Today I just released a simple github repository for my work: it’s a C# file upload user control, with HTML5 progress bar support. Check it out!
https://github.com/CBCMusic/ajax-file-uploader

I’m very pleased. My co-workers and bosses are all very supportive of open source, so it’s nice to be able to help make a little nudge in that direction. The code itself is really quite basic. When I was tasked with updating out old file uploader script, I was surprised there wasn’t something in C# already written (and free…!) that did this, but perhaps I’ve been living in open source land too long.

I hope it comes in handy for somebody, and I hope this’ll lead to a lot more code being released by CBC Music. I’m going to do my utmost to see that that happens.

I’ve just updated the generatedata.com website to run the latest code. This new version made some pretty substantial changes behind the scenes, including mysqli for database connectivity and proper resource bundling and minification for CSS, JS and the requireJS modules. The resource bundling is a very nice addition: it’ll help speed up page loads (over 200KB less to download, and half the resources!) and it also includes cache-busting md5 filenames to help eliminate problems caused by old files being cached by the browser.

If anyone encounters any problems with the site, please email me at [email protected] and I’ll look into it. Thanks!

– Ben

I’ll be updating the website soon with this upgrade. Here’s the changelog for 3.0.7.

• LDIF Export Type support – thanks, Marco Corona!
• Proper (genuine!) French translation courtesy of Michel Roca.
• Optional JS, CSS minimization and bundling via Grunt. See help documentation for more information:
  http://benkeen.github.io/generatedata/developer.html#bundling
• PHP 5.5 compatibility fixes: database connection now with mysqli; Generator class renamed to DataGenerator due to naming conflict.
• Bug fixes: https://github.com/benkeen/generatedata/issues?milestone=7&page=1&state=closed