I just upgraded the forums code.  The new code is awesome.  It allows private messages, better searching abilities, and a lot more.  I am so excited. 

I added a feed from Google News with a search of Plainsboro, NJ.  In other words its an RSS feed using those keywords.  Pretty cool.  Maybe I'll tune the search parameters to make sure it is more relevant...

Well our hosting provider has moved our application over to our own "app pool".  We have not had a memory issue since the change.  Hopefully it will stay this way.  The site is currently running super fast, and stable!

Forum search was broken.  Kept getting an error from MS SQL server.  I traced it down to a bug in a stored procedure.  I fixed the bug after 2 hours of screwing around and now it works pretty great.  Enjoy!

I just added a Windows Live ID authentication option to the login.  It is awesome. If you have Live ID already you can associate it with your login so you can get automatically logged in.  This is great and will make your experience on the site really great.

I started to put together the Renovation Project pages. I have also been tuning the site. I have been getting an error in the error log that concerns me a bit. It is an out of memory exception. I am not sure if it is a bug in the code or if it is a server issue. I am currently trying to resolve that issue. Even though this site is taking a good bit of time and effort to build it will be worth it for everyone. I will hopefully be able to put a decent amount of time into working on the site this weekend so hopefully we will get this thing up early. I would like to get the site launched without the full planned functionality. We can then add the additional content as we go. It is important, IMHO, to at least get the new site out there so people...

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I just populated the renovation project frequently asked questions with the material from the renovation project booklet. I also added a documents sections and started populating that with RCE documents. Chipping away at this slowly but surely...

Ok.  I just added new FAQ page and functionality.  We will need to populate that... there are a lot of Frequently asked questions.  I also added a new Silverlight photo album under the Renovation project.  I forsee that there will be tons of photos in there eventually once the project is under way.

Last night I was making some adjustments to the settings on the website when it went black. I mean dead. That was scary since I have been putting a lot of time into developing this thing and to lose all of that work would really be bad. In any case I did a little bit of SQL surgery on the database, fixed the setting that was the issue, and we are back in business. Over the coming days I will start further developing the content of the site. I hope to have the existing site cutover to the new one before Thanksgiving. I think that goal is attainable right now... gives me 2 months. You won't be able to tell when you read this but the site is just a bare wire frame right now. Talk to you soon. -Justin

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We have had plans to revamp the Ravens Crest website for a while now.  To tell the truth those plans have been put on the back burner to let the Board focus 100% on the proposed renovation project.  Now that the renovation project booklet is out and people are voting I have shifted my attention to revamping this site.  As an experiment I will blog my builds of the site to give some insight on the development process of our website.

First we developed a list of requirements for the site.  The list is substantial and our hopes are high.  We propose to add the following features at a minimum for the 1.0 release.

Secure document management Ravens Crest East Forums Easy to manage site that allows content to always be fresh ...

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