So, what’s up with the name Cheyenne? Good question.  Well, after a few days I couldn’t find a good name I like so I decided to use my 20 month old daughters middle name. Yes, Daddy has a soft spot and she is it!

This web application will be built using the ASP.NET MVC framework.  I will be using a SQL 2008 Express database and using LINQ to SQL as my data layer.  I will be using the Repository Pattern to provide some layer of abstraction over my data layer just in case I want to easily swap out my data access implementation.  

Here are some screen shots of what the project looks like in Visual Studio 2008:

Here is what the Entities and the Repository classes look like:

I want to see the code!  Ok…I was just getting to that. I uploaded the first installment to my Windows Sky Drive account and you can download it below:

Let me know what you think. There is currently no user interface! Actually, the MVC project don’t currently run at the moment; but the project does compile. I removed all the defaults that the MVC project gave me since I wanted to start out from scratch. Hopefully, by the next installment I will have a basic UI and have some data loaded on the screen.  If you have any suggestions or comments, let me know. Until next time…

Happy Programming!

So, I’ve decided on building a job board application. No, I’m not trying to be the next Monster.com, although that would be nice. I just want to provide something that is simple to use and plays nicely with the social media networks that have gotten so popular over the past few years. Here are a list of features that I have so far:

• ASP.NET MVC Application
• Simple and clean user interface
• Simple interface to search the job board.
• All job postings are public
• Easy authentication ( OpenId, Facebook Connect, Custom )
• Web  2.0 centric  ( AJAX, RSS, IE8 Slices )
• Allow easy sharing job postings with popular social networking sites ( Twitter, Facebook, Digg )
• Allow only registered user’s to respond to job postings in a private manner.
• Allow job posters to respond to job inquiries.
• Provide an easy to use interface for any registered user to post a job
• Job posting can be tagged with certain keywords.
• Provide a mechanism for user’s to provide feedback for the overall site

Ok. Easy enough?  Well, If I’m going to pull this off then I will have to get familiar with many of the social media integration API platforms since this will be the first time using any of them. But; have no fear. There is a lot of resources out there to look at and most of all, I have YOU here to help me.

I’m not sure how long this is going to take. I do have a full-time job and I do have to spend time with my family and like I said, no deadlines! I will try to provide a part one to this series of blog post within a week. Oh, I just broke my rule about no deadlines. Until next time…

Happy Programming!

Happy Programming!