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Using a plain Flex UI theme to show clients before styling
The default Flex 2 Aeon theme looks fairly polished and showing it to clients in the early stages of a project can have it's disadvantages. For example a client may believe the project is closer to release than it is or if you use Adobe Flex for prototyping may believe that the default theme represents...
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FIG: User Experience Design resource for Adobe Flex
Back in September, Adobe released a new section to the Flex Developer Center, called FIG or Flex Interface Guide. This is an excellent resource for anyone involved in the Interaction Design (IxD) or User Experience (Ux) of RIAs or any developers who want to make more user focussed apps. There are several articles still in...
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Excellent WYSIWYG HTML editor (all platforms)
I have been trying out several HTML editors for ASP.Net and thought I would share this excellent find that works with several platforms, including ASP.Net, ASP, PHP, Java etc. Up until now I was using FreeTextBox, however this was giving me grief in Firefox so decided that I needed to find a new solution. FCKeditor...
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Writing an XML-RPC server or client in ASP.Net: Part 2
In my previous article I covered how to setup an XML-RPC server in .Net, in particular looking at how to service XML-RPC MetaWebLog API requests. In this second part I am looking at how we can easily construct an XML-RPC client to ping blog directory or search services such as Technorati, Google BlogSearch, blo.gs etc....
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Writing an XML-RPC server or client in ASP.Net: Part 1
Part Two available here I have recently be working on a project which needed to implement the blogging MetaWebLog API, allowing users to post blog messages from their favorite blog editor, such as Windows Live Writer or blog directly from MetaWebLog API enabled websites such as Flickr or Digg. My tutorial below will show you...
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Following the MVC code methodology with ASP.Net/SubSonic
I have been recently getting into Ruby on Rails and wanted to share my experiences of applying a similar philosophy to ASP.Net development. One of the core principles of RoR is based on the development of dynamic websites around the Model, View, Controller Methodology. This gives a clean code separation and by following this convention...
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