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Anatomy of an ASP.NET site for amusement park fanboys
This is a post I've meant to write for a very long time. Since 1998, my part-time job of sorts has been to maintain a number of community sites. One of those, started ten years ago, was Guide to The Point . "The Point" in this case is Cedar Point, an...
POP Forums v8: Now available for download!
As I mentioned a little more than a week ago, I was getting close to a point where I felt POP Forums v8 was ready for public consumption. Well, the time has come! You can download the bits here: http://www.popforums.com/ I've decided that I will charge...
POP Forums v8: Release details
Yes, it does exist. After talking about it for nearly four years, I feel like it's something almost ready for release into the wild. I want to share some of my plans here, and will keep you updated in the near future on where the bits are. First, the...
A strange tale of HttpApplication.AuthenticateRequest and Trace
You know how sometimes you think you're pretty sure you know what the sum total of your database shenanigans are in any given ASP.NET page, but you want to make sure? Well, under load it's hard to do a SQL trace and really see what the hell is going on...
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Gotchas and learnings from refactoring to use ASP.NET AJAX
I promise that one of these days soon I'm going to talk a little about where POP Forums v8 is headed, and what you'll be able to do with it. I don't imagine there's a huge demand for the app, but regardless, it will be available. In any case, I spent...
POP Forums v8, in the wild (it does exist)
After mostly sitting on a mostly functional, if not feature complete, build of POP Forums v8 for almost a year, I deployed it as a part of the second coming of PointBuzz , the most popular unofficial fan site for Cedar Point amusement park. It was kind...
The weirdness between VS dev server and IIS
Every once in awhile I find some strange differences between IIS and the ASP.NET dev server that comes in Visual Studio. The previous item was that IIS seems to have at least two instance of HttpModules, while the dev server only has one. The new one...
Is it worth paying for an ASP.NET app these days?
I've spent some reasonable time on POP Forums v8 lately, after, what, talking about it for two years? I have a big old feature list that I'd like to tackle, but I've got it pretty close to feature equivalent at least. I've got a build here with lots-o...
New Digg comments better, commenters are what sucks, forum threading, AJAX
I love Digg for a lot of reasons, but the problem is that stories and comments are not dug or buried for their merit, people do so based on whether or not they agree with it. For the comment system in particular, that makes it broken. The new comment...
POP Forums: Milestone I
So it's a month and a half later than I had hoped (or several years, depending how I choose to look at it), but I finally got POP Forums to the first milestone in the ground-up rewrite. My goals for M1 were pretty straight forward: Let go of the legacy...
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