The response to Sueetie has been greater than anything I experienced before. It’s clear that a lot of people get the membership-centric, loosely-coupled .NET Open Source application model of Sueetie.
As for Sueetie.org launch issues, two folks that I know of had trouble registering. One was good enough to email me and the other I learned about from “Sueetie” searching on Twitter. That was my fault. The registration piece was mine and I didn’t handle weak ASPNET passwords of less than 7 characters. I changed the password length to 6 characters and added the validation messages you see at the bottom of this post. Even while “broken” during the first two days, there were a lot of Sueetie site accounts created, which to me further validates the Sueetie model.
I had planned all along to focus on documentation after getting Sueetie.org online, covering the technical points on application, theme, database and membership integration. I also wanted to spend some quality time documenting the individual Open Source applications used in Sueetie. These are full-featured .NET apps with robust capabilities most of us don’t know about.
The First 48 Hour response made it clear that my selfish interests in documenting the great .NET Open Source applications in Sueetie will have to play second fiddle to locking down the initial configuration of Sueetie.org for replication and collaboration. I need to document the procedure I followed, identify and provide the source drop-in files (web.configs, CSS, etc), and create a database setup script so Sueetie sites can be created in minutes by developers around the world, enabling the Sueetie Tribe to get down to business.
My immediate goal is to duplicate what I did to create Sueetie.org by creating a new site from scratch, documenting each step along the way and packaging up a Sueetie Starter Kit to meet our replication and collaboration needs. I hope to have that complete in the next two weeks. There will be plenty of posts and wiki additions in the meantime so you’ll know I’m doing my job.
The new, improved Sueetie registration form is below. Please Tweet if you experience any further problems.
