Ben Allfree :: Painless Programming

I develop a variety of flavors of iPhone applications, including native, hybrid, HTML/JavaScript, and web site treatments for iPhone.

.NET has the best documentation you are going to find in any platform. It's commercial and presumably a bunch of people were paid actual money to make sure the documentation was correct and complete. For the most part, I find that to be true. In some cases it can't compete with a community-driven doc site like PHP has. Then again, a lot of the user comments for PHP address shortcomings in PHP itself. You don't have that problem with .NET.

I am getting good at setting up the subscription management infrastructure that you need to run a good paid service.

I will be creating custom DotNetNuke modules in ASP.NET 2.0 for a new client. DotNetNuke is the premiere open source portal framework for ASP.NET. Early last year, I wrote a book for O’Reilly on the topic.

Ben has won a contract to develop Paperspine.com, the book renter’s web portal. Paperspine is based on ASP.NET.

Today, proved to be a great chance to prove why great support matters. A production server ceased functioning after a recent upgrade, and in this case, time was money. The server runs the web application platform that many developers choose: IIS and PHP. For "no reason at all" (that's how everything really bad starts), IIS began [...]

A technical article by Benjamin Allfree has been published on the popular website, CodeProject.com. The article discusses advanced software delivery techniques using the Microsoft .NET platform.See the article here.

Today, Ben Allfree announced the release of the Nukelet 2.0 scripting platform for DotNetNuke, along with the much-anticipated ASP.NET scripting plugin.The Nukelet scripting platform now supports ASP.NET, PHP, Classic ASP, VBScript, and Ruby. Python, Java, and other languages are in development.The Nukelet scripting platform allows DotNetNuke developers and site administrators to quickly add custom programming [...]

The Prototype library for JavaScript enables rich client-side programming at a very detailed level. And with an extension library implementing the Observer pattern, event-based programming in JavaScript is about as good as it can be.

BenAllfree.com Announces Tool to Enable Rapid Module Development using PHP Scripting for DotNetNuke BenAllfree.com today announced the release of Nukelet 1.0, the first software component to bring custom PHP scripting to the ASP.NET DotNetNuke framework. Publication Date: February 1, 2006. SANTA BARBARA, CA, February 1, 2006. BenAllfree.com today announced the release of Nukelet 1.0, the first [...]