Contents tagged with Community News
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POP Forums roadmap and ASP.NET Core
The volatility over ASP.NET Core made me pause (twice) since last fall when it came to porting POP Forums to the new platform. Every new release broke things to the point of frustration, and the RC2 reboot was hard. With SignalR falling a bit behind, it made things worse. But alas, that seems to be mostly behind us, and I've started committing stuff to a branch again, a little at a time, to run on the new ASP.NET. It's not at all usable, and every change seems to invite more changes, but I'm starting to see the potential and love for ASP.NET Core.
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POP Forums v13.0.0 released for ASP.NET MVC!
Yes, it has been entirely too long since the last release, but v13 is here, and it's a big one! This is the first release here on GitHub.
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The indie publisher moving to Azure, part 1: migration
I've been a big fan of cloud-based infrastructure for a long time. I was fortunate enough to be on a small team of developers who built the reputation system for MSDN back in 2010, on Microsoft's Azure platform. Back then, there was a serious learning curve because Azure was barely a product. At the end of the day, we built something that easily could handle millions of transactions per month without sweating, and that was a sweet opportunity. Most people never get to build stuff to that scale.
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POP Forums v12.1.0 released, includes Taiwanese Mandarin translation and bug fixes
This is a point release with bug fixes and a language update. v12.0 was a significant upgrade that includes updates to various packages and use of .NET 4.5.1, as well as MVC 5.
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POP Forums v12 posted, for MVC 5
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Today's ideal developer
Scott Hanselman wrote a short blog post about developers vs. Googlers, but I really love where that inspired Rick Strahl to go. Having been in a lot of positions to hire people over the years, I think Rick really goes in depth with regard to skills, career development and the market reality of what we need out of people.
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POP Forums v11 for ASP.NET MVC posted, with SingalR goodness
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POP Forums v11 Beta for MVC posted on CodePlex
I won’t repost all of the changes here, but this is the version of the app that gets all real-time and stuff (thank you, SignalR!). I also spent some time refining the UI. You can get these naughty bits, and the overall change log, here:
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The burden of hiring software developers
(I wrote this for my personal blog, but it’s obviously an important topic here.)
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Review: Microsoft Surface RT
Being the ever cautious fan of technology, I ordered a Surface RT within minutes of it going live on Microsoft’s store. I received it Friday, and spent the weekend with it, and wrote a review. I posted that review on my personal blog.