On Friday night I decided to sit down and start work on a new project that I had been mulling over for a couple of days, but this time I was going to build the new service from the top-down, rather than from the bottom-up.
I’d start by building the end user experience first then shape [...]

Software professionals often use diagramming to help explicate their ideas to other technical and non-technical people involved in a project; they’re also often used by the developers themselves to help them inexpensively model their applications on paper before they sit down and spend considerable time developing the actual application.
I’m going to walk through a typical [...]

Starting a new website can be a lot of fun and it can be a great learning experience; however, a lot of people invest a lot of time and sometimes money into ill-conceived websites or blogs. Today I’m going to run through 7 bad reasons to start a website; save your time and money and [...]

I thought I’d follow up my post 10 great resources for learning GDI+ for ASP.NET 2.0 with the latest code I’ve rolled out from the AjaxNinja Laboratory. It’s called Adaptive GDI+ Rendering for Mobile Devices.
Abstract: Web browsers designed for embedded and mobile devices have to conserve memory, network bandwidth, and processing resources given how limited [...]

GDI+ is the graphics engine used in Windows XP and is made available in the .NET framework for developers like us! GDI+ can be used for dynamic 2-dimensional vector graphics and imaging, which may be helpful for ASP.NET developers like us who want to draw graphs dynamically or programmatically add watermarks to existing images on [...]

I was looking through ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution (Programmer to Programmer) at a Borders bookstore last night when I found a complete gem. Over the past couple of weeks I have been wondering if there were any good WYSIWYG Editor controls for ASP.NET, just like the suite I use for [...]

I had a previous project called VandyStudents (along with a sub-project called VandyWiki) which I ran mostly for fun and because at the time I created VandyStudents my alma mater, Vanderbilt University, did not have an online news portal. Shortly after the initial release of VandyStudents, Vanderbilt proposed, funded, and set up a Drupal-based [...]