About the UselessApplications.com project

This web-site started as a personal project ("pet project" if you will) by a Windows/C++ developer learning .NET technology (namely C# and ASP.NET).

The idea was to publish some of the author's other "pet projects" that have been carefully developped and thoroughly tested during the author's short (only 9 years long) carrier as a software engineer.  The whole website has been built from scratch (or almost from scratch - see credits below), including images, layout and underlying code.  Decision to host the web site in a shared environment at GoDaddy.com has introduced a lot of problems and obstacles, that actually played extremely positive role in learning ASP.NET (finding workarounds, "hacking" your way through to achive the desired results). 

Some of the problems that had to be solved were:

• Using URL rewriting (including directory/extensionless URLs) without access to IIS configuration;
• Allowing file downloads with non standard extensions (like XPI), and providing Content-Type;
• Globalization of data-driven web pages;
• Dealing with security restrictions in shared hosting environment;

Feel free to contact me about solutions to the above problems (specifically when hosting at GoDaddy.com).  Although, it may take a while to receive a response, as this project is on a very low priority (around 2 hours a week).

Coming soon...

The web site you see is at version Alpha-2, while the next version is in the works.  Visitors will be able to leave comments/questions/feedback about the applications in the discussion forums, rate applications, submit their own high quality "useless" software applications to be listed at this web site.