My wife finally cornered me into rebuilding her website. This decision was partially influenced by her trying to find the FrontPage 97 CD so she cound change some content... and enough was enough. Because nobody should be forced to have a website relaint on Frontpage (at least not in the 21st Century).
Since all of my personal projects are used as springboards to learn new stuff, and since we are in the middle of an ORM code-off at work, I figured this would be a great chance to play with both MVC and NHiberate.
I've already decided that NHibernate rocks, just from my work on small proofs of concept, and so far I'm liking MVC. My only problem is finding books, etc. that dig right into it without demos reliant on other technologies (Entity Framework, etc.) but I'll get there,
The first bit was doing the membership provider and I decided to roll my own as an exercise in NHibernate. For anyone working with these, let me recommend this great video:
http://www.asp.net/learn/videos/video-189.aspx
I've finished converting their SQL based code to NHibernate (I'm currently using Fluent NHibernate for this component), and going through and buildiing out all of my unit tests. I was amazed how much code I got to jettison by moving to an ORM.
Once it's all set I'll be tossing the solution and source code out on Codeplex.