Nothing annoys me more than looking at a websites source code and seeing a big huge mess. Incorrect indentation, no standardization, incorrect HTML tags, and my biggest gripe: CSS/JavaScript files in the wrong place.
I’ve started with my first open-source project on CodePlex called SimpleForum and I’m looking for some help. It’s based on ASP.NET MVC3 and uses Ninject for Dependency Injection.
SimpleForum needs to be, as the name suggests, a forum that is simple and easy to use to both end-user and administrators.
So, you need to setup a new forum for your website or a business – what instantly pops into your head; vBulletin? phpBB maybe? Or even Invision Board? Yeah, they’re all PHP based. SimpleForum aims to be the vBulletin, phpBB and Invision Board of the ASP.NET world. View the Documentation if you wish to check the project out, or just view the screenshots. Any help would be appreciated so take a look at the Issue Tracker or get stuck-in, do a check out and feel free to submit patches 
PubNub is a new real-time cloud-based subscribe/publish API, it’s basically a hosted version of APE but we require no servers, minimal setup and a cross-platform API including JS, PHP and C# – perfect!
I’ve been struggling lately to get Facebook to work inside my Unity game as I wanted to use the new Graph API and the compiled .dll had to be .NET 2.0 to work within Unity. There was also the issue of finding a good JSON library that worked with .NET 2.0 and the fact that Mono had issues accessing https via the System.Net library…
Following up on this post I finally managed to get around and finish my Facebook application, MySubs, which allows you to share your SubCard information with your friends. Here’s my information that I published to the stream:
Subway have recently brought out subcards into the UK as they was previously NI only and I had this crazy idea about making a Facebook application that would allow users to share their Subway purchases, favorite sandwiches, stores, etc. with their Facebook friends and allow them to post this information to the Live Feed.
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So, I’m pretty open minded when it comes to technology, especially diving head-first into programming languages but for some reason I’ve always had a personal vendetta and hatred towards Java even though I’ve never touched the language. I think it comes from my line-of-work; clients ringing up complaining that this Java plugin isn’t working or their browser crashes because of a Java applet. Anyhow, vendettas aside I decided to dive in – fueled with wine gums and semi-naked…
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When using a third-party product with any Microsoft product it usually spells trouble and you know some rough times are ahead – especially in this case where I was trying to retrieve a list of accounts on Dynamics CRM via SOAP and PHP.
I recently came across a client who wasn’t happy with the Outlook Web Interface while accessing their e-mail from home and wanted to access it from Outlook as if they was in the office – not a problem at all with Exchange over HTTPS, right?
Just thought I’d share a quick post; I’ve been using Kohana (PHP framework) in my recent project and I must say it’s the best framework I’ve used, albeit I’ve only used CakePHP and CodeIgniter so I can’t compare it to much.
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