I spend most of my time working with Ruby on Rails these days. However, I still do .Net programming mainly for ThePlanCollection.com. Our password recovery system has been a bit flaky lately so I decided it was time to review the code and get it into polished condition. I found out that I was redirecting…
Category: ASP.Net
Add Website Search Using ASP.Net and Lucene
I have read a lot about Lucene over the years and finally managed to find an excuse to play with it. I used it to add a general search to ThePlanCollection.com. Here’s a detailed writeup including the code I used to implement search using Lucene on ASP.Net. Enjoy.
hexadecimal value 0x1A, is an invalid character
All of my ASP.Net work these days is for ThePlanCollection.com so I have started publishing my problems and hopefully some solutions there. My most recent problem was the “hexadecimal value 0x1A, is an invalid character” exception when writing out xml. Click the link to get the code to fix the problem.
A Gazillion House Plans on ThePlanCollection.com
I updated ThePlanCollection.com last night. I must admit that updating when you are tired is not always the best idea, but I figure everyone else is probably asleep so there isn’t really a better time. We don’t really have a gazillion house plans, but sometime it feels like it and being able to manage all…
asp.net url rewrites and IIS
Here’s something I am posting so I remember it. I want pretty urls for my latest ASP.Net application – The Plan Collection (2.0, reloaded, you can pick your favorite internet term). Url rewrites work fine using the web server built into Visual Studio 2005. Howerver, IIS is smart about what it lets pass through for…
ASP.net tips and tricks
Scott Guthrie is the man when it comes to ASP.Net – he is in charge of it and it is basically his brain child. Those around the world that write code for the web using a Microsoft platform owe him big kudos. Anyway, when he speaks it is wise to listen. He has a list…
asp.net is fun again
I finally worked through most of the challenges I was faced with and I like asp.net again. It is interesting to program in several environments. I do a lot of Ruby on Rails these days and I love it. However, I have other applications that are written in ASP.Net. I have written quite a bit…
Not because I want to
For a long time now I have been trying to figure out how to update The Plan Collection to an open source platform. I find myself updating it to ASP.Net instead. ASP.Net is ok to work with. I think Ruby on Rails is better. By better I mean simplier. ASP.Net has more stuff. It comes…
The Plan Collection
I have spent the past few weeks working on two projects. One is brand new and very exciting – houseplans.info. I developed that site in Ruby on Rails and it uses mysql on the backend. That project took me about four weeks working a few hours in the evenings. It is a joy to work…
Joining the Rails bandwagon
I have worked in numerous roles as a programmer. My lot has been everything from low level USB firmware to Visual Test to ASP and then ASP.Net. Years ago, when I first saw ASP.Net I thought that I had found the best web framework in the world. I am working on a PhD (here and…