Site Launch

The pro-bono site that had been dragging on me for months - AdaJenkins.org - finally launched recently. The Ada Jenkins Center is a non-profit community center that provides assistance to lower-income families.

Jen did the design, and I did the ASP.NET code in C#. That was the time killer. It was nice to learn a little bit about ASP.NET and to get some experience with Visual Studio, but even the simplest tasks just took for freakin ever, especially since I was only able to dedicate an hour or two here and there. There is a wealth of ASP.NET information on the Web, but there are so many ways to approach a given problem that it can be tough to find best practices. It can be frustrating when you're implementing software in an unfamiliar language to take hackish approaches, when you know there's a better way; but hey - it all works.  I implemented the site using mostly procedural programming, but if I ever do another .NET site I will use objects.

In addition to a custom admin tool, they will be using Macromedia Contribute to keep the site content up-to-date. For only $150, Contribute is an incredibly powerful tool.