February 2008
2 posts
Movin'
I tried Tumblr. It’s real nice, but is a bit limited in terms of tagging and commenting, so I’m moving the blog. Blog now at http://jmcd.nu/blog
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Microsoft and Developer Duality
There are two different Microsofts. On the one hand there is the Microsoft that everyone knows. They make Office, try to lock people into proprietary formats, butterfly around technologies that other companies are already successful in (MSN Search, Zune) and twice a decade release a new version of the leviathan that is Windows. This is the Microsoft that everyone knows. They are a fact of life...
January 2008
3 posts
New Project --> Choosing Tools
I have a project I’d like to try for fun and learning. It’s been rattling round in my head for quite a while, and I think I’m finally ready to get going on it. It’s going to be a web application, and its green-field. I have a rough idea of the domain, and some idea of bits of the UI. I’m pretty much free to choose whatever I like technology-wise. I used to be a pure Java kind of guy,...
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Process Driven Vs. Entity Driven UI Design
I used to enjoy writing HTML UIs, but then I had traumatic experiences with nested tables, CSS and cross browser compatibility and went cold on the whole experience. For a good five years or so I avoided the UI like the plague. Since moving to a new job last year I’ve been much more involved with the “front-end” of the ASP.NET product that I work on. Things are much better than...
Blog thing
I have it. First post etc.