02 Sep 2008
A new web browser has arrived. Google Chrome has just been released in beta. Here are my initial thoughts:- The installer worked and it imported all of my Firefox settings without a problem. The design is simple and clean and feels less cluttered than IE or Firefox. The tabs work really well and each tab sits within its own process so that hopefully any pages or sites that would normally crash the entire browser will...
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19 Jul 2008
http://www.cafepress.com/cp/customize/designer.aspx?clear=true&number=286179670#
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20 Jun 2008
Today I started to build a new website and have been given the design from the graphic designer along with all the images that are needed to build the site. The next step is to turn the design into XHTML and CSS and create a .NET Master Page for this new design. Some earlier reading and research has pointed me to some nice CSS frameworks that can help me out with this. YUI Grids CSS...
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14 Jun 2008
On a project I worked on recently the team used the SCRUM methodology for building the software. Scrum is just one of the many flavours of agile software development and for the most part it worked really well. The easy side of any agile project for me are all the good things such as getting the development tree setup in source control, getting a continuous integration server working and practicing techniques such as TDD with...
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14 Jun 2008
I've just finished reading a couple of fantastic articles written by Billy
McCafferty that cover ASP.NET MVC, NHibernate and Spring.
NHibernate Best Practices with ASP.NET
S#arp Architecture: ASP.NET MVC with NHibernate and Spring
When I get some downtime I'm going to have a proper look at Billy's S#arp
Architecture.
While writing this, I
was listening to "Sorting out Internationalization with Michael Kaplan" by Scott Hanselman
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