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Ask: How to announce my 14 years old web development framework?
Hi guys,
I'm searching a way to announce my 14 years old web development framework for people who are willing to contribute and use.
I created this framework in 2003 and since then I've developed more than 50 big and small sized web applications using this framework. In time surely I also developed and improved the framework. Currently, I released the v7.
If I need to give some info. about versions. I first made the v5 open-source that was the version came from 2004. It was the worst written code. I always had fears that I'll lose control of my codes if I make them open-source. Yea, I know, total ignorance. That's why I made the worst version open-source but in years, lots of things changed in my mind. I released the v6 version that came from 2008 which had better structure and more readable code. All codes where written in VB.NET. Why? no reason. But I know that developers are more willing to work on C# if it will be a .NET language.
That's why I rewrote v7 (VB.NET) version that came from 2010 in C# in last 5 months with the true support of .NET Standard to make the framework completely OS Independent and also I believed I'll find users and contributors easier if make it in C#. There is still some lack of features that are already on v7 (VB.NET) version but not in v7 (C#) version. But they will finish soon.
So, what I want is to announce this framework on somewhere to take attention of developers. It is a really good framework. I'm not telling that because I developed it. I'm telling that because I believe, it will bring something new to the programming world about development, deployment, and the like. I'm not doing this to have some profit.
Can you advise me some places that I can make entry? I think, one is here! :)
Project website is http://www.xeora.org
Project Source is https://github.com/xeora/v7 (I'm still working on Readme files.)
Thanks.
- 27182818284 9y agoYou just did
- pryelluw 9y agoShoot me an email @ pryelluw [at] gmail.com and I'll help you get the word out.
- stevekemp 9y agoWith respect, what can you do for the poster? Why would they need to email privately after posting in a public discussion with plenty of eyeballs?
- pryelluw 9y agoFair question. Reason I don't discuss these things publicly is that I get many emails for digital marketing help and I can't answer them all. I used to own/run a digital media shop and am now focusing on using my skills and experiences to help open source projects grow.
- subie 9y agoI read this as "My 14 year olds" web development framework...which is wrong if anyone else thought that.
- tudelo 9y agosame
- CodeWriter23 9y agoI even read some of the forms of "I" in that first paragraph as "he" and "his".
- jetti 9y agoIf you haven't check out the subreddits /r/dotnet and /r/csharp on Reddit. You can promote it there. Question for you: Any particular reason you split out v6 and v7 into different repos on github? I would suggest using branches to do your dev work and keep master as is as the latest version. If need be, you could branch off and create v6 branches if you want to support old versions. The only reason I mention that is if people are using v7 and then you make a new repo for v8, many of the people who use v7 will never know about v8.
- xeora 9y agothe reason is I just want to isolate them from each other. because v6 is not the successor of v5 and v7 is not a successor of v6. I'm keeping them there just to be accessible for old projects. Actually, I need to use xeora account for v7 completely because v7 have framework, visual studio extensions, xeora cli, separate session service implementations and the like. with this way it is currently located under v7 repository. I'll take care of it more structured soon. And also thank you for your advice. I'll check what can I do on reddit.
- tyingq 9y agoLooks interesting, but the http://www.xeora.org http://www.xeora.org site isn't usable on my Android. The hamburger menu icon just opens a big white square with no text. And videos aren't scaled to fit, so they extend out of the viewport. Normally, I'd ignore minor stuff, but this being a web framework...the issues cause me to lose confidence in how well it works. A bit a copywriter attention on the front page text might help as well. Not trying to be negative, just saying you might want to polish things up a bit before trying to promote it widely.
- xeora 9y agohonestly, it is just a UI design problem, not a framework problem. I need to take care of some css and javascript. I'm postponing it cause I have more prior things to do about the framework. :) but thank you for your feedback. it is nice to have.
- supervillain 9y agoIt’s not a framework problem, it’s a CSS problem.
- tyingq 9y agoSure, but it erodes confidence anyway. You expect the demo pages for a framework to have been thoughtfully designed.
- xeora 9y agodon't worry dude, I've already fixed it.
- dmannorreys 9y agoI'll have to investigate your framework a bit, but I admire the work you've put into it. However, regarding the hamburger menu, it opens only an empty white area on my Android running Chrome.
- hkmurakami 9y ago"Show HN:" after your README file is up and you have a few simple examples I would think.
- jjuliano 9y agoFor all I know, this is better than other frameworks like volt, camping, monkrb and the like. So much better simply because it has a loyal maintainer that does not abandon his work and actively maintains it for a very long time, he said that it has the worst code ever, but that doesn’t stop him for it’s continued support. I’m OK with adapting and building on top of a unpopular framework, as long as it is an active project and actively maintained.
- xeora 9y agoThank you jjuliano, I can assure you it will be an active project as long as I live because I'm continuously developing new applications using my framework and also putting more features to the old ones that are already developed using this framework.
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- geonic 9y agoThere are email credentials in your repository. Change immediately. https://github.com/xeora/v7/blob/master/Framework/src/Xeora.Web.Engine/xeora.settings.json https://github.com/xeora/v7/blob/master/Framework/src/Xeora....
- xeora 9y agooh my god! thank you dude, it was just a wrong commit :)
- romanovcode 9y agoI would not announce it until the most important section is done: http://www.xeora.org/documentation/v7#using_framework http://www.xeora.org/documentation/v7#using_framework
- xeora 9y agoyes sure, I'm just asking the question while I'm preparing for announcing, so I'll have some plans in my mind. Otherwise, it is not ready to yet to be announced.