I was contacted by a very polite employee from Packt Publishing who asked me if I’d be willing to review one of their brand new ASP.NET books, ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls Essentials. I’m not going to add any referral links for this product as it would be a conflict of interest; the only compensation I [...]
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 [...]
Just a quick post for today, but a valuable one nonetheless. I have mentioned before how I prefer developing Facebook.NET applications using the Iframe method of implementation, namely because I didn’t think it was possible to debug FBML implementations on the localhost.
Cameron, an AjaxNinja reader, found the following comment on Nikhil’s blog, which explains how [...]
I’m going to have a bigger post up this week about my new blog project that I’ve started, but I wanted to describe some bug issues that I’ve found with BlogEngine.NET in the course of running that project.
Yes, I’m using BlogEngine.NET (Community Server didn’t work out for reasons that I will explain later this week; [...]
It’s about time for an update on Facebook Application with ASP.NET, using Nikhil Kothari’s Facebook API wrapper for ASP.NET, Facebook.NET. If you want to read about why I’m using Facebook.NET instead of the Facebook Control Toolkit then click here.
I’ve spent a lot of time developing my Facebook application this weekend and I have a few [...]
My post from the previous week on why .NET is getting its ass kicked in social media precipitated a massive storm of comments and debate.
Some of the issues brought up during that discussion, namely that the licensing costs of .NET-technologies serve as a major barrier to wide-scale adoption of .NET for high tech start ups, [...]
Maybe I’m just not looking hard enough, but does it seem like .NET is getting blown out by PHP, JAVA, and even Ruby in terms of presence in social media outlets?
I started this blog partially to evangelize the .NET platform because I think it’s simply more complete and robust than mere scripting languages like PHP, [...]
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 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 [...]