I'm See You! is LIVE!!!!!.

Code named project ISU in my other posts, this is what my wife and I have been working on for the past couple of months and have been talking about for the past 5 years.

The idea is simple,

• sign up
• create an event (dinner, movies) etc
• invite friends
• and go out

The idea came to me way back in 2005 when my wife (then girlfriend) and I were at a dinner and couldn't remember who all was coming to the dinner. I mean we knew who we had invited but just couldn't remember who said they would definately be there and who couldn't make it. So we thought it would be great if there was a website that was very simple and easy to use, that you could set the place and time and invite a bunch of people, and then track who rsvp'd and who didn't.

Since that day I'm See You! has been through 3 iterations, including this LIVE version. The first two written in ASP.NET and this last one using ASP.NET MVC.

My wife and I are extremely excited about it and hope that you guys will find real value in using it and please, give us your feedback as we really want this thing to work.

 

Thanks

Miguel

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So I've just finished Locke & Key:Welcome to Lovecraft, like literally 5 mins ago. What a cool novel. I purchased this trade paperback last weekend and started the first chapter and had to stop myself from reading it as I wanted it to last a while. That's the thing with novels, you tend to finish one in a mere 30 minutes (or an hour if you really analyze the art). So today I decided to read a little more of it, only this time I couldn't get away and ended up finishing the novel.

I know, I know, no will power, but can you blame me? Todays weather was so miserable and cold, and what better medicine than an excellent novel and a hot cup of coffee? So what's it about? Well, I think it's classified as a horror novel and it reads brilliantly. The experience actually leaves you thinking you had just watched a movie, no really. You can really picture the characters on the big screen and almost hear some eary music in the background :).

The story is about a family, the Locke family, Rendell and Nina are husband and wife, and parents of three kids, Tyler, Kinsey and Bode. Tyler being a teenage body, Kindey being a teenage girl and Bode being the youngest son, about 6 years old or so. It starts off with Rendell, the husband and father, being brutally murdered by a physicotic teenage boy called Sam. The scenes are brutal and extremely vivid in colour, with the story flowing like that seen on a horror/suspense movie. Shortly after the murder the family moves to a place called Lovecraft. An eery mansion which seems to be on a little island nearby some town.

 

This is where the story starts being unravelled with Bode finding a special door in the house which, upon stepping through it, turns you into a ghost and leaves your body lying lifeless and empty on the floor. As a ghost you can fly around, go through walls and most interestingly 'teleport' to places based on thoughts and memories. Bode does some exploring in his ghostly state and goes back into his body when he's had enough. Obviously his older brother, Ty, doesn't believe him etc. Bode, feeling frustrated then begins exploring the outer parts of the mansion and finds a small house/shed built around a well.

Inside this well there appears to be a woman who is trapped at the bottom. Bode calls his older brother and naturally, upon arrival, the trapped woman is nowhere to be seen. Bode then returns to this well alone and begins a 'friendship' with this woman. 

The story starts unravelling and starts intriguing you as you find a link between the killer, Sam, and this woman in the well and you are always kept at the edge of your seat, reading faster and faster to try figure out what its all about.

I'm not going to tell you the rest as it really is brilliant, a bit too short as all novels are, but really really cool.

Now I'm waiting to find the next part Locke & Key: Head Games.

Cheers

Miguel

 

 

So today I wanted to have an image that redirected the user to one of my actions on a controller upon clicking it. Just like an 'a' tag wrapped around an image.
Up until now I've been merely using links, or more specifically the Html.ActionLink method to generate my links.

After a quick search I found this method which is very straight forward:

The Url.Action() view helper method. This method generates a 'raw' url given the appropriate parameters.

Syntax (for one of its 8 overloaded methods):

Url.Action(string actionName, string controllerName);

Usage:

<a href='<%= Url.Action("Index","Home") %>'> <img src="image source here" /></a>

So using it to generate the raw url, pumping this url into an 'a' tag then wrapping the 'a' tag around an image achieved my goal.

This post is more for me than anything as I keep forgetting this and it is quicker for me to 'Google' it than remember it :)

The method that you want is 'indexOf()', obviously. But it's case sensitive and its result is zero based, meaning that if it finds your letter/word within the string you are searching, 0 indicates that your letter/word was found at the very first position in your search string.

This method returns a -1 if the string you are looking for is not found.

Example:

NB: The method is case sensitive so it's wise to convert your strings to lower case to ensure you find what you are looking for.