Contents tagged with Design and Usability
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MyXaml
Just came across this nice open source tool called MyXaml (dev blog), which offers declarative markup (XUL-like) capabilities to .NET 1.1 and 2.0, and ASP.NET applications. The website includes the product download (open source), documentation and articles on XAML.
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Redesigning Microsoft.com - with CSS, without tables
Redesigning Microsoft.com - with CSS, without tables. A 62% file size reduction anticipated! "If multiplied out by my measly 1 million page views estimate, that 25 KB savings comes to about 23.8 GB in bandwidth savings per day, or 8.5 terabytes per year." Go for it MS!
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Signal-to-Noise #6
- Sample chapters (Part 1 and Part 2) from O'Reilly's ADO.NET Cookbook
- Ted Neward shares his thoughts on the talk Joel Spolsky gave on "Designing Applications With The User in Mind" at UCDavis
- Microsoft Interview Questions by Chris Sells. [via Jason Salas]
- New article at TSS: Managing .NET Development with NAnt
- Windows Future Storage services (aka WinFS, as part of Longhorn): Microsoft's Data Management Vision
- Eric Sink writes on Getting Started with Your Own Software Company
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Signal-to-Noise #2
The Republic Day (Mon, 26th Jan) is near while the odd rains in and around New Delhi will hopefully not confine people indoors during this long weekend. To me, the most amazing sight in the city this time of the year is the evening view of the Rashtrapati Bhavan (Presidents House) which is all lit up and looks magnificent (see photo). -
Tabbing in a TextArea/TextBox
Tabbing in a TextArea or a TextBox has been a distant feature to think of up until now, as Justin Lovell shares a simple JavaScript (IE 5+ only) which makes it possible to insert a tab via the keyboard into a TextArea or a TextBox. Here's the article and code ...
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Modal WebForms
Brendan Tompkins shares his approach (called Sticky Draggable Divs or SDDs) on creating Modal WebForms in ASP.NET. Although I personally don't like the idea of using excessive JavaScript and DHTML in project implementations except for some basic validation routines, but Brendan's concept reminded me of another neat idea, a client-side database modeler (e-store example) by davdstudio, which incorporates DHTML/JavaScript to produce similar draggable popup windows. Client-side GUI development sure is eye-candy but also comes with its baggage of browser incompatibility and usage inconsistency. WebOS should be a great start ...
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Craftsmanship
Joel Spolsky has a very interesting new article on (Software) Craftsmanship where he rightly points-out -- “Writing code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship (though it can be), it's design.”
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Web Server Usage Survey and Comparator
Port80 Surveys the Top 1000 Corporations' Web Servers versus Netcraft Web Server Survey. So who's winning?
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Software QA/Testing and UltraGird for Avalon
Rob Davis has put together an extensive and very insightful Glossary and Technical FAQs section on Software QA/Testing. [via Siva Rama Krishna]
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PDC Content and Multi-direction Treeview Control
FYI, the entire audio/visual content from PDC 2003 is available online (via Microsoft).