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 consume these three resources in a weekend and, if you apply them, will see immediate positive ...

I am excited to announce the launch of Pomegranate. Pomegranate is a SharePoint 2007/ASP.NET 2.0 exemplar (reference) application. The main component of the application is a Business Intelligence (BI) Dashboard that an insurance agent would use to track customer based Key Performance Indicators (KPI).   Fiquare 1: ...

I had a great time speaking at the NYC Chapter of IASA on April 15 about UI Frameworks and Patterns. If you did not get a chance to attend I am giving a similar talk at the next Philly.Net Code Camp on May 17. Check out the Philly.Net Code Camp site for more details. Here are the Slide and Code from the UI Framework and Patterns presentation.

  I will be speaking next Tuesday (April 15) at the NYC chapter of IASA on UI Frameworks and Patterns. If you are in the area stop by as we dive into different patterns used for building enterprise applications. Here are the details about meeting Topic: UI Frameworks and Patterns: MVC, MVP, or MVPOO? Are you confused yet? This session ...

I had a great time speaking last week in NYC at Devscovery. It was nice meeting a number of Infragistics customers and talking to them about our great products along with design best practices (Patterns, TDD, UX, etc…) and SharePoint development. I want to also thank my co-speakers: Ambrose Little, Devin Rader, and Andres Aguiar these guys are ...

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 of our seasoned control developers and designers to bring you the best content ...

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 nowhere to do it (yet). :)  I'm sure it will surface more than once throughout the ...

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 clear to me that the thrust of that post is around a philosophical approach that he thinks ...

Over the years I have mentored many developers on using design patterns and best practices. One question that keeps coming up over and over again is: What are the differences between the Model View Controller (MVC) and Model View Presenter (MVP) patterns? Surprisingly the answer is more complex than what you would suspect. Part of reasons I think ...

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 planning.  This is something that's been kind of rolling in and out of my ...

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.  His focus is physical architecture, but it is interesting how closely it resembles agile software ...

[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 my experiences both for my own sake and also in case others might find something of ...

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").  Since I tend to use this term a lot, I figured I'd try to fill this gap and, at the very least, ...

As I sit here on my deck, enjoying the cool autumn breeze1, 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 and design discussions we had this week, both of which involve the question of best ...

This week was my first week back on the office after a 2 week tour in India.  I was a speaker on a three city tour for the SD Best Practices conferences that were held in India by Dr. Dobbs magazine.  This was my first opportunity to meet the editor in chief of Dr. Dobbs, Jonathan Erickson, so it was a pleasure just to have that ...