Category Archive for ‘programming’
Multimobile Development
As part of my day job I work with a gentlemen known to many as Matt Baxter-Reynolds. Here’s a link to his blog . Matt’s been an author and developer for quite some time so when he mentioned a new book title I was intrigued. Turns out it was something that I’ve got some experience [...]
Cross device mobile applications in a common language.
At work we’re trying to tackle the horrendous decision of what mobile handset(s) to write our application for and in turn, what languages, frameworks and resources we’ll need to do it. Some of the decisions are driven by business concerns, such as what handsets are being used by customers, what vendors are pushing to sell, [...]
Boron learnings 2 – DisplayTemplates and ASP.NET MVC 2
So I cracked on with some Boron stuff last night, I had about an hour to learn something and implement it. I’d been meaning to have a look at the new MVC 2 Html helpers (specifically the expression based helpers, I’m a fan of removing as much ‘magic string’ stuff as possible) so I thought [...]
Boron learnings 1
As the piccy shows, I’ve started on my trip of learning and started out with setting up my source control and using Git. So I downloaded msysgit to use with my Windows laptop, installed it and initialised a git in my Visual Studio solution directory. git init So now I was ready to add my files [...]
The Boron Project
So I thought I’d spend some time actually implementing things that I’ve been talking about doing for ages. A few of those things are.. ASP.NET MVC 2 JQuery CSS and general web page layout and usability Linq to SQL PostSharp Git To that aim, I started up a solution last night and was trying to [...]
jQuery an ASP:GridView and a spare hour
Predominantly I’m a C# and close tech. man (WCF, WPF etc) but with so much attention being paid to jQuery (so much that Microsoft include it in Visual Studio releases now) I thought it was time for me to have a look. I Downloaded the latest build (at the time that was 1.3.2, since then [...]
Google Wave + XMPP
Colour me impressed. Not very often I watch a vid and all the way through go “woah.. yea I could think of a use for that.. wait… WOAH .. cool!” http://wave.google.com/ I’m probably a bit late to the party in watching that (say.. by a few months) but still…. really looks great. Off the back [...]