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  • Rebuilding CoasterBuzz, Part III: The architecture using the

    Rebuilding CoasterBuzz, Part III: The architecture using the "Web stack of love"

    Apr 12
    03

    This is the third post in a series about rebuilding one of my Web sites, which has been around for 12 years. I hope to relaunch in the next month or two. More: Part I: Evolution, and death to WCF Part II: Hot data objects I finally hit a point in the re-do of CoasterBuzz where I feel like the major pieces are in place... rewritten, ported and what not, so that I can focus now on front-end design and more interesting creative problems. I've been asked on more than one occasion (OK, just...

  • POP Forums v9.3 Beta posted with mobile views for ASP.NET MVC 4

    POP Forums v9.3 Beta posted with mobile views for ASP.NET MVC 4

    Feb 12
    16

    Download the bits from CodePlex here. Visit a live demo (preferably on a mobile device) here. This is an extremely experimental build of POP Forums v9.3, which includes jQuery Mobile and mobile views baked in for mobile formatting sauce. It requires ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta, which you can download here. Of course, feel free to submit bugs to the issue tracker. See a live demo here: http://popforums.com/Forums What's new? Uses jQuery Mobile and the ASP.NET MVC4 beta to provide mobile-optimized...

  • Using the Scoring Game from POP Forums with your ASP.NET MVC app

    Using the Scoring Game from POP Forums with your ASP.NET MVC app

    Jan 12
    27

    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. Later, Dig...

  • POP Forums v9.2.1 posted to CodePlex, adds only Spanish translation

    POP Forums v9.2.1 posted to CodePlex, adds only Spanish translation

    Jan 12
    26

    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. Want to translate to yet another language? Drop me a line: jeff@popw.com. ...

  • POP Forums v9.1.0 has been posted to CodePlex!

    POP Forums v9.1.0 has been posted to CodePlex!

    Dec 11
    15

    Finally! After moving, being a dad and engaging in a great deal of home improvement, I finally managed to find time to an update out to POP Forums. I hope to not be that guy anymore, going forever between updates. Release Notes This is the first 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. Check out the live preview: http://preview.popforums.com/Forums Setup instructions are ...

  • POP Forums v9 for ASP.NET MVC3 is done!

    POP Forums v9 for ASP.NET MVC3 is done!

    Apr 11
    26

    The release candidate is the final version of v9.0.0. See my previous post for details. Get the bits here: http://popforums.codeplex.com/ Be sure to check out the documentation for information on installation and integration. It will now create all of your database tables for you, for a little less friction in getting set up. Thanks to everyone who offered their feedback and support, especially at Mix during the Open Source Fest. I really had a blast talking to everyone there! ...

  • POP Forums v9 Release Candidate for ASP.NET MVC 3 posted to CodePlex!

    POP Forums v9 Release Candidate for ASP.NET MVC 3 posted to CodePlex!

    Apr 11
    08

    Get the goodies here: http://popforums.codeplex.com/releases/view/63550 Release Notes This is the release candidate for the ASP.NET MVC3 version of POP Forums. It is considered feature complete, stable, and ready for testing and feedback. For previous release notes, see previous releases. Check out the live preview: http://preview.popforums.com/Forums Setup instructions are available in the documentation section. What's new in the RC? Since the second beta: Database, e-mail and user s...

  • POP Forums v9 Beta 2 for ASP.NET MVC 3 posted to CodePlex!

    POP Forums v9 Beta 2 for ASP.NET MVC 3 posted to CodePlex!

    Mar 11
    23

    Get the new bits here: http://popforums.codeplex.com/releases/view/60571 This is the second beta for the ASP.NET MVC3 version of POP Forums. Next step is a release candidate. It is considered feature complete, and ready for testing and feedback. For previous release notes, look here, here, here and here. Check out the live preview: http://preview.popforums.com/Forums Setup instructions are on the home page of this project. What's new in beta two? Since the first beta: Avatars and images...

  • Lessons from rewriting POP Forums for MVC, open source-like

    Lessons from rewriting POP Forums for MVC, open source-like

    Mar 11
    10

    It has been a ton of work, interrupted over the last two years by unemployment, moving, a baby, failing to sell houses and other life events, but it's really exciting to see POP Forums v9 coming together. I'm not even sure when I decided to really commit to it as an open source project, but working on the same team as the CodePlex folks probably had something to do with it. Moving along the roadmap I set for myself, the app is now running on a quasi-production site... we launched MouseZoom las...

  • The MVC3 special sauce in POP Forums

    The MVC3 special sauce in POP Forums

    Jan 11
    24

    I was chatting with a friend about why, as much as I would rather not rewrite POP Forums for the bazillionth time, it has actually been a lot of fun, and smooth sailing on MVC. If you haven't been playing along at home, POP Forums is the forum app that I've been maintaining now since the days of ASP.old, in sites like CoasterBuzz. In late 2009, I decided I'd rewrite it from the ground up as an MVC app, but it was slow going after the birth of my child. But when I did find time to write code, e...