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WhatIWantMost Establishing entities

Based on quickly reviewing the user stories I have come up with a short list of entities the system should support: User - which will be subclassed as Member, Guest, and Admin Wishlist WishlistItem Category Manufacturer (probably jumping the gun on…

WhatIWantMost User Stories

To help define some of the functionality I am looking to bake into WhatIWantMost.com I listed out a few user stories. Because the stories can be a little complicated (userA sends email to userB to ask if userC…) I created a couple of personas. None…

WhatIWantMost.com - Introduction, part deux

In my previous post I laid out the plan and goals for my WhatIWantMost.com project. I forgot to mention a couple of things, though. Because I am a great big huge fan of automated builds, continuous integration, CC.NET, … (author goes on and on for…

Creating the WhatIWantMost web site from scratch Introduction

Like many developers, I have a few domain names stashed away for rainy days. WhatIWantMost.com is one of those domains. I registered it a while back after doing some brainstorming with a colleague about building a holiday gift registry application…

Introducing Tucker Mathew Hounshell

Introducing Tucker Mathew Hounshell

Monday November 27th at 3:11PM, Tucker Mathew Hounshell came into the world punching, kicking and screaming. We may need to consider singing lessons soon because the boy’s got pipes. And a boxing career is not out of the question - he’s got a mean…

Joe and I will be presenting Real World CI using CC.NET at CodeMash!

We got the answer we were waiting for today - we will be presenting at CodeMash ! Looks like there is a lot of stuff going on over at the CodeMash site - lots of announcements: Dave Donaldson will be doing an NHibernate presentation. Bill Wagner…

The eternal Mother vs. Father fight for a baby boy name

I think I figured it out - why we have been debating for 8 months and we still haven’t decided on a baby name for our unborn son yet. We actually gave up for about 3 of those months and just recently started talking about it again.  We figured we…

Community Server Mod Aggregate Blog List in Sidebar

Friday I answered a question in the forums on CommunityServer.org about adding an blog list in the sidebar . I had done this before to this site on previous versions of CS.  I had not taken the time to do it yet, so for maybe the first time in my…

Working with the newest drops of ASP.NET AJAX

My experience with ASP.NET AJAX (formerly Atlas) prior to the last 24 hours really only involved downloading and installing the various versions that came out, watching a couple of the videos, and checking out some of the sample projects. I had made…

Continuous Integration Presentation using CC.NET and more tonight

Tonight is the night. Joe Wirtley and I will be giving our presentation, Real World Continuous Integration, at the Dayton .NET Developer’s Group . We did a dry run for the developers at Tellus last Friday and it seemed to go pretty well. We had a…