For this month’s IndyNDA ASP.NET SIG, I showcased an example web app that shows off the AJAX power of jQuery and the AJAX-response goodness built into ASP.NET MVC. The basic premise is that we want to have a website that has a live chat on the homepage. Users can log in and then post new [...]
This month at IndyNDA we heard from Dan Rigsby (@DanRigsby) regarding OData. OData is a web protocol that allows for the querying of data as a service. OData is built upon REST principle of web services. REST is a move away from the complicated SOAP protocols that were popular in the 1990’s. Unfortunately SOAP is [...]
At this last IndyNDA’s ASP.NET special interest group, we discussed a way to quickly prototype a website. This is one step past creating a quick sketch of a website on paper. This will let you layout and give basic style to a website design. We will utilize openly available web tools to help us. I assume you have some basic web design skills with both HTML and CSS.
At IndyNDA last night we heard Dennis Burton speak on MongoDB. Personally, I have never dived into any other data store other than relational databases (i.e. SQL Server, MySQL…) Dennis did a great job laying out the pluses and minuses of using a document-oriented databases. Document-oriented databases are a viable solution for web applications that [...]
As web developers we love to create awesome applications (if only awesome in our own minds or two a few people.) We live in a world of code and data. But we often miss an increasingly important aspect of the design of a website or web application.
To grow as better developers we need to take a step towards a design brothers/sisters so as to better understand their world. Just as we live in a world of code, they live in a world of color. But we do not have to live in the dark or think we are mutually exclusive. Below are a couple of suggestions on getting started understanding the design-side of web development.
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