J. Ambrose Little

From Blah to Aha! in Web Sites/Apps

There are a ton of resources out there to help developers (and designers) make better Web sites and applications, but I wanted to draw out three that I think will have a very high ROI for any developer who is building for the Web.  You could easily Read More...

Come Learn Infragistics at our First Ever Conference!

This year— coming up very soon —Infragistics will be co-hosting devscovery with Wintellect! This is going to be awesome. Not too long ago, I blogged about how Infragistics is an MVP squirrel . We’re bringing those nuts to this conference as well as some Read More...

UX and Agile

I was scheduled to do a talk today called "Building Great UX with .NET" today at the SouthCT .NET UG.  Well, mother nature had other plans , and I had to reschedule for 8 April.  So I have this wonderful presentation all prepared and Read More...

Favor Thoughtful Adherence Over Blind Adherence

Far be it from me to put words in Phil's mouth, but I hope that folks recognize that his post about favoring composition over inheritance is not specifically about that one best practice (the comments seem to indicate this is being missed). It's pretty Read More...

Object Thinking Domain Model Example

Previously, I mentioned I was working on an example of using Visual Studio to create a concrete domain model using object thinking, and here it is. The domain I ended up modeling was that of a shared event calendar, including event registration and agenda Read More...

The Timeless Way is Agile

I finally got around to finishing The Timeless Way of Building , by Christopher Alexander (most well known in software for being the source of the patterns movement).  The last part of the book is called "The Way" to build things.  Read More...

Report from SD Best Practices

[Those who follow my personal blog can ignore this.] Last week I had the pleasure of attending the SD Best Practices conference in Boston. I learned a lot and met some good folks. While I was there, I published a series of daily summaries/reports about Read More...

What is a Domain Model?

When searching recently so as to provide further reading for "domain model" in a recent post , I was quite surprised to find that there seemed to be no good definition readily available (at least not by Googling "domain model").  Read More...

Web Services Best Practices

As I sit here on my deck, enjoying the cool autumn breeze 1 , I thought, what better thing to write about than Web services ! Well, no, actually I am just recalling some stuff that's happened lately. On the MSDN Architecture forums and in some coding Read More...