Fast Track Software UX Design for Developers
In software development, there are multiple layers that rely on each other to pull together the complete application. From where the data is stored, to the code needed for the application to run, and finally to the actual user...
New CircularSoft Website
Since going full-time with CircularSoft earlier this spring, I have wanted to revamp the company website to look more modern as well as better reflect what the company does (www.circularsoft.net). The original site was...
Building an Online Chat Application – ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, and AJAX
For this month’s IndyNDA ASP.NET SIG, I showcased an example web app that shows off the AJAX power of jQuery and the AJAX-response goodness built into ASP.NET MVC. The basic premise is that we want to have a website that has a...
IndyNDA Wrap-up for August 2010 – OData
This month at IndyNDA we heard from Dan Rigsby (@DanRigsby) regarding OData. OData is a web protocol that allows for the querying of data as a service. OData is built upon REST principle of web services. REST is a move away...
Quick Website Prototyping
At this last IndyNDA’s ASP.NET special interest group, we discussed a way to quickly prototype a website. This is one step past creating a quick sketch of a website on paper. This will let you layout and give basic style to a...
IndyNDA Wrap-up: MongoDB presented by Dennis Burton
At IndyNDA last night we heard Dennis Burton speak on MongoDB. Personally, I have never dived into any other data store other than relational databases (i.e. SQL Server, MySQL…) Dennis did a great job laying out the pluses and...
Developers – Take a Step Towards Designers
As web developers we love to create awesome applications (if only awesome in our own minds or two a few people.) We live in a world of code and data. But we often miss an increasingly important aspect of the design of a website...