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May 2006 - Posts

• Mocking up ASP.NET Controls: rendering at design time

  I was working on some proof of concept web controls this weekend; my team has just started work on a new atlas enable website - we are up against a tight deadline and the designs for the site are most ambitious. I have been thinking about a process to Read More... Posted 29 May 2006 15:51 by howard.vanrooijen | 2 Comments Filed under: ASP.NET 2.0

• Test Posting from Word 2007 Beta 2

  I’ve spent most of today installing Vista Beta 2 on my new Dell XPS 600 system. Having only really played with Vista on a slow and under powered Dell Laptop – I can quite honestly say I’m pretty impressed with WPF powered UI and the User Experience (everything Read More... Posted 27 May 2006 23:37 by howard.vanrooijen | 2 Comments Filed under: Musings

• "Conchango Leads In The Field Of European Web Design Agencies"

  I know this has already been trumpeted elsewhere on the Conchango blogs - but I thought it needed saying again. The research and analysis company Forrester assessed 16 different design companies (including AKQA (who designed the Xbox 360 user interface), Read More... Posted 21 May 2006 19:46 by howard.vanrooijen | 0 Comments Filed under: Agile, .NET, Musings

• Generics and Serialization

  Roy Osherove has been blogging about Generics a few times 1 2 3 this week - which reminded me that I had a post saved in my “Drafts” folder in Outlook that simply said “ talk about Generics and Serialization ”. One of the main benefits of Generics in Read More... Posted 21 May 2006 17:06 by howard.vanrooijen | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Tools, Musings

• London Ruby User Group

  I attended a meeting of the London Ruby User Group (LRUG) last night – Ben Griffiths (CTO of Reevoo ) gave a talk about his team’s experience of testing Ruby applications and how Ruby Idioms bring much more flexibility to the fold. It was quite eye opening Read More... Posted 09 May 2006 09:19 by howard.vanrooijen | 0 Comments Filed under: Ruby