You can also read the article that describes how this is implemented.

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Jun 5 2002 ____________________________________________________________               C o v e r Y o u r A S P . c o m                  http://CoverYourASP.com/ ____________________________________________________________ What a month! When it was over I had a total of 6 job offers, and ended up staying at the same company, but working from home. I'm certainly glad that's over! It makes it hard to concentrate on anything when you have no idea what you'll be doing next month. The Open-source project has been slow, but we're finally getting close. Talk about a sharp learning curve! Although SourceForge.net (where the project is hosted) has excellent documentation there is still a lot to learn. Their admin tool is huge and gives us an enormous amount of free funcionality: forums, mailing lists, code repository, bug and enhancement request tracking and a lot more. So far the zips are uploaded, and administrators assigned. I'm still struggling with SSH/CVS to import the code though. Still, once it's all set up there are some awesome new enhancements coming to the site, especially the online database administration. I can't give you any details yet, but you'll have a fully integrated version of my favorite db tool included in CYA soon. It's open-source too! ____________________________________________________________                    T H E   C O N T E S T            http://CoverYourASP.com/Contest.asp ____________________________________________________________ Shukie Lok from London, U.K. won April's contest and a license for iisCART2000[1] and my favorite book from Sams Publishing[2]! [1] http://www.iiscart.com/ [2] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672320681/shawthingcom ______ REMEMBER - the contest is now monthly. The current contest will end on June 30th. The main prize is the brand new CodeCharge Studio worth $499! Check it out: http://www.codecharge.com/?cya ______ For a change this month I picked another excellent ASP.NET book from my bookshelves, with an introduction by Microsoft's Mark Anders: "ASP.NET: Tips, Tricks and Code" Check out the reviews at Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672321432/shawthingcom ______ Prize details at http://CoverYourASP.com/ContestPrizes.asp ____________________________________________________________                     T H E   D I A R Y                The recent events at CoverYourASP             http://CoverYourASP.com/ShowDiary.asp ____________________________________________________________ ______ 2 May ______ - I need your help! As discussed in the latest newsletter, I'm exploring ways to open up CYA to you, the readers. I am making it open-source, and being a Microsoft junkie I haven't had any experience... I'm looking for volunteers to teach me how to take this site open-source, and also for a small trusted band of what I'll call CYA Evangelists to help me run that aspect of the site. If you're a long-time CYA member that has watched the growth of the site over the last 2 years then I want to hear from you! You'll have full administrator access to the site and will help manage the code submitted by others. It's not a privilege I'll give lightly, but there will be rewards given to those who step up to the plate. I'm looking forward to taking the site to the next stage of development - and you, the readers, will benefit too. Already I have had some very cool modifications to the code. If you think you're an Evangelist, or just want to offer advice on open-source, please contact me... ______ 14 May ______ - Just to keep you up to date, I heard that the CYA open source project was approved on SourceForge.Net[1] yesterday, so there is (slow) progress being made. There is a LOT going on over the next few weeks though, so don't hold your breath.. ;-) [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/coveryourasp/ ______ 22 May ______ - The search is over! Read "How I found a job (or four)"[1].. [1] http://coveryourasp.com/Snippet.asp?snip=58 ______ 23 May ______ - UI usability and consistency is very important to me, so I was pleased when Ken Schiff introduced himself yesterday. Ken is also known as The GUIguy and for good reason - he's been improving UI's and training developers for years. If you have an application that needs a little tweaking, check out his site.[1] [1] http://guiguy.com/ ______ 24 May ______ - I'm famous-er! Check out my article[1] that was published in aspnetPRO magazine this month. It looks even better in print! If you haven't seen the magazine yet, you should subscribe. It really is the best ASP.NET magazine I've seen, and you can receive a FREE trial issue[2]. [1] http://www.aspnetpro.com/features/2002/06/asp200206js_f/asp200206js_f.asp [2] http://www.aspnetpro.com/Members/Subscribe/TrialOffer.asp ______ 31 May ______ - I have updated the download of this site[1] in preparation for the move to open-source. The next step is to upload it to the CoverYourASP project[2] at SourceForge.Net. After that I will be setting up the selected project coordinators with admin rights to that project and we can get started! I'm sorry it's taken so long, but May has been the craziest month of my life! After 6 job offers and handing in my resignation the strangest thing happened. My current employer asked me to stay on and work from home (and made it worth my while). So all the pain and suffering over the last few months was almost for nothing! Hopefully now I can return to the CoverYourASP project in a better state of mind... [1] http://coveryourasp.com/CYA.asp [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/coveryourasp/ ______ 1 Jun ______ - Shukie from London, U.K. was the winner of May's contest! We have a special prize for June - CodeCharge Studio[1] is the latest version of the application builder that has huge improvements over the previous version! [1] http://www.codecharge.com/?cya ______ 4 Jun ______ - Behind the scenes things are happening. You just can't see them yet. The CoverYourASP open-source project[1] at SourceForge is about 50% set up now, with a small group of volunteers in place to help with the admin. I'd like to thank Dave Kawliche[2], Aaron Robinson, Larry Bruscatori, Mike Lynch and Shane Bauer for responding so quickly. [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/coveryourasp/ [2] http://1clickdb.com/ [3] http://sourcecode-central.com/    ___________________________________________________________                   T O O L S   I   U S E                      ProposalKit 5.0                   *JUST UPDATED 4/2002*          http://www.proposalkit.com/affdir/1461.htm ____________________________________________________________ If you are a web site designer, and you want to steer clear of the pitfalls out there, come armed with professional looking proposals and "close the deal", then this product is for you. It's guaranteed for 30 days, so that means you don't even have to make a decision. Just download the product and start using these tools in your web design business, and you'll be playing in the big leagues, without the learning curve that's normally associated with setting up a design business. You get $800-worth of free legal documents too, including: US, Canadian and English law web contracts Subcontractor agreement document Web hosting agreement document Short form web development contract CD-ROM/Flash development contract 28 different contracts and agreements ______ On a personal note, I'd like to thank everyone for their support during my job hunt, especially those who went out of their way to offer me a job which I then turned down. Working from home will be "interesting" during the summer with 3 kids under 7. I've come to an arrangement with them that I'll work from 7am to 3pm, then quit and go swimming with them or play with the quad bikes until they go to bed. Then I'll work some more in the evening. Of course, trying to come to an arrangement with my 2 year old boy will be an ongoing process, but I intend to have some fun with the family this summer... Thanks Guys! Speak to you later. Warmest Regards, James Shaw james@CoverYourASP.com 885 Woodstock Road, Suite 430, #108 Roswell, GA 30075-2247, U.S.A. http://CoverYourASP.com/ Download it. Run it. Learn it. http://ASPRSS.com/ Publish ASP with RSS XML http://ShawThing.com/Consult.asp Doing it right the first time ____________________________________________________________                 S U B S C R I P T I O N S           Do you want to subscribe or unsubscribe?             http://CoverYourASP.com/Subscribe.asp ____________________________________________________________