September 2009

Delvinia Interactive and Edentity have won a WebAward for 'Outstanding Achievement in Web Development' in the 'Non-Profit Standard of Excellence' category for the Canadian Opera Company website.

After working on a few multi-lingual sites, the common problem that I face was the swapping the text and images. Now, you can use <%$  %> expression builder to get the text and image path from resources files.

The String.Trim(), String.StartWith and String.EndWith methods are very useful methods that are prebuilt into the .NET framework, that need a client-side implementation. Below are the javascript equivalents that I have found to be extremely helpful.

Agility has been used to manage content embedded in Flash objects for a while. However, the Five Axis site is the first example of an Agility-managed site that is 100% Flash - navigation, content and all.

Personally, I love the “Browser Capabilities” project on codeplex that does a nice job of extracting the actual things that a browser can do, saving you from doing things the following:

Novell launched Mono in 2004 as a platform for building and deploying .NET applications in Linux. MonoTouch is designed to extend that capability to iPhone development.

Recently I had to install SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services and thought if I summarized the things that are needed to pay attention to, it might be helpful for anyone who is in the same situation.

There are a plethora of explanations for JSONP (JSON with Padding, I think it stands for) out there – just search for “how JSONP works” and you’ll get a ton of descriptions.  Here's my take.