I just got an email from my registrar, and my domain is expiring tomorrow. I am currently un-employed, and need $35.00 to renew the domain. If anyone is able to help me with this expense, please send me a PM.

Until this is resolved, you can access my site at tw.it1.biz

Thank you Star Killer and Aileron for your donations. The domain name has been renewed for another year.

Note: DNS propagation may take up to 24 hours.

What's the status of Microblaster.net?

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Well my friend decided to migrate all his VMs from Hyper-V to VMWare, and is having some problems with the conversion. I will check with him tomorrow and see how it is going.

How large is your site? There are tons of free web hosting services these days. Size is the limitation, if you need more you then have to pay.

Here's one that gives you 1500 MB and 100 GB traffic per month for free.

http://www.000webhost.com/

Most of those cheap/free servers are PHP/MY-SQL. My site is written in ASP/MS-SQL, so it requires a Microsoft host.

Ouch

Yeah, I noticed the .aspx extension and took a look at your code. I'm in an aspx class now, and apparently MS broke Visual Studio 2013 when it comes to using Entity Framework. The instructor had to find a work-around to get it to work.

The instructor knows VB and aspx classic, he's been having a heck of a time trying to learn and teach C#, Visual Studio and aspx to us.

Thus far, I'm not impressed. The more MS I learn the more I'm leaning toward Open Source. I may give Java a try this summer.

Open source servers and frameworks range from fantastic to terrible. But from what I've seen, their commercial equivalents range from annoying to terrible.

The code you see isn't the code behind. For instance, the code behind just defines a table and a data source for the servers page. The ability to sort by column is built into the data table object, and requires no code on my part. Even the pages that look like static pages are not. The content of the page is stored in SQL and combined with a few borders/graphics that make up the final page.

I am thinking about re-doing it in WIKI markup, then it can sit on any server platform.

Then there are the sites that separate the frontend and backend with javascript and AJAX on the front and who knows what on the backend. It can make the frontend more responsive and cut down on the round trips to the server for information.

Yes, I'm familiar with code-behind and SQL Server. Our class project is to code a quiz app. Admin/User logins, CRUD operations, scoring the answers. Coming from the '90's and HTML2, it's no wonder I have a hard time looking at pages' source to figure things out when so much of it is done with code behind and storing data on a server. It's been interesting, and frustrating at the same time.

I understand the need for "out of the box" controls, (I don't want to code a radio button every time I need one), I even understand the necessity of the .Net libraries. I just wish they were open source rather than dealing with a "black box" and wondering what will happen if I use this method or that.



Do you use an IDE, if so which one(s)? Is there one for WIKI markup?

I wish they would teach how to build a web app from scratch first, then show us the "whizz-bang" framework from the "black box". We'd have a much better understanding of what's going on, and how to "fix" the code when the "whizz-bang" framework messes up.

Does that make sense? Today it seems as if they are pushing students to production programming without knowing the computer science or basic functions behind the programming. They are also strongly pushing us to learn "cloud" based programming. It's no wonder so much software today is broken, even the IDE's are broken.

Back to basics... it may take longer, but you should create a much more stable product.

That's the way I learned. We wrote web pages in Notepad


I use MS Visual Studio. I don't know if there is an IDE for wiki markup. Some wiki's have wysiwyg editing built in though.