Monday, June 8, 2009

RSS: .NET Syndication Feeds

Need to perform this task for creating RSS feeds in the near future. Keep this article in mind for the helper classes within the .NET framework.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

.NET Debugging: IL Disassembler

Learned a helpful new debugging and troubleshooting tool today with the .NET Framework IL Disassembler. The simple application shows classes and even method signatures inside a compiled DLL.

This article goes further into understanding the various intermediate language operations as well as advanced switches.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

JQuery: Videos from the AJAX Experience

Videos from Ajaxian to watch when there's extra time. I believe it would be possible to use this to enhance the .NET Ajax quite a bit.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Web Design: Essential Controls

Slide show from Bill Scott from his book Designing Web Interfaces.

Also, an awesome post showing 30 essential controls. Must get better at combining controls from Yahoo, and jQuery into .net framework. There's much better stuff out there.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

CSLA for Silverlight

Just noticed this article by Rockford Lhotka in a blog feed regarding a new brand of CSLA for Silverlight.

Here's the CSLA site description of CSLA Light. Enables the transparent communication of the Silverlight XAML UI with CSLA.Net business objects.

Maybe good for a sample project.

Monday, January 12, 2009

User Interface Advice

Simple but strikingly true advice regarding application design.  If a user cannot find it.  It's not there.

I have often found myself getting lost in the myopic creation of great new functionality, without considering where it fits in the overall design.  Sometimes, without checking if the users of the application even use it?!?