Jeff Makes Software

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:

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.

I've written time and time again about how annoyed I get when developers spend incredible amounts of time putting others down under the guise of some nonsense academic debate. It annoys me to no end. Well sit back and block off your afternoon, because here's a post from someone called Stevey that brings it to an entirely new level.

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 a handful of helper methods in POP Forums (which is so close to a public beta that I can smell it), I figured it'd be easy enough to output the various calls to the Trace in ASP.NET, along with some execution times. Easy it was.

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.

...You realize that it has an SMTP client class that you wrote to be more flexible than the System.Web.Mail classes that wrapped CDONTS back in the day before .NET 2.0, and it's still there. Ouch. 

Frans had a really good post about some things he has observed in the "alt.net" world. Honestly, with all of the blog posts I see on this "movement" lately, you'd think there was a cure for cancer just around the corner. As if it's that important.

It's strange how some posts on this blog get comments even to this day, one of them being a post about how Valve's Steam was a pile of crap that seemed to drag down Half-Life. I remember even later that year, my former wife has many complaints about it.