We're always working on something cool at Telligent , whether it be an entirely new product or some type of addition or extension to Community Server . Some good examples are some of the things we came up with in Hackathon II, including the couple of IM clients that work with Community Server messaging. If you haven't already read about some of the thing we came up with you can see them here and here . Recently over a late night IM session with Dave Donaldson , we pondered the benefits of certain...
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I'm not a big fan of Source Code Management integration with Visual Studio. I don't know, maybe VSS soured me years ago. When using Vault in the past I installed the Visual Studio integration tools once and uninstalled them a few days later. While using Subversion almost exclusively over the last three years I've been more than happy using TortoiseSVN in an explorer window. The separation of SCM and programming IDE has been refreshing and actually lends itself well to the way Subversion works by...
I recently added membership, accounts, login, etc. to the AspDotNetMVC site. While doing so I decided I wanted to support OpenID, too. However, I didn't want to go with only OpenID because I needed ASP.NET Membership in place to work in conjunction with another application, a Kigg site used as a service for rating content on the AspDotNetMVC site. I could have probably converted the Kigg code base to use OpenID but I also wanted to allow people who may not have OpenID to create traditional accounts...
In yesterday's post I started providing some detail about my use of Kigg to add rating functionality to the AspDotNetMVC site . Because I wanted to integrate the ASP.NET Membership store between the two sites into an external database I started by decoupling the membership data from the Kigg database, model and code. My end goal was to allow visitors to the AspDotNetMVC site to view the number of existing votes for each article (blog post, buzz, news, or video) and to vote for an article if they...
I've finally gotten around to answering Michael Eaton's question: How did you get started in software development? How old were you when you started programming? How did you get started in programming? I think that the first time that I got the concept of writing instructions for computers to execute was probably somewhere around 7th or 8th grade - 12 years old I guess. A couple of classmates were playing around on the one Apple IIc (?) in our math classroom and wrote one of the all time classic...
This evening I posted an update to the AspDotNetMVC site that includes allowing voting on the ASP.NET MVC blog posts, buzz, articles and news that the site collects. You can see a page that uses it here: http://aspdotnetmvc.com/blogs . Rather than create my own rating system I decided to leverage Kigg instead. I mentioned in a previous post that I had been looking at Kigg and that I had upgraded it from ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 to Preview 3 . Why not use Kigg? It has nearly everything that I need, it...
I finally got around to adding a picture of me to this blog, thanks to some prodding (you know who you are!). After doing so I realized that this theme is getting a little bit crowded and dated. I hate to add to my to-do list but I'm now in search of something else. Move my personal blog to Graffiti . Choose one of the existing out of the box Graffiti themes, choose one of Rich's themes - I really like the PointSpace one, or create a new one. I want something much simpler than this one whatever way...
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I know what you're thinking, "Three posts in one day? This can't be the same blog I've been following for the last month or so. What is wrong with my RSS reader?" As far as I know there is nothing wrong with your RSS reader. This is my third post today. My recent lack of regular blog posts and my sadly unnoticed disappearance from Twitter and the rest of the microblogging universe can simply be explained by the following: Doing some recovering and catching up on delinquent household maintenance after...
The last couple of weeks have been very busy and very different for me. Two weeks ago today I relinquished my hold on the ASP.NET Sites' Team, where for nearly the last two years I have been working on www.asp.net , forums.asp.net , weblogs.asp.net and wiki.asp.net . I transitioned to the Telligent Product Team, specifically the Community Server Team. Joining the CS team was actually a goal of mine since I joined Telligent in September 2006. Since I started in the business (early '99) I've always...
A couple of months ago I wrote two posts with some specs that I had been considering for building an inexpensive Windows Home Server (" In Search of an eco-friendly economical Home Server " and " In Search of an eco-friendly economical Home Server 2 "). Unfortunately I have yet to pull the trigger on buying the hardware to build a little WHS box, but I am getting closer (and smaller and more energy efficient) to buying and building. I will post a list of parts once I've made my decision and completed...
Yesterday I posted about updating Kigg to Preview 3 . Immediately after publishing that post I realized that other than doing a find-and-replace of some of the code in the unit tests I had not tried running them, I assumed they would work. Bad assumption, lesson learned. While upgrading the code for the Kigg web site was fairly simple, upgrading the unit tests to get all passing green lights was not as easy. The biggest issue was that in Preview 2 the return type of the Contoller methods were void...
I downloaded Kigg from CodePlex, a Digg like application written with ASP.NET MVC, a few weeks ago and began playing around with it this evening. The current source code is setup for the MIX08 Preview 2 version not the current version, Preview 3. I have Preview 3 installed and did not want to go back so I set about updating it. The process went pretty well considering this was my first time really doing anything with the MVC framework. I plan on submitting a patch of the needed updates once I can...
According to FeedBurner the count of my blog subscribers has been steadily decreasing the last couple of weeks. I can't blame those quitters because my posts have been few and far between. But for those of you beautiful and intelligent people with enough patience to wait for something worthwhile - you're in luck today. Several days ago I was working with a LINQ to SQL statement where I wanted to get an item if it's name existed in a string array of passed in values. I needed a LINQ translation for...
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