KodeBits

KodeBits Progress…

Jeff Sheldon — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:13:33 GMT

Well progress is pretty good actually. I’ve got a basic framework done. And a decent layout established. It’s not fantastic, but hey, I never said I was a designer.

Only had a few hours each night to work on it, so it’s not going as fast as I’d like, that, and I’m never 100% happy with my end result, so I keep refactoring to clean things up.

I’ve been trying to put all of my “Logic” into a separate layer. Make the controllers aware, but dumb. The issue there, is that it’s been pushing my business logic into my Service layer, and I don’t think I like that. I think I’ll need another layer in between.

So I’ve been tossing around the idea of making KodeBits open source. I have no intentions on selling it or anything, maybe some adsense on there or something, so that’s not my concern.

I have two fears.

1. This would be my first open source app. And it fears me to put myself out there like that. It’s hard enough writing to a blog that no one reads, I think I’ll fall out of my chair when I get my first comment.

2. I try to make my applications secure, but I’m all by myself here, and I make mistakes. I’d hate to make it easier for someone to hack my site because I leave the source out there for anyone to look at.

Oh well, I’ll think about it…

So I’ve got my OpenID Authentication setup the way I like. And a basic flow for initial authentication, but it still needs work. I added a “Credits” section too..Only fair because I’m using other peoples stuff too. i.e. DotNetOpenAuth. I also feel I need to throw some serious credit to the guys over at stackoverflow. It feels like I’m borrowing from the “Feel” when you’re over there. Think I might have to send an email to them to make sure I don’t piss them off.

Oh well, off to bed!

Oh yeah….

Jeff Sheldon — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:31:10 GMT

I forgot a couple of things I wanted to say…

Firstly, it’s been a while since I updated Subtext, so I went ahead and did that. And just in case you’re as dumb as I am, late me save you a few minutes by informing you to make sure you don’t copy up the web.config blindly. Oh yeah…there was 5 minutes of my time wasted digging around for the connection string to the blog’s database so I could put the site back together…Good times….

But back to KodeBits. I wanted to touch on my reasoning behind this.. I’ve been playing around with ASP.NET MVC for a little while now, and I’ve been really looking for a site to build with it. And now that ASP.NET MVC 2 is on it’s way, I finally figure something out. The technologies I’m using are:

SubSonic AND Entity Framework (That’s right both)
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Will upgrade to 2.0 once that’s in VS2010)
Structure Map – Don’t know how I got along without this..
A whole lot of jQuery love

Yeah, I’m using a simple repository pattern, and I wanted to have two different repository types built off of my Interfaces. Why? Cuz I can. I know it’s extra work, but I like the idea of being able to flip between two for no reason whatsoever. Plus I wanted to show a colleague the benefits of the repository/interface approach.

Hrm, ok I think that’s it for real this time.

Blog? What Blog?

Jeff Sheldon — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:48:48 GMT

So I put “Stylez” or whatever on hold. I re-read Rob Conery’s post and put a little more thought into it. I decided a “Blog” isn’t something I want to write, at least right now. But I did decide on something that I’ve been working on.

No details yet, but what I will say is this.

I registered the domain KodeBits.com
Layed out my initial design.
Setup my basic Layers
Setup OpenID authentication using DotNetOpenID (Thanks to Andrew Arnott)
Setup a Logo (See below)

I’m pretty set now with what I want to do. I’ll give you a clue though, my inspiration came from this post from Drew Miller about the release of Color Code 1.0.

Also, I’ve started working recently with Dario Solera on ScrewTurn Wiki. IMO one of the best pieces of Wiki software out there. Dario put’s a lot of effort into it, and I think it shows. Not to mention it’s free, and open source.

Ok that’s enough, back to work!