After it has been running for nearly a year, and with parts of it rewritten in that time span, I've decided to release POP Forums v8 into the wild and see what happens. So what's the delay, and what's my problem? Well, there are three issues that have made me unsure about releasing it into the wild....

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 amusement park an hour west of Cleveland and about...

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 a license fee for the app, but only if you see value...

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 licensing plan. POP Forums has always been something...

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. Because I have all the SQLness funneling through...

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 of the step child site I haven't paid enough attention...

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 I noticed tonight I think has something to do with...

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-data to mess around with . It's nothing ground breaking...

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 that dates back to 2001 and my lack of skill...

I hired a designer to make some rockin' icons (thanks, Jenna!) for the forthcoming POP Forums v8. It's kind of weird how taking a break from the hardcore coding to make things pretty is a very motivating force. It's like the entire thing becomes more real at that point. I finally did something...