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Kill Your Users Table

It's time to rethink how we store user information. You don't need as much as you think you do. Consider... Reddit's database was stolen a little over a year ago (yes, I know, old news. There's a point here). This, from the team blog (emphasis mine). ...a backup of a portion of the reddit database was...

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07
03
MVC Storefront Part 16: Membership Redo With OpenID

I take a sledge-hammer (this is Ayende's fault) to my current Membership system and split it out into three separate services/parts. I then sit with Jon Galloway and talk about OpenID - and then I implement it.

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06
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MVC Storefront, Part 15: Code Review With Ayende

Normally I would have gone through this many times already, however I have the good fortune of all your comments :). Even so, it's always a good idea to take a timeout and make sure you're not going off the deep end. In this episode I do a code review with Ayende and Steve Harman and have a really nice AHA! moment.

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06
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ASP.NET MVC: List Helper Extension Method

When I created the prototype of the MVC Toolkit (the HTML Helpers), there was a method in there that I was particularly fond of: ToFormattedList(). This Extension method would take an IEnumerable (or IEnumerable<T>) and create a simple formatted list out of it. It's since been replaced, but I liked it so much I thought I'd do a quick post about it.

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06
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MVC Storefront: What's Next With Episode 15

The application is growing and I'm piling in the little changes here and there that turn a prototype into a living, breathing application. I've recorded all of it - but now it's time to take a good long look at what I've done so far and see if it has legs. Specifically: it's time for a Peer Review/Refactor session.

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Hi! My name is Rob Conery and I work at Microsoft on the ASP.NET team. I am the Creator of SubSonic and was the Chief Architect of the Commerce Starter Kit (a free, Open Source eCommerce platform for .NET)

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