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Rolling my own – TomAnderson.me

Tom Anderson — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:35:45 GMT

Well, that’s it.

I am just going to roll my own, what better way to learn, than to do (paraphrased from “The only source of knowledge is experience.” by Albert Einstein).

I have installed ASP.Net MVC 2, and am downloading Visual Studio 2010 Premium RC (which luckily has a “go live” license attached to it). This will allow me to utilize not only the newest in ASP.Net MVC, but also start working on .Net 4.0, which is another one of my goals.

So for today, I want to get the project started up, separate out the projects in the specific concerns and areas, as well as stripping out any sort of Windows Authentication/Forms Authentication in a traditional ASP.Net fashion for the wonderfulness of OpenId.

Once I have the site structure, as well as the logins, I want to start working on the base master page. For now I will most likely style it after a cleaned up version of the current TomAnderson.me – I like the colors, but obviously for copyright reasons, I will have to make some adjustments and roll my own images for the site.

Because my hosting does not yet support .Net 4.0 (because it is an RC) I won’t be able to get live updates until they do, but I plan on posting it up to a codeplex or Google code project for anyone to enjoy and comment on, all feedback is welcome.

The first iterations are going to be very strongly about getting some of the things I want to do fleshed out (site.com/sandbox/blah) most likely, and then re-identifying things I like across the web, and figuring out how to implement them, either on the client, or the server.

Well, while I download the 2.2gb of Visual Studio 2010, I will be creating the directory structure and the hosted source control, will update when those are available.

AtomSite – Well that lasted about 20 minutes

Tom Anderson — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:07:40 GMT

So I downloaded and installed AtomSite, checked it out, the front end seemed pretty good, the admin section was quite nice, and the plugin architecture seemed… sharepointy…

I then took a look at the source code, and seriously decided against it. I am looking for a pure ASP.Net MVC application to work with if I don’t write my own, unfortunately AtomSite is not, it uses some things from ASP.Net MVC, but in fact is using a custom View engine (which I don’t want at this point), and a lot of overhead on the code.

I am looking for simple, light, and easily modified code. Looks like I might still be rolling my own, as this just isn’t what I am looking for at this point.

Back to the drawing board, literally…

AtomSite – Site Development Continues

Tom Anderson — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:29:49 GMT

So, a while back I had mentioned something about creating a site for TomAnderson.me.

Originally I was going to write the entire thing from scratch, then release the source, etc… Well, life happens, I don’t have that kind of time, and I want to “get in an code”.

I am going to check out the Atom Site open source project for ASP.Net MVC and see how I like it, who knows, I might actually get the site up and running in the next few years.

Anyway, off to the races!