Jeff Makes Software

It has been a month almost to the day that I declared my independence from The Man. So far, this is how it's going.

You've seen people do it. If you run a forum and try to keep a tight ship, you hate it. People that quote the entire previous post in their own. It makes no sense.

In early 2003, I bought a custom HP laptop online. It has a better mix of what I wanted than the retail versions available at the time. It's a 2 GHz Celeron with a half-gig of RAM, 15” 1400x1050 screen and 60 gig hard drive. It replaced my aging Sony (P3/450) which had a hard time running Visual Studio.

This sure puts things in perspective. It's a damn shame when you look at what your tax dollars in the US go toward.

It irritates me when people get all pissy that something they used on the Web for free gets turned off. See: 3,000 blogs lose their voice.

The new Beastie Boys album was released today, their first in six years. Scary that the kid in front of me buying the CD at Best Buy wasn't even born in the Licensed to Ill days. They're still the best thing in rap today.

I mentioned awhile ago that I was planning to write an ASP.NET MembershipProvider for POP Forums. I finally got around to it the last day or two and finished it, along with a RoleProvider. Dare I say that it was really pretty easy, there are just a lot of methods to implement. What a great feature this will be for people that want to integrate Membership into their existing apps.

In the last version of POP Forums, I stored the users online in an Application variable. Surprisingly enough, the performance wasn't bad, even though I suspected it might be once you had a thousand users or so. I opted to do it that way instead of hitting the database to see when the last “hit” by a user was, because I wasn't that into updating that field on every page request. I know the www.asp.net forums does it that way, and periodically caches.