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<%@ Page Title="" Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage" MasterPageFile="~/Views/Shared/Site.Master" %>
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<asp:Content runat="server" ID="Title" ContentPlaceHolderID="TitleContent">About</asp:Content>
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<asp:Content runat="server" ID="Main" ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent">
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<h2>About</h2>
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<p>
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<strong>Video Game Quotes</strong> is a little project that I decided to tackle one day. I gave
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myself a week to implement everything and throw it up on the internet. It actually took three
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weeks as I struggled with <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/lucene.net/" class="external">Lucene</a> and my
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obviously poor graphic design skills.
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</p>
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<p>
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The inspiration for the site was that there were a lot of awesome video game quotes, but sadly,
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no central place to go to find/search/read them. That made me sad.
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</p>
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<p>
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The infrastructure is modeled after <a href="http://bash.org/" class="external">bash.org</a>, which is a database
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of IRC quotes. One thing I wanted to make sure of was that it shouldn’t require you to login or
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register. No email addresses, or usernames, or passwords. The site keeps track of who has voted
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for what based on IP address, which admittedly is a quite fragile. But it’s the only way to
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unique-ish-ly identify someone without requiring a login. So, you could totally game the system
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by voting, resetting your router, closing your browser, and voting again. I won’t stop you.
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</p>
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<p>
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The site was written in C♯ using <a href="http://www.asp.net/mvc" class="external">ASP.NET MVC 2</a>,
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<a href="http://unity.codeplex.com/" class="external">Unity</a> and <a href="http://nhforge.org/" class="external">NHibernate</a>.
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It runs on <a href="http://nginx.org/" class="external">nginx</a> using <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/" class="external">Mono</a>
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via FastCGI on Ubuntu. It uses MySQL for the backend and
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<a href="http://incubator.apache.org/lucene.net/" class="external">Lucene.NET</a> for search indexing.
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</p>
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<p>
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If you have any questions, concerns, comments, insults or death threats, don’t hesitate to
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<%= Html.ActionLink("contact me", "Contact", "Home") %> and you will be ignored immediately.
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</p>
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<h3><a name="credits"></a>Credits</h3>
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<p>
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Some of the icons and images used on this site were taken from the
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<a href="http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/" class="external">silk icon set</a> and
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<a href="http://deleket.deviantart.com/art/Gaming-Icons-Pack-42723812" class="external">deleket’s
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gaming icon set</a>.
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</p>
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</asp:Content>
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