Thoughts about .NET. Thoughts about code.
Posted in Programming on Sep 29th, 2005
AJAX, and more AJAX, that’s what we’ve been hearing about. Some call it the savior of the web application. Some say that it will kick Microsoft butt into oblivion. Web apps will be king, desktops are dead. Long live the king!
So you decide to look into AJAX and find out that it is a combination [...]
Posted in Conference on Sep 21st, 2005
I was at the Portland Oregon Code Camp this summer. What a lot of fun! If you haven’t been to one yet you really should find time to go. You’ll meet a ton of new people and probably will run into someone you know. For example, I got to the Reed College campus early Saturday [...]
Posted in General on Sep 17th, 2005
I really wanted them to get along. Live side-by-side in harmony sharing the same CLR but it wasn’t meant to be I guess.
I downloaded Visual Studio 2005 RC1 this week. I also grabbed the September TCP (Community Technology Preview) build of SQL Server 2005. I wanted to install both on my demo machine but there [...]
Posted in General on Sep 13th, 2005
I like UI design. You wouldn’t know it from reading this blog because I’ve rarely talked about it but it is one of my passions. Good UI design is pleasing to the user, simple and easy to use and most of all intuitive. You can become a better UI designer by researching good patterns, studying [...]