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	<h2>About</h2>

	<p>
		<strong>Video Game Quotes</strong> is a little project that I decided to tackle one day. I gave
		myself a week to implement everything and throw it up on the internet. It actually took three
		weeks as I struggled with <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/lucene.net/" class="external">Lucene</a> and my
		obviously poor graphic design skills.
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	<p>
		The inspiration for the site was that there were a lot of awesome video game quotes, but sadly,
		no central place to go to find/search/read them. That made me sad.
	</p>

	<p>
		The infrastructure is modeled after <a href="http://bash.org/" class="external">bash.org</a>, which is a database
		of IRC quotes. One thing I wanted to make sure of was that it shouldn&rsquo;t require you to login or
		register. No email addresses, or usernames, or passwords. The site keeps track of who has voted
		for what based on IP address, which admittedly is a quite fragile. But it&rsquo;s the only way to 
		unique-ish-ly identify someone without requiring a login. So, you could totally game the system
		by voting, resetting your router, closing your browser, and voting again. I won&rsquo;t stop you.
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	<p>
		The site was written in C&#9839; using <a href="http://www.asp.net/mvc" class="external">ASP.NET MVC 2</a>, 
		<a href="http://unity.codeplex.com/" class="external">Unity</a> and <a href="http://nhforge.org/" class="external">NHibernate</a>.
		It runs on <a href="http://nginx.org/" class="external">nginx</a> using <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/" class="external">Mono</a>
		via FastCGI on Ubuntu. It uses MySQL for the backend and 
		<a href="http://incubator.apache.org/lucene.net/" class="external">Lucene.NET</a> for search indexing.
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	<p>
		If you have any questions, concerns, comments, insults or death threats, don&rsquo;t hesitate to
		<%= Html.ActionLink("contact me", "Contact", "Home") %> and you will be ignored immediately.
	</p>

	<h3><a name="credits"></a>Credits</h3>
	<p>
		Some of the icons and images used on this site were taken from the
		<a href="http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/" class="external">silk icon set</a> and 
		<a href="http://deleket.deviantart.com/art/Gaming-Icons-Pack-42723812" class="external">deleket&rsquo;s
		gaming icon set</a>.
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