This was just a little Sunday project inspired by the number of strikes we’ve been having and the isitchristmas.com website. Isthereastrike.co.uk lists organisations that have been experiences strikes and then has a simple yes/no page for each one.

As the site is very simple it was also a nice test bed for a few things I’ve been learning about lately. It runs on ASP.NET MVC (it may be the simplest MVC site ever), has an Entity Framework data model keeping track of the strikes and has a Dynamic Data admin section.

There is a small unit test for the project using xUnit and I’m going to try using an IOC container to allow me to test the data filtering. It’s overkill, but a good way to learn.

Perhaps people will even find it useful, but I’m really hoping that all the strikes (particularly Leeds Bin Strike) will be sorted out soon.

Update: The Leeds bin strike was sorted. However the administrative burden of keeping strike information updated proved a bit too much for me. I never realised strikes change so often. So the site's not currently maintained, and probably won't be unless someone fancies taking it on.

Update 2: Isthereastrike.co.uk ran its course and I didn't renew the domain.