Common Closure, Not RSI! Common Closure, Not RSI! Some time last year I started getting really annoyed. Every time I picked up a new app, I had to open at least three rather busy folders to grok what was going on. Maybe you’ve heard of them: Models, Views and Controllers Yeah, I get it, it’s [...]
Those who know have coded with me have felt the soul crushing comments whenever they touch a mouse. It. Must. Die. For coders at least. Visual Studio hasn’t always made that easy. Visual Studio 2012 is here to help with the new Quick Launch feature. (VsVim will help too, but in due time). Quick Launch [...]
This past week, I had the opportunity to attend the Midwest UX conference in Columbus, Ohio. I was incredibly happy to see AIS sponsor the event. While we work hand-in-hand with some great design teams for projects like the Vogue Archive and Rolling Stone Archive, getting directly involved in the UX/UI community is part of [...]
There are about 3 dozen ways to automate web app deployment. All have their candy and their evil. MSDeploy is one of the more intense tools, but if you don’t collapse at the command line syntax you’ll find it can be pretty sweet. It’s rather easy to create a basic package, but step beyond the [...]
There was a minor discussion about enums, constants and branching on a project discussion forum recently. Alternative options suggested included polymorphism, delegate hashes and factories. One of the responses suggested these were beyond “the average programmer”. That’s crazy talk that leads straight to the ivory-tower. We just need to expose people to the alternatives [...]