This website is now open and ready for business. Of course, most websites are works-in-progress, but today I can say that this one is complete enough to launch.

The motivation and goals behind this site are listed over the About page, but I'll provide an excerpt here:

As I was learning about C# and ASP.NET, and the .NET framework in general, I found myself doing an awful lot of Google searches. Most of the time, I was looking for tutorials or code examples. Other times, I was searching the full text of an Exception that I was receiving so I could find out what was causing it and how I could resolve it. 

Thus, I have created this site. I will provide tutorials, code examples, and articles regarding software development. My goal is to provide you with the resource I wish I had when I was learning ASP.NET, as well as allow you to keep up-to-date with the current tricks of the trade.

The first article, Getting Started With ASP.NET: "Hello World" is up and I'd love to get some feedback. I hope to continue this series soon to help developers, like myself a few months ago, get started quickly with ASP.NET.

I've been making tweaks all over the place. I've had to adjust the template I started with to be more appropriate for having just one author writing articles, fix many bugs, and add some new functionality where I saw fit. One interesting thing that I learned as a part of this process is that I am becoming much better at diving in to other peoples' code and understanding it. I am only decently familiar with PHP and I was not using an IDE, but I was still able to make all the changes that I wanted. In the past, I've had to back down from adding some features in similar situations where I couldn't understand the code. Either WordPress and its plugins are particularly well written, or I am becoming slightly more competent. Possibly both.

If anyone is interested in what I did to get this site ready for launch (aside from writing the first article, an ASP.NET tutorial), here is the change log:

• Modified all email services to use SMTP authentication (and created email accounts for them)
• Fixed a bug that prevented users from logging out
• Created RSS links
• Improved the Archives and Sitemap templates
• Created a new Contact form
• Created a new favicon
• Did some image work for the site header and RSS feed
• Added recent comment quotes to my Author Information page
• Added some quicklinks to the bottom of the site
• Some backend optimizations and miscellaneous code cleanup