.NET Answers

I know I said yesterday that I’d start a series about creating DotNetNuke modules, but I solved a problem yesterday after I wrote that post that I think a lot of you will be interested in.  Especially if you are using WordPress in combination with an ASP.NET site.

The problem we had was this.  We have an ASP.NET web site that requires a login before anyone can see any pages.  We wanted to add a WordPress blog to it that could only be viewed when people log in and wanted to be able to have the same user names in WordPress that they had in ASP.NET.

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What if there was a product that would allow you to create your web site themes as easy as you could create a PowerPoint presentation theme?  Wouldn’t that be cool?

This past weekend I discovered just such a product.  At first, I was pretty skeptical.  I mean, I normally pay $50.00 or so per theme when I put up a DotNetNuke site and here is a product that will let me create very nice themes that I can use in BOTH my ASP.NET based sites AND my WordPress based sites for just over 3 times that price.

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I’ve been playing with TypeScript for the last couple of weeks and I’ve fallen in love.  Now I can write JavaScript code without having to switch between thinking about the problem in terms of object oriented programming (csharp) and kind of sort of object oriented programming (javascript).

But, what I’ve had trouble getting to work is using the sourcemap feature to debug in TypeScript instead of debugging in the resulting JavaScript.  Not that I can’t read the resulting JavaScript, I can.  But, I invariably end up changing the JS source instead of the TS source.

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I received the following question a few days ago but I’ve been so busy with billable work that I just haven’t had a chance to answer it until now.  Actually, I’m still busy, but I hate letting these questions go for too long.

“Right now I am working on a project where I have to screen a user.  This is a multi-step process.  At the end of the process I store the data back to the system. Currently, I am storing all the options a user will select in a session variable and then finally using them at the last step. Can you please suggest a better way to store this temporary data that does not require using a session? This type of situation comes up a lot.  We’ve used multiview to get it working. But this does not seem to be viable in all situations.”

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Do you want to increase your followers?  Or are you as sick as I am of the various products that will help you increase your follower count?

I’ve been on Twitter now for several months and the one thing I’ve noticed is the obsession with having the greatest number of followers.

This is most obvious in the number of automated direct messages I receive that are essentially selling yet another product that will either automate the follow/un-follow process for you, telling you where the free tools are that will do this for you, or linking to services that are essentially pyramid schemes.  All playing on the etiquette of always following someone who is following you.

Here are some of my thoughts on the phenomenon.

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