I got a lot of feedback lately, that Royal TS needs an import functionality. I completely agree, but I soon realized, that almost everyone has different requirements. So thinking through all possibilities and providing a powerful UI which can handle all different requirements would be very time consuming.

So I thought, providing a sample script which shows how this can be done should get you started...

Click here to get to the script.

As most of you already saw, code4ward got a complete new face. Here some facts about the relaunch:

• The new web page runs on the DotNetNuke platform. I never was a huge fan of DotNetNuke and if I could, I would still try to avoid using it. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great platform with a great value and a huge and very professional community attached. I just really don't like dependencies...
• The skin is a professional one, which was bought and customized. I am really happy with the look of the site.
• Some of the graphics were made by a friend of mine who is a very talented designer with fresh and crazy ideas. Thanks Armin! Some other graphics came from iStockPhotos
• The previous site (based on Community Server) was hosted on a machine at my place. My bad experience with my (lately very unstable) ISP forced me to move the site somewhere else. A friend of mine (Netmonic) offered me to host my virtual machine for a very low monthly rate. So in fact, this is quite new: Now I not only have to pay for power and an internet connection, I also must pay for hosting; not much but still.
• The web site is now hosted on a Windows 2008 / IIS 7 machine running SQL Server 2008. Was quite a learning experience.
• The download tracking and statistics code was self written. It's a C# HTTP Module using LINQ. I will soon release the code for that.