Craig Shoemaker

Even if you can't make it to PDC for the convention you deserve a a chance to win some cool prizes!

I created “Ugly Outfitters” to showcase the interaction between Infragistics Drag & Drop, jQuery and Microsoft Ajax Preview 6.

On one of the projects I am working on I needed a way to work get the JSON string generated from some sort of serialization process. If you are working Ajax or MVC controller actions, this work is done for you automatically, but I wanted the string all by itself. After some searching I ran across this article How to: Serialize and Deserialize JSON Data. The article is great, and gave me everything I needed to know, but I thought I would make it a little cleaner and wrap it all up in a class.

For some reason the family of design patterns that exist around the Model View Controller pattern seem to be an elusive band of characters. The first time I  encountered Model View Controller I studied the text hard trying to understand how the Strategy, Observer and Composite patterns worked together to accomplish some goal that – try as I might - remained fuzzy. Somehow I have a sense that I am not alone.

Stephen Walther, Microsoft Product Manager for ASP.NET AJAX, joins the show to discuss the recent advancements in the AJAX toolset found in Preview 6. Listen or download below!

Rick Barraza returns to Pixel8 to discuss magic, storytelling, mind control interfaces and even a little development! According to Rick, true experience design mixes elements you may not automatically attribute to software design. Using these unexpected elements along with the tried-and-true principals of user interface design, usability and information design help you craft polished experiences.

Update: I created a Windows 7 theme pack with all of these backgrounds. You can download it here.

Dave Ward and I recently recorded a video demonstrating Dave’s techniques for quickly working with jQuery on any webpage. Dave does a great job quickly showing you how you can work with tools like jQuerify and SelectorGadget to easily prototype functionality and work with the host of jQuery features.