Jeff Makes Software
The software musings of Jeff Putz
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Open source adventures with... wait for it... Microsoft
Last week, Microsoft announced that it was going to open source the rest of the ASP.NET MVC Web stack. The core MVC framework has been open source for a long time now, but the other pieces around it are also now out in the wild. Not only that, but it's not what I call "big bang" open source, where you release the source with each version. No, they're actually committing in real time to a public repository. They're also taking contributions where it makes sense.
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Rebuilding CoasterBuzz, Part II: Hot data objects
This is the second post, originally from my personal blog, in a series about rebuilding one of my Web sites, which has been around for 12 years. More:
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Rebuilding CoasterBuzz, Part I: Evolution, and death to WCF
This is a repost from my personal blog...
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POP Forums v9.3 Beta posted with mobile views for ASP.NET MVC 4
Download the bits from CodePlex here. Visit a live demo (preferably on a mobile device) here.
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Google AdSense: You suck
Like a lot of Web publishers, I depend pretty heavily on AdSense to generate revenue and pay the bills. A good server isn't free. So imagine my horror when, on Thursday, the numbers dropped between 50 and 80%, depending on the site. Something is horribly wrong.
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Abstracting away issues of HttpContext from your ASP.NET MVC controllers
I've noticed that I write software in one of three modes:
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Using the Scoring Game from POP Forums with your ASP.NET MVC app
Let me tell you a story of HR-discouraged workplace fun. Back in the day, prior to the crash-and-burn of Insurance.com, we had this thing in the development part of the company called the Scoring Game. I wrote about it a couple of years ago on my personal blog. The long and short of it is that we kept a running total of +/-1’s for virtually anything you can think of, for each participant. This was back in 2006, before it became trendy to do it for everything else on the Internets.
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POP Forums v9.2.1 posted to CodePlex, adds only Spanish translation
Just wanted to drop a quick note to say that I've got an updated version of our most recent POP Forums drop. The new v9.2.1 adds Spanish along side of Danish, German and English as available languages. It has no new features or bug fixes, so if you have v9.2.0, and you don't need Spanish, these aren't the droids you're looking for.
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POP Forums v9.2 posted to CodePlex, with new languages, post voting and the scoring game
POP Forums v9.2.0 is the third release for the ASP.NET MVC3 version of POP Forums. It is feature complete, stable, and ready for feedback. For previous release notes, see previous releases.
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Wanted: Language translations for .resx files in open source POP Forums
Starting with v9.2, POP Forums will be fully capable of localization. I'm looking for people who can help translate the .resx file in this open source project, which is fairly straight forward. I'll take help for any language, but I'm particularly interested in: