New CircularSoft Website
Since going full-time with CircularSoft earlier this spring, I have wanted to revamp the company website to look more modern as well as better reflect what the company does (www.circularsoft.net). The original site was...
Building an Online Chat Application – ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, and AJAX
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...
Logos 4 Mac
One of the great bonuses of attending the BibleTech 2010 conference in San Fransisco last March was being able to talk to and get to know many of the developers behind the Logos software. Logos creates one of the most...
IndyNDA Wrap-up for August 2010 – OData
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...
Quick Website Prototyping
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...
IndyNDA Wrap-up for July 2010
This month’s IndyNDA meeting we heard from from Alan Stevens (@AlanStevens http://netcave.org) on “Does Your Code Tell a Story?”. His compared the analogy of writing novels to writing software. With great quotes on the subject,...
Kindle 2 DX (My Review)
After using the Kindle 2 DX for a few months now, I thought I would give my thoughts on it. So far I love the small form factor (definitely thinner and lighter than a 3-inch software development textbook.) The Kindle has two...
IndyNDA Wrap-up: MongoDB presented by Dennis Burton
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...
BibleTech 2010 Wrap-up
Well BibleTech 2010 is over. Great time here in San Jose, CA. I was able to connect and meet people that I would have NEVER have the opportunity otherwise. I was happy with my talk introducing Holy Lamp. For the last couple of...
Developers – Take a Step Towards Designers
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...