A New Hope
About three years ago, a friend and I sat down to redo a website from scratch. The current website is a horrible mess of Javascript, C#, ASP.Net and XML. It works fine, but maintenance was a pain. With the campus evolving, we wanted to make a site that was clean, and maintainable. We also wanted to throw in a couple resume-enhancing buzzwords, or at least AJAX.
We sat down and got cracking. Things were going great until we hit a snag. This snag stumped us, and eventually killed the momentum and enthusiasm.
A year or so later, I and another friend sat down to try the same idea. We hit the same snag, we unable to over come it, and the project had died.
This project has been the bane of my existence for the past three years. It’s haunted me, laughing and mocking me for never being able to complete it, or at least leave a working prototype for others to finish.
Last Thursday, the project was brought up and reopened, and with some discussion and ideas from a professor, the snag was cleared. I’m a little ashamed to say that it was a very simple fix, and was lateral from how I was trying to solve it. However, I’ve never claimed Web Programming to be my forte.
The new version uses the Modal Popup Extender and the Tab Container Extender (though this last one may change, just something I was playing with) controls from Asp.net AJAX with C#.Net and ASP.net in Visual Studio 2008. It feels good to see my redesign come to fruition.
February 7, 2010 at 2:36 pm
It looks very professional. I hope to see it live soon. I still talk about the 360 project today. Keep on working, it is definitely a resume builder.