plan on allowing people to get newsletters via email or RSS. For those newsletters, I'm building a database table and trying to think of every kind of possible attribute (column) associated with my newsletters I might want to track. After asking my friend Darren for his input he suggested I blog about it to get feedback from readers and so, here you have this blog post. I'm sure a lot of you guys have built a "newsletter table" or something similar before - if so - what did your table or tables look like?
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DevCampus - status update
I figure there might actually be 1 or 2 readers of my blog that care how I'm coming on my website project 'DevCampus'. It's also good for me to write about my progress so I can evaluate where I'm at in my mind. Since the only time I really have to work on it is weeknights after work and weekends I was having to take a lot of time usually spent doing other things and work on the website instead. I soon realized that totally neglecting certain things couldn't continue so I've had to moderate my time spent on it. I've made really good progress on the admin tools and the behind-the-scenes stuff that only DevCampus authors/admins/helpers will ever see but still, stuff that had to be built. I've also been brainstorming as I go and have come up with some really cool ideas for the site. I'll discuss them more when the site is closer to being ready. Since I've taken on writing a couple of How-To-Select Guides for Xtras that's taken up a fair amount of "after hours" time, too. It doesn't help that this past weekend was spent driving down to SoCal and back for a wedding (but I gladly did so...I wanted to be there). Since about half of July will be taken up with vacation and other work it looks like I'll resume DevCampus work around mid-July. I'm hoping to launch the site before the end of the year though so, I've really gotta bust my hump. Once the first "beta" version of the site is ready - I'll invite (by invitation only) people to test drive it for me so if you'd be interested in doing something like that, ping me.
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ASP.NET Hosting and Bad Hosts
As I keep progressing on development of DevCampus, occasionally I get sidetracked thinking about having to choose a hosting company. Right now a friend of mine has been gracious enough to loan me an IP address and some space on a server of his that's hosted by MaximumASP. However, I think (or I should say I hope) after DevCampus has been around for a while it's going to be chewing through a lot of bandwidth and become a burden to the other sites that might share the box with me. So, as I come across sites with the .aspx extension I check around to see if they mention who their host is.
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Another article got published & DevCampus coming along
I guess this a two-subject post. Hopefully I'll start having more to blog about.