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Working as a contractor opened my eyes to the developer food chain. Even though I had similar experiences earlier in my career, the challenges seemed much more vivid this time through. I thought I’d share a couple of experiences with you,...
If you’ve built a web application in ASP.NET chances are you’ve also consumed or even created your own web service. Web services are an easy way to share data, and even commit actions across technology lines. I recently ran into an application...
Developers are often cast into a group and stereotyped as "visual design challenged”. The fact is, a true Visual Designer picks colors and creates designs for applications that make my attempts look like grade school arts and crafts project...
Working with WebControls and WebForms for the past 8 years has taught me a lot about web development. The one thing that I learned above everything is that the onus is on the developer to write good code. Now that may not sound like something...
I hear a lot of overused and overloaded terms these days like “leaky abstraction” when talking about WebForms. As people repeat these items like robot drones, I wonder if they truly understand what it means, and more importantly how it affects a...
I’ve never been a big fan of surveys or polls. Not because I don’t like them, but because I always disagree with their validity and the conclusions that are drawn from the results. Lets take a look at a couple of examples. Readers Choice...
It’s a time of change here at Infragistics. We’re way past the half way point on our “Aikido” (Now officially just AJAX) framework, and with the 9.1 release many of the remaining classic Infragistics controls are being re-born as Web 2.0 loving...
One of the most common complaints I hear about the Infragistics tools is “there’s so much ViewState, it’s bloated!”. One of the most common questions I hear is not surprisingly, “How do I reduce the ViewState?”. Before I jump into the answer...
So the other day I was helping out a coworker on a project and was taken aback by the complexity of the project. I was expecting a hacky WinForms app with a single form and one monolithic method. Instead, I saw an organized solution with 6...
When I first started "web development" I knew nothing more than a handful of tags, and that "Javascript is bad!". As my HTML vocabulary grew, I started to see some of the really cool things you could do with DHTML, but most of it required that naughty...
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