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Comment on Cake is Unable to Connect to Database on Snow Leopard – MySQL by Justin Kohnen

Justin Kohnen — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:10:16 +0000

The Cake is a Lie!

Comment on Moving to JSON with Client Side Templating for Views by Steve Gentile

Steve Gentile — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:38:31 +0000

Great to hear, I look forward to getting my hands on that ! Thanks for the update

Comment on Moving to JSON with Client Side Templating for Views by Stephen McKamey

Stephen McKamey — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:11:20 +0000

Sorry I never got any notification of this reply. You can reach me via my first name (at) my last name (dot) com.

BTW, JsonFx-UI v2 is in development with hopefully an initial release at the end of this month.

In v2, JBSTs become first class players on the server side as well. Now JsonFx-UI is a full MVC View Engine with dual-side templates (JBSTs running on server and in the client).

Comment on WebHost4Life by Martin Hoegh-Guldberg

Martin Hoegh-Guldberg — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:37:07 +0000

We have (which is about to be ‘had’) a wide range of global client websites on VPS services at Webhost4life. They were an OK, cheap alternative to hosting in Australia. That was until they were purchased and migrated to some “new beta platform”.

Since then, they have gone from OK to absolutely terrible (and I’m being polite here). We were given 4 hours notice of the migration of some 8 global sites (that included two for a major global beer brand and two for a major global mobile phone company – so not trivial players) and despite desperate and repeated pleas by our CTO not to proceed until we had domains sorted, etc, they ploughed ahead with the migration.

The result was all sites being taken off line. We then went through the process of creating support tickets (we also called them and tried to get through to ‘management’ but were repeatedly told that no one could help…) and working through our global client’s IT departments to get DNS changes, et al. WH4L was no help and we still – some 2 weeks later – still have some sites down because they cannot seem to get ASP.NET working on their servers.

My only advice is stay away from these guys – they are the worst of the worst. There are plenty of great global hosts out there and I’m just sorry we stayed as long as we did. And the biggest insult – they have increased their prices… wow!!

Comment on WebHost4Life by Steve Gentile

Steve Gentile — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:36:17 +0000

Long time in responding David (I had so much spam that I didn’t see the few non-spam comments – doh!).

But basically I was able to get to mysql and export data. I really screwed up though by not using the WordPress export feature.

So the end result was that any post I have that used images is gone – I lost those – and the character set – I messed that up so my old blog posts have the wierd characters.

That said, at least I salvaged the core posts. Which I’m glad because some of those I go back and reference myself when I’m thinking ‘I did this before let me go check my blog’ – lol

Comment on WebHost4Life by Kemper

Kemper — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:35:29 +0000

Well I guess it’s time for me to vent. I see most responses here come from very recent dates.
Mine is very recent last 2 weeks. I cant believe how this company webhost4life can exist. I too went through the “we are migrating your sites” with a nightmare there after. I was dumbfounded to see they hadn’t even moved all my files form the original structure. Which made me really mad. I had to go back in and rebuild all the content that was missing. This of course was after the many days of it will take us 24-48 hours bull%$^ to resolve the fact the sites would not even come up.
I do not wish this company webhost4life on my worst enemy if I had one. I was happy to see that this thread came up on a google search for their name webhost4life on the first page. I hope others read this and make a better decision as to where to host there sites.

Comment on ASP.NET MVC and Silverlight by alphapalima

alphapalima — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:14:40 +0000

Yes, I have implemented something very similiar. The problem I am having is, when you try to save data back to the controller, the controller will not recognize the data unless the object it is decorated with ModelBinder or ActionFilterAttribute. Because these are found in the System.Web.Mvc libraries, I can’t use them in my Silverlight project. So I am left having to maintain two class files. One for Silverlight and one for the MVC web project. Have you found a solution for this?

Comment on Knockout – quick asp.net mvc sample by Michael

Michael — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:18:08 +0000

Very interesting — thank you for the MVC project addition to Steve’s stuff on KnockOut.

Comment on ASP.NET MVC with jTemplates – Part I by Michael

Michael — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:24:23 +0000

Thanks for article.

This works, but because you put the template in script, you can’t do things like register an event handler for row selection (for example). The event doesn’t get bubbled up to script.

Comment on IE 8 – Emulate IE 7 by Gate Latch

Gate Latch — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:07:33 +0000

IE8 has some bugs too although it is more stable than IE7 and IE6,:-