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Good User Interface Design Patterns - "Don't Make Me Think!"

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:01:17 GMT

"Don't Make Me Think!" is a book by Steven Krug that deals with web usability and user interface design patterns. This book touches on user patterns, designing for scanning, navigation design, web page layout, and usability testing.

Book Review: Microsoft Entity Framework in Action

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:20:15 GMT

I highly recommend this book. No further knowledge about Entity Framework is required. So you don't have to know anything about EF1 in order to read and gain benefit of this book. Great effort spent on this book by the authors and the publisher. You'll get a great value with reasonable amount of money compared to the information provided in this book.

A quick review of different UI frameworks

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:21:50 GMT

This post reviews several frameworks used for creating graphical user interfaces. I've decided to create such a review after noticing many programmers take a specific GUI framework for granted, as it is their automatic-choice-by-tool (i.e., they use what they're IDE let them, barely understanding the layers required to develop such a framework, and that there are alternatives they might have chosen if they had knew about).

colaab - View large images online instantly with DeepZoom integration

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:47:01 GMT

This video shows how the online collaboration tool colaab lets you load, view and share extremely large images image (up to 150mb), with minimal waiting time and no loss of quality or resolution. This is one of the most advanced utilisations of Microsoft Silverlight's DeepZoom technology on the web today.

Review and Summary of Greg Young's presentation

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:02:04 GMT

Greg had a presentation here in Montreal for the user group ".NET Montreal Community". I didn't know Greg before his presentation. He was talking about "Everything you wanted to know about architecture but were afraid to ask". I must say that this presentation was really revealing to some point. Greg really made a point that customers are the architect's priority and that the job of the architect is to bring IT and Business together.

Screencast - SQL Examiner Suite 2008

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:18:13 GMT

SQL Examiner Suite consists of a couple of tools, SQL Examiner and SQL Data Examiner, that allow the user to compare and synchronize database schemas and data. This is a brief screencast introducing those tools.

Matt'sFeedback on ASP.NET AJAX Roadmap

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:16:02 GMT

Matt Berseth sharing his ideas and feedback about ASP.NET AJAX Future.

The Future of ASP.NET AJAX

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:46:16 GMT

My analysis of the ASP.NET Team's tentative road map for ASP.NET AJAX v.Next and beyond, followed by a few additional recommendations.

NDepend: code metrics at your service

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:31:08 GMT

If you ever wrote code for a non-trivial project chances are that from time to time you stop an think: "I don't know, but I have the feeling that the code is not really clean/too complex/[insert adjective here that makes you feel bad about your code]". Chances are even that you did not had these thoughts - but your source code indeed was not really clean, too complex or what not. While the latter situation is certainly the worse of the two, both situation make clear that we need means to quantify the quality of our code. NDepend is an excellent tool that can be used to generate those metrics

The Infragistics' user controls library review

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:18:05 GMT

All my late .NET projects had a mandatory, common requirement: the Infragistics NetAdvantage control library. I have been using it since the 6.1 version came out, over one year of development period, on six different .NET projects. Considering this, I believe I have enough experience with this user control library to highlight all the goods and the beds that come out from it.

The seven sins of programmers

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:31:01 GMT

Fixing bugs in the coder, not the code

Book Review - RSS and Atom

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:17:05 GMT

I decided to read this book because syndication formats are becoming more and more important as publishing systems for modern web sites. As the author remarks often (and he's perfectly right) there's a foundamental difference between a syndication (or publication) format like RSS or Atom (the two formats covered in the book) and a content format like HTML.