Posted on January 21st, 2010 by Arthur Kay
ExtCore and jQuery UI are both JavaScript libraries which allow web developers to create all kinds of widgets. I have been using both over the past year or so, and specifically to use their respective “Tab” widgets.
How do these two libraries compare when you want to build tabs from existing HTML markup?
Posted on January 12th, 2010 by Arthur Kay
Although websites are the easiest way to attract new customers to your business, roughly half of the small businesses in our country do not have a website. That’s an amazing statistic considering how many people use the Internet to connect with friends and search for products/services in their local area.
Your customers will judge your business when viewing your website, so you definitely want to make a good impression. Here’s why hiring a freelance web designer is probably your best bet.
Posted on January 4th, 2010 by Arthur Kay
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly was written by Maarten Balliauw and published in early 2009. The book caught my eye as I’m currently working on a project using ASP.NET MVC and I decided I could probably benefit from reading this book.
I did get some information from this book, and it’s probably worth reading if you want to learn ASP.NET MVC. I say “probably” only because I don’t know of any books which explain the concept more clearly or in a more organized fashion.
Overall, I’d give the book a 3 out of 5 stars.
Posted on December 31st, 2009 by Arthur Kay
It’s no secret that computer nerds often have strong musical skills… which is odd given that music is processed by the human brain’s right hemisphere, while math/logic are processed in the left hemisphere.
I have found that a good song puts me into a focused groove – like something just clicks inside my brain and the code writes itself. Complicated concepts unwind into simple solutions as if I can suddenly think in multiple dimensions.
The caveat, of course, is that a song isn’t long enough to maintain productivity like this. An hour (give or take) is ideal to generate some solid code, so finding an entire album (with no crappy songs) is almost priceless. Here are 10 that I suggest you try.
Posted on December 30th, 2009 by Arthur Kay
Wow, another year has come and gone. I feel like the past few months have just flown by… which is either really good or really bad depending on how you look at things.
As 2009 comes to a close, it’s a good time to look back and see how well we stuck to our New Year’s resolutions. Although I’m sure that I am not alone, I will be the first to stand up and say that (yet again) I’ve failed to complete all of my goals for this year.
So how did I do in 2009? According to my New Year’s resolutions for 2009, I guess I did alright. The question now becomes: “What are my resolutions for 2010?”