SaneOrInsane.com Blog
3rd January 2009
I've added a system that allows users to subscribe to insanities so
that they get an Email alert when a new comment is added. I hope that
this will allow people to engage more readily in a conversation about
the insanity.
There's a table in your account page
that shows all your subscriptions so you can delete them easily (if you
want to.)
You also need to be aware that you'll automatically be subscribed to
any new insanities that you enter so you can easily see what people are
saying about it.
Give it a try and let me know what happens.
24th July 2008
I've just added a sitemap to the site to help the search engines. Here's the SaneOrInsane sitemap.
Also, I've added an RSS feed for the insanities. Subscribe to it for all the lastest insanities!
1st May 2008 - New Project
If you want, you can take a look at my new project. It's called
The Linx and it's a global web directory.
10th February 2008
I just took a moment to add the big list page to help Google and others index the insanities easier.
19th January 2008
I finally got around to fixing the 'Next' and 'Previous' links on the
insanity page such that it skips insanities I've had to delete.
Today's little update was accompanied by the beautiful and talented
Delta Goodrem on the wireless.
25th November 2007
I've added a statistics page that shows an
insanity index by country. You can the drill-down into each country and
see the insanities from that country. I've also added country flags to
the users such that you can see where they are from and link through to
the country page.
9th September 2007
I've been working on a Facebook version of SaneOrInsane.com and it's coming along OK.
I doubt you'll be able to see this yet but it'll be
here. Facebook put
some challenging limits on how their data can be sorted in external
applications but I reckon I can get it working such that users on both
the native version and the Facebook version can share insanities. I've
been using this
excellent toolkit to help with the .NET Facebook implementation. It
takes much of the effort out of the problem.
Watch this space, a couple more days should have the FB version
working. Drop me a line if
you fancy trying it out as beta tester.
Oh, and I finally fixed
a bug that caused a big/scary error when posting an insanity comment
straight after rating it.
Musical accompaniment today has been provided
by a random selection of 4/5-star tracks from my collection. It's not
often you hear
Sarah Mclachlan played next to
LL Cool J!
31st August 2007
It's been quite a big week for
SaneOrInsane.com, the site went live on Monday afternoon with a few
of my friends signing-up and posting their own insanities (thanks guys),
I also added some Google adverts, a nice
Google search system for the site, a link to the excellent
Bestuff.com that allow you to
vote for
SaneOrInsane.com (check-out my
profile to see my
favourite things) and a tool from
AddThis.com that allow you to bookmark pages here on your favourite
social networking sites.
Also, I need to thank Chris at
CCG for giving me a voucher to
kick-start my Google Adwords advertising campaign. Have a look a Chris'
OnlineGolfStats.co.uk
web site if you're a golf enthusiast or his
iStuff site if you
want to see what's been catching Chris' eye on the web recently.
Today saw the first sign-up of a person I don't know. Hopefully
Joy will post loads of insanities and enjoy
rating those already here. Welcome on-board Joy!
Development Day 5 - 27th August 2007
I had a play this morning setting-up SaneOrInsane.com as a
Facebook application. I did a
little test implementation and it looks relatively simple. There's some
more stuff I need to do with the regular site, including getting it out
to my friends to try before I'll push on with the Facebook
implementation.
I'm quite pleased with the AJAX rating control. It looks like a full
AJAX control but it's actually driven server-side using partial page
updates. Clever stuff.
Development Day 3&4 - 25-26th August 2007
The site's progressing nicely. I now have a working comments system,
an insanity index calculation for both individual insanities and for
users, a page for each insanity (where comments can be posted) and I've
used URLRewriter.NET to give me
lovely 'search engine friendly' URLs for user profiles and insanities.
Today I'll be pushing on with AJAX and web services things such as
'inappropriate' notifications, 'me too' and (maybe) actually rating
insanities.
Musical accompaniment is being provided by local singer/songwriter,
Caroline 7, the wonderful
Nerina Pallot and whatever
takes me fancy later.
Development Day 2 - 18th August 2007 12:00hrs
Yesterday's development went OK thanks to the musical accompaniment
of the beautiful and talented
Amy MacDonald and The
Chemical Brothers. The site now has a basic layout (although I'm
still struggling with CSS), all the sign up stuff works and I've started
the beginning part of the database implementation.
Today I'll be continuing with the database work using standard
ASP.NET data components to show the results. Hopefully we'll end-up
today with a site that 'works.' :-)
Oh, and if there's time, I'll be practising my
salmon dance.
Development Day 1 - 18th August 2007 10:10hrs
Introduction
Hi There, my name is Jason. This is the first day of developing my new project, SaneOrInsane.com.
The idea came about after chatting to my friends about their strange little
quirks and obsessive compulsive disorders. Everyone has them and most
are quite fun. I thought I'd create a site to bring them together and
allow viewers to rate their insanity and comment on them.
This it the first day of development. I hope to implement things like sign-up and the database today. I'll also
do a prototype layout and hopefully arrive at a nice looking site. For
those interested, I'm using all the Microsoft tools, Visual Studio,
ASP.NET, Microsoft AJAX, SQL Server 2005 and Expression Web. I'm new to
some of these things but I'll give them a try and hopefully they'll work
out OK.
