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<%@ Page Title="" Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage" MasterPageFile="~/Views/Shared/Site.Master" %>
<asp:Content runat="server" ID="Title" ContentPlaceHolderID="TitleContent">About</asp:Content>
<asp:Content runat="server" ID="Main" ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent">
<h2>About</h2>
<div class="inset">
<h3>Genesis</h3>
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<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.
</p>
<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/">bash.org</a>, which is a database
of IRC quotes. One thing I wanted to make sure of was that it shouldn'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'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&#39;t stop you.
</p>
</div>
<h3>Technical Details</h3>
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<p>
The site was written in C&#9839; using <a href="http://www.asp.net/mvc">ASP.NET MVC 2</a>,
<a href="http://unity.codeplex.com/">Unity</a> and <a href="http://nhforge.org/">NHibernate</a>.
It runs on <a href="http://nginx.org/">nginx</a> using <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/">Mono</a>
via FastCGI on Ubuntu. It uses MySQL for the backend.
</p>
</div>
<h3>Get in Touch</h3>
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<p>
If you have any questions, concerns, comments, insults or death threats, don&#39;t hesitate to
<%= Html.ActionLink("contact me", "Contact", "Home") %>.
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</div>
</div>
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