Or a better title may be “Sometimes the customer really doesn’t know what he/she wants”. I was looking through some old project files over the weekend, looking for some code examples. I came across an ecommerce project that Chad and I had finished…
For my family members who faithfully read my blog (Hi Mom!) though they have no idea what I’m writing about most of the time I present you with this excellent short description of Community Server by Design MeltDown (via Jon Broom ) along with…
Jeffrey Palermo wrote the below and then challenged the community to use what works and evangelize: … My team did not dabble with converting from NAnt to MSBuild or from NUnit to MSTest. Here is my thought process: Our process works (CruiseControl…
Because of personal and family bouts with the flu I have not done anything new this week on the WhatIWantMost project. I hope to correct that this weekend. In the meantime I have some leftovers from last week that I have not had a chance to talk…
I’m an avid reader of Rick Segal’s blog, The Post Money Value . I’m don’t read any other start-up blogs or VC blogs, but I like Rick’s writing style and point of view. Because of his Microsoft background and VC interest in technology and…
I have been in the web business for about 10 years now. Over that time I have spent a lot of time looking at competitors’ sites. Anytime a site, good or bad, has a link on it to who developed/designed it I will follow. Curious by nature, I usually…
Proper use of AJAX can be good for a web application when it helps reduce clutter by doing away with unnecessary postbacks and allowing the user to avoid the scenic route of visiting several other pages only to return to the page he/she was already…
Rather than focus on fixing the AJAX things that are still broken because of the RTM release tonight, I chose to jump even further into the abyss by adding even more AJAX-based controls to the page. This time it is a search results box that pops up…
A few days ago I noticed that something was amiss with the My Wishlist page of the WhatIWantMost.com site. At the time I was working on something else so I ignored it and I returned this evening to take a closer look. I have these floating divs…
In my last post I started to run with an earlier idea that I had about extracting the logic for the various product search services I was using (Amazon, Yahoo, and Ebay) out of the UI and encapsulating them in a component that would treat them all…
