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  • A Little Christmas Coding Magic

    When I was a kid I loved magic - simple card tricks to Copperfield’s million dollar illusions, I was easily mesmerized and mystified.  People have been bending what we THINK is reality for years.  Take a look at the picture - Which way does this window face. Are the people on the inside looking to the left or looking to the right? Are ...
    Posted to Intelligent Design (Weblog) by  FTProductDev  on December 13, 2007
  • Asp.Net vs. Standards

    A few months back I converted our site template from a table-based layout to a standards based design.  This was not a trivial task, in essence I "touched" every page in our app, which is more than 300 pages.  Recently we released major pieces of functionality, both using standards based html and heavy client-side functionality ...
    Posted to Intelligent Design (Weblog) by  mvasquez  on February 2, 2007
  • Typed Navigation

    One of the features we've worked into our new home-grown architecture is typed navigation.  Without typed navigation, urls are strewn throughout the code, and any changes to navigation or querystrings involve updates to many pages.  Not only that, providing a page the data it needs to properly initialize can be difficult to ...
    Posted to Intelligent Design (Weblog) by  thardy  on January 9, 2007
  • Persistence via Attributes

    In the new architecture we've been developing, one of the features we've developed is a common persistence mechanism.  Once again, our attempts are to make development as clear and painless as possible.  We want to make it incredibly easy to write good code, and difficult to make mistakes.  As our development team grows and ...
    Posted to Intelligent Design (Weblog) by  thardy  on October 20, 2006
  • Wrestling an Enterprise Architecture out of .NET

    As a growing "Software as a Service" (SaaS) development shop using .NET we've encountered many growing pains and some of the speed bumps inherent in the architecture that many others probably have as well.  I'd like to express some of the issues we've encountered and hear if anyone else would like to start a ...
    Posted to Intelligent Design (Weblog) by  thardy  on September 22, 2006