Dealing with cross-browser issues
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 26th Nov, 2007
It can be pretty frustrating to design a website that’s perfect in your client’s eyes only to find that it doesn’t work in a different browser to the one you developed it in. That’s why it makes sense to test as early as you can in as many different browsers a possible. And making your [...]
Learn .Net v3.0
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 14th Feb, 2007
If you haven’t had a chance to dable with .Net 3.0 here’s your chance. The .Net 3.0 Framework training kit for WF, WCF and CardSpace provides all you need to get started. It’s a set of hands-on labs, demos and presentations designed and used for several 4-day courses. Worth a look if you want to [...]
“I intentionally misspelled my last name in the Name field and it was not caught! “
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 28th Apr, 2006
Excellent post in The Daily WTF sent to me by John this morning. Worth a read especially if you work in the software development field … The Bug is in the Details - The Daily WTF
Excellent WPF demo
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 4th Apr, 2006
Great WPF demo posted on Channel9 this morning. Starting from scratch, Fil talks through some basic XAML, then switches to Visual Studio and Expression to build a photo and video viewer for his vacation demo.
Check it out: Mix06 Thailand Demo
WFPad - WWF editor
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 11th Oct, 2005
Mark Schmidt has put together a tool to allow you to quickly write/edit WWF XAML and switch from using the workflow designer to typing in raw XAML at the click of a button. If you’re WWFing, check it out here
IT advice for CEOs
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 23rd Mar, 2005
Come across a tongue-in-cheek series on Tom Evslin’s blog entitlted “Managing Programming for CEOs”. They’re mostly old jokes, but amusing anyway and there’s some gems of truth in there. Here goes:
Managing Programming for CEOs Part I - Decompiling Programmer-Speak
Managing Programming for CEOs Part II - Done is a four letter word
Managing Programming [...]
.Net Quiz
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 2nd Mar, 2005
Think you know .Net? How many of these can you answer?
The principles of SOA
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 4th Jan, 2005
I came across an interesting article today, that defines what it calls “The principles of SOA” rather elegantly:
The business drives the services, and the services drive the technology.
Business agility is a fundamental business requirement.
A successful SOA is always in flux.
Read more about it here
I love the first one. I think I might [...]
Prefer VB.net over C# ?
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 18th Jul, 2004
Came across a list of thing that are easier to do in VB than C#.net here. I’ve been focusing on C# recently so don’t have much exposure to VB.Net, so it’s interesting to get some ideas of how the two languages compare in some respects.
Extreme Programming Whitepapers
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 15th Aug, 2003
Was looking around the Net today and came across some Extreme Programming whitepapers on the website of eXosftware who claim to be experts in the field. They do make some interesting reading, especially if you’re trying to come up to speed on Agile Programming Methodologies.
Enjoy!
