Craig Shoemaker

Every year around this time I turn my attention to what I’ve done over the past year in order to update my MVP profile. While the engine Microsoft provides has many ways to list accomplishments and activities, I’ve always had a difficult time trying to find the right way to list my activities over the year.

This week’s Pixel8 episode continues the series of user experience fundamentals with Dr. Tobias Komischke Director of User Experience at Infragistics. Tobias shares seven user-centered design concepts and the associated “dos” and “don’ts” with each point.

Dave Ward specializes in writing about ASP.NET, jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX. He is a contributing author to ASP.NET Ajax in Action, Second Edition from Manning, Nerd Dinner’s JavaScript secret weapon, listed on the Programming homepage of Alltop and newly inducted ASP Insider.

When I reported for Infragistics booth duty at TechEd 2009 the first person to walk up to me smiled and said, “So... what do you guys have for MVC?” Now I am pleased to announce I can do more than smile back.

My friend Simone Chiaretta is hosting a short poll looking to find out what type of Ajax adoption exists and what client frameworks and tools you use.

Jimmy Bogard, lead developer for the AutoMapper project, joins us today to discuss the inner workings and applications of the object-to-object mapper AutoMapper.

The dawn of user experience is a contestable topic. Some UX thought leaders place the discipline’s origin surrounding the emergence of user centered design in the 1980’s, while others see the the beginning coming even earlier. This week’s guest is Dr. Tobias Komischke Director of User Experience at Infragistics. Dr. Komischke details why he sees UX originating in the context of World War II where interacting with technical systems became a matter of life and death.