I'm heading out tomorrow night to attend and speak at Software Design & Development which is a yearly conference in London, UK. My talk is on May 14th and is called "Assessing UX" and provides a 360-degree view on what the different dimensions…
What is responsive Web design (RWD)? You don't need me to tell you--there are hundreds if not thousands of articles on the Web, not to mention a few books. I've personally read about twenty some odd articles on it, as well as books/booklets. So far, …
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Last week I had the pleasure of attending the SD Best Practices conference in Boston. I learned a lot and met some good folks. While I was there, I published a series of daily summaries/reports about…
There are a ton of resources out there to help developers (and designers) make better Web sites and applications, but I wanted to draw out three that I think will have a very high ROI for any developer who is building for the Web. You could easily consume…
Far be it from me to put words in Phil's mouth, but I hope that folks recognize that his post about favoring composition over inheritance is not specifically about that one best practice (the comments seem to indicate this is being missed). It's pretty…
Previously, I mentioned I was working on an example of using Visual Studio to create a concrete domain model using object thinking, and here it is. The domain I ended up modeling was that of a shared event calendar, including event registration and agenda…
This year, instead of hosting the World IA day like we did over the last couple of years, we brought our own UX conference UXify that we've been running very successfully in Sofia (Bulgaria) to North America.
UXify was hosted on April 11 at the…
I finally got around to finishing The Timeless Way of Building, by Christopher Alexander (most well known in software for being the source of the patterns movement).  The last part of the book is called "The Way" to build things.  His focus…
When searching recently so as to provide further reading for "domain model" in a recent post, I was quite surprised to find that there seemed to be no good definition readily available (at least not by Googling "domain model"). Since…
I was scheduled to do a talk today called "Building Great UX with .NET" today at the SouthCT .NET UG. Well, mother nature had other plans, and I had to reschedule for 8 April. So I have this wonderful presentation all prepared and nowhere to…
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This year—coming up very soon—Infragistics will be co-hosting devscovery with Wintellect! This is going to be awesome. Not too long ago, I blogged about how Infragistics is an MVP squirrel. We’re bringing those nuts to this conference as well…
As I sit here on my deck, enjoying the cool autumn breeze1, I thought, what better thing to write about than Web services! Well, no, actually I am just recalling some stuff that's happened lately. On the MSDN Architecture forums and in some coding…