Dan Hounshell

Looking at ASP.NET MVC – following my own lead

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:53:00 GMT

Several months ago I posted about one of my newest sites , ASPDotNetMVC.com . One of the main reasons for creating the site was for my own selfish purposes. I had begun digging into ASP.NET MVC and I wanted a site that aggregated all the good ASP.NET...(read more)

Can I get a Mulligan on the case order?

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:07:00 GMT

This is part 4 in a series about building an Eco-Friendly Economical Windows Home Server. Part 1: In search of an Eco-Friendly Economical Home Server Part 2: In search of an Eco-Friendly Economical Home Server 2, Electric Boogaloo Part 3: A Cheap and...(read more)

Ordered parts for Eco-friendly Economical Windows Home Server

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:33:00 GMT

Sample OpenID ASP.NET Web Site

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:31:00 GMT

A couple of months ago I posted how to add OpenID to your existing web site in conjunction with ASP.NET Membership . In the comments a few times I was asked to post the code to the OpenID login user control or to create a sample project to share. Even...(read more)

Save your Kudos for your Annual Review

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:04:06 GMT

Over the last several years I’ve gotten into the habit of saving any “kudos” emails that get sent to me into a folder with the creative name of “Kudos”. I don’t know where I picked up this habit, but from time to time I’ve shared this tip with others...(read more)

The double dog dare gets me every time!

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:17:00 GMT

I wondered when some of these pictures from DevLink would surface. Between the dares and doubts of those who said I couldn't fit into a medium t-shirt - I had to do it. A big "thanks" to Dave Giard for capturing the moment. Check out the...(read more)

My cast-offs may be your treasure

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:08:00 GMT

As a web developer I like building new web sites, web applications, mashups, widgets, etc. Just like most other men I like shiny new toys and sometimes not-so-shiny older toys tend to become less used, become a little rusty and maybe even feel a little...(read more)

Telligent Wants You!

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:55:00 GMT

I joined Telligent nearly two years ago. Over that time we've grown nearly threefold and we're still growing and going strong. Scott W , Rob Howard , Dave Donaldson , the Pentonizer and others have already said it but it bears repeating... We...(read more)

One Thought: Why Regional Conferences + Open Spaces Rock

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:09:00 GMT

I'm still trying to gather my thoughts after attending DevLink this past weekend. One thing that I want to highlight is how great these regional conferences are and how much they are a perfect fit for Open Spaces . [Much props to Alan Stevens for...(read more)

Community Server does "Am I ___ or Not?"

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:05:37 GMT

We're always working on something cool at Telligent, whether it be an entirely new product or some type of addition or extension to Community Server . Some good examples are some of the things we came up with in Hackathon II, including the couple...(read more)

Lan and Deon #3

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:33:00 GMT

Lan and Deon go to their local .NET User Group meeting... Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)

I like VisualSVN

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:39:00 GMT

I'm not a big fan of Source Code Management integration with Visual Studio. I don't know, maybe VSS soured me years ago. When using Vault in the past I installed the Visual Studio integration tools once and uninstalled them a few days later. While...(read more)

Adding OpenID to your web site in conjunction with ASP.NET Membership

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:17:00 GMT

I recently added membership, accounts, login, etc. to the AspDotNetMVC site. While doing so I decided I wanted to support OpenID, too. However, I didn't want to go with only OpenID because I needed ASP.NET Membership in place to work in conjunction...(read more)

How to use Kigg as a service from other sites

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:33:00 GMT

In yesterday's post I started providing some detail about my use of Kigg to add rating functionality to the AspDotNetMVC site . Because I wanted to integrate the ASP.NET Membership store between the two sites into an external database I started by...(read more)

How I got started in Software Development

Digging My Blog - Dan Hounshell — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:34:22 GMT

I've finally gotten around to answering Michael Eaton's question: How did you get started in software development? How old were you when you started programming? How did you get started in programming? I think that the first time that I got the...(read more)