Please beat up my website!

Otis has been nice enough to let me ask his forum participants to visit my site at http://www.developerfood.com and see if you can break it!

I’m going live on May 24, but I need your help to insure it’s stable. Do anything. Create accounts, populate listings, leave comments and reviews, try anything to break it. I'm going to dump the data at the end of the test, so nothing you enter will be saved.

developerFood is (will be) a directory of .NET controls, tools, and other resources. We don’t sell stuff, only list it, so we can be objective and list everything, not just the things we sell. We’re out to be the most comprehensive list of .NET controls anywhere.

But does the site work? You tell me! Visit http://www.developerfood.com and go nuts. Email me at beta@developerfood.com with anything you discover, or suggestions to make it better. I can take it, send any thoughts!

Thanks to Otis, for letting me ask, and for making such a great tool. Any bugs found are my fault not his.

Go nuts! http://www.developerfood.com

Scott Wallace beta@developerfood.com

Just clicking around, the rss link for 'Updated Controls' gives an error: http://www.developerfood.com/rss/rss.aspx?mContent=updatedcontrols

Cool site, Scott!

I think the rss is bugged because no data is available yet

Sure enough. I created a control and the RSS error went away. Shouldn't be a problem in the long run, but I'm going to fix it anyway, because I'm just that kind of guy!

I was able to create a new account with all NULL values. The system mentioned it was going to send a verification of my successful account creation to my e-mail address.

Jeff...

Sure enough, my RequiredFieldValidators aren't working because of a defaultbutton control I use from http://www.metabuilders.com/ (great stuff, except for this bug.)

Fixed it in the code, and will post it this evening.

Thanks for the catch.

Otis, perhaps you didn't fill in all fields and that's why you're having trouble with your account...

I'll retry in half an hour

Fixed the Validation issue online.

Otis, you've got your own beta, don't spend much time here.

Interesting. The client-side validations do not work on Opera or FireFox, but do on IE. Looks like I'll switch to server-side...

Hey, it's 20:29 already here, so it's my spare time .

Btw, a 'persistent login' would be nice. You can do that easily with form based security. Yeah always do validation server side. Often companies turn off active scripting or strip out javascript in the firewall...

You're right about the form based security, but my ISP, CrystalTech, just turned off the ability to do that last week. Grrr... I had the code in place and everything. I'm hunting for a new ISP.

You can set teh expiration date of the cookie to next year, it's now set to the end of the session (i.e. null), or is this set by code you can't alter?

I misunderstood. You mean the ability to remember it's you and forgo the login routine. I didn't add that feature, because I'm scared of it . I contracted to the US Air Force for a while, and such things were forbidden for security reasons.

However, it's a good idea here, and I'll add it. We're not flying jet planes here...

swallace wrote:

I misunderstood. You mean the ability to remember it's you and forgo the login routine. I didn't add that feature, because I'm scared of it . I contracted to the US Air Force for a while, and such things were forbidden for security reasons.

However, it's a good idea here, and I'll add it. We're not flying jet planes here...

hehe Ok, I can imagine that. Indeed, here you need it, it's more conveniant.

When I physically change the key in the URL (...aspx?mCategoryid=x to ....aspx?mCategoryid=y) and press Enter, your app generates an ASP.Net generated error message. You may want to harden your code to catch such exceptions.

Jeff

Good catch! I'll fix that. Thanks for giving a look.

Hey, we're semi-live! Thanks to all of Otis' great users for the help in making the site workable and clean, and for this great product. Time saved using LLBLGen: Priceless!

Otis, feel free to close this thread, I don't want it to interfere with your normal stuff. Thanks again for all your help!

I saw an email from Sparky indeed I've forwarded it to Marketing.

I'll leave the thread open till July 1st, perhaps some issues turn up.