Jeff Makes Software

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 to over the last couple of years. My partner on the site and I decided to scale back what we were doing and stick to what we were good at: forums, photos and news, instead of duplicating a ton of content that the official site already provided.

I still get comments on the most random posts on this blog, but none more frequent than on my previous post about the joke that is Xbox support. Read the comments and you'll find more dropped balls than you can imagine.

Seriously, I entered my name into my profile, and it told me, "Your name contains a word or phrase that isn't allowed."

I really like the ASP.NET AJAX script library. The Sys.UI.DomElement class in particular has some really useful pieces parts. As much as I'm enjoying using it, every once in awhile you find one little thing you wish it did.

Out of curiosity, does anyone have invite codes this year for the Mix conference? It's still a bit pricey for those of us who like to attend such things on our dime. 

I've spent some quality time with Visual Studio 2008 now after two weeks, and I feel like I can give a more extensive impression of the product. Aside from my previous complaint about the FTP browser, I've really enjoyed working with it, but I do sometimes feel a little underwhelmed.

There are three things that they didn't fix.

I know I've mentioned before that Xbox game development interests me. So they're doing a new console update, and the features are listed here. Note this one...