This is part 4 in a series about building an Eco-Friendly Economical Windows Home Server. Part 1: In search of an Eco-Friendly Economical Home Server Part 2: In search of an Eco-Friendly Economical Home Server 2, Electric Boogaloo Part 3: A Cheap and Green Windows Home Server Part 4: Ordered parts for Eco-friendly Economical Windows Home Server After some post-mortem review of my order I’m feeling some buyer’s remorse. The case that I ordered for my eco-friendly economical Windows Home Server box...
This is part 4 in a series about building an Eco-Friendly Economical Windows Home Server. Part 1: In search of an Eco-Friendly Economical Home Server Part 2: In search of an Eco-Friendly Economical Home Server 2, Electric Boogaloo Part 3: A Cheap and Green Windows Home Server What a difference six months makes in the price of run-of-the-mill computer desktop hardware. In my last article the cheapest I could get a decently powerful Home Server setup was for about $470 including shipping . By the time...
A couple of months ago I posted how to add OpenID to your existing web site in conjunction with ASP.NET Membership . In the comments a few times I was asked to post the code to the OpenID login user control or to create a sample project to share. Even though there really isn't a lot to the code other than what I shared in that article I said that I would post the sample code. After ScottGu linked to my original post last week I felt compelled to step up the pace of doing so. Below is a link to the...
Over the last several years I’ve gotten into the habit of saving any “kudos” emails that get sent to me into a folder with the creative name of “Kudos”. I don’t know where I picked up this habit, but from time to time I’ve shared this tip with others. After letting Jose in on my little secret earlier today he suggested that I blog about it and share it with everyone. Good idea, Jose. Hopefully this doesn’t kill my competitive advantage :), but here goes… When the occasional email comes in that says...
I wondered when some of these pictures from DevLink would surface. Between the dares and doubts of those who said I couldn't fit into a medium t-shirt - I had to do it. A big "thanks" to Dave Giard for capturing the moment. Check out the guns! I should have flexed for the pics! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | kick it! | live it!
As a web developer I like building new web sites, web applications, mashups, widgets, etc. Just like most other men I like shiny new toys and sometimes not-so-shiny older toys tend to become less used, become a little rusty and maybe even feel a little unloved. If I were able to find a way to graph those two statements we'd see that their intersection occurs at about 9-12 months and afterwards usage drops off dramatically. By that time I've moved on to the next shiny new toy - I've already started...
I joined Telligent nearly two years ago. Over that time we've grown nearly threefold and we're still growing and going strong. Scott W , Rob Howard , Dave Donaldson , the Pentonizer and others have already said it but it bears repeating... We need more great developers! We want to do some really great things in the next version of Community Server, but we need more people to help make them happen. Check out Scott's post for the skills we are looking for . If you fit the bill then we want to hear...
I'm still trying to gather my thoughts after attending DevLink this past weekend. One thing that I want to highlight is how great these regional conferences are and how much they are a perfect fit for Open Spaces . [Much props to Alan Stevens for making the DevLink Open Spaces a huge success] One thought defines this for me: How much would you pay to take part in a group discussion with leading-edgers of the .NET TDD movement like Alan Stevens and Steven Harman and ask them anything you want about...
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...
Lan and Deon go to their local .NET User Group meeting... Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | kick it! | live it!
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...
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