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  • Rebuilding CoasterBuzz, Part IV: Dependency injection, it's what's for breakfast

    Rebuilding CoasterBuzz, Part IV: Dependency injection, it's what's for breakfast

    Apr 12
    11

    (Repost from my personal blog.) This is another post in a series about rebuilding one of my Web sites, which has been around for 12 years. I hope to relaunch soon. More: Part I: Evolution, and death to WCF Part II: Hot data objects Part III: The architecture using the "Web stack of love" If anything generally good for the craft has come out of the rise of ASP.NET MVC, it's that people are more likely to use dependency injection, and loosely couple the pieces parts of their application...

  • Impressions on jQuery Mobile

    Impressions on jQuery Mobile

    Apr 12
    10

    For the uninitiated, jQuery Mobile is a sweet little client framework that turns regular HTML into something more touch and mobile friendly. It results in a user interface that has bigger targets, rounded corners and simple skinning capability. When it was announced that ASP.NET MVC 4 would include support for a mobile-sensitive view engine, offering up alternate views for clients that fit the mobile profile, I was all over that. Combined with jQuery Mobile, it brought a chance to do some ex...

  • Rebuilding CoasterBuzz, Part I: Evolution, and death to WCF

    Rebuilding CoasterBuzz, Part I: Evolution, and death to WCF

    Feb 12
    29

    This is a repost from my personal blog... Last weekend, I showed a very early behind-the-scenes preview of what will eventually be the next version of CoasterBuzz (the fifth major revision in 12 years) to some folks that participated in the PointBuzz off-season tour at Cedar Point. It's very early in the process, but I thought it would be fun to talk about some of the things that have changed over the years. This series of posts probably won't mean much to non-code-monkeys, but it's fun for...

  • 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 v9.2 posted to CodePlex, with new languages, post voting and the scoring game

    POP Forums v9.2 posted to CodePlex, with new languages, post voting and the scoring game

    Jan 12
    24

    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. Check out the live preview: http://popforums.com/Forums Setup instructions are available in the documentation section. Upgrading? If you're upgrading from v9.0 or v9.1, simply replace the existing files. You'll also have to run the PopForums4.xto4.2.sql SQL script against your existing database. That ...

  • 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...