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…
The last couple of weeks may have been the proverbial straw. Between the freezing cold, the damned snow, the sleet, the flu, the (bad word!) heating bill, the flu and just being locked up indoors all day… we’ve about had it with our beloved…
Dustin Campbell contributed his second post today in his new series preparing us for functional programming in .NET 3.0. Today he went into more detail about closures . Yesterday he introduced closures while discussing how to calculate a Fibonacci…
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…
In my last post , a status update, I wrote that the next thing I wanted to add to the site was a list of the most popular items in wishlists and that I was planning on using the Amazon ID to count them. Again, building the domain layer functionality…
