Online Guestbook Demo App up and running

Question

All:

I put together a simple 'guestbook' app this week and posted a live version for folks to play with.

This app uses a single Container (guestbook) with two Entity 'Kinds' (guest and message). Users can create an account and then post messages for everyone to see. You can also filter the message list by guest's nickname. 

I'm testing out the user account authentication pattern (a custom HTTP Basic using cookies for browsers) and the notion of running queries in a single container over multiple 'Kinds.'  I am also working on a solid list/query caching (and cache _invalidation_) pattern as SSDS does not yet support ETags/caching of lists.

If things go well, I have some other features to add including editing/delete your messages, RSS feeds, and searching.

As usual, I posted the code in SSDS Examples on Codeplex and my GoggleCode space. 

Looking forward to feedback. Hey, you could leave your comments in the Guestbook[grin]!

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Mike Amundsen [http://amundsen.com/blog/]

Answer 1

Nice, can't wait to have a look. I've been toying with the idea of creating a discussion forum that uses SSDS as it's backing store. Hopefully your code will come in useful.

Answer 2

kwez:

discussion would be cool. the challenge would be to map out threads/replies cleanly. i skipped that with this 'guestbook' demo. 

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Mike Amundsen [http://amundsen.com/blog/]