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I just came across Scotts article on Master Pages. Love it. Some really good tips. Now why didn’t I see that before I wonder…

Its been a while since I’ve surveyed the various offerings for shopping carts. In this day and age it strikes me that the software that used to be called on to list some items and handle the checkout process has grown into what you might call a complete E_commerce system. Most carts these days handle […]

Codeproject article on serializing a custom class (Via Frans Bouma)
Another drop in the CSS Friendly Adapter Toolkit. Its a nice way of changing the html/css output for server controls.It brings their output more in line with current CSS practices.
Ryan Farley discusses RSS Feeds in IE and Vista. Both have built in FeedReader classes.
Scott […]

I just watched the demo for scrybe. What a beautiful app. It looks to be a real Ajax showcase. Alas, I think all of that needs to be in Outlook because I use my Email Client for most of this work. Alternately I also use GMail as my personal email account, so perhaps if there […]

My collection of interesting links has been growing for weeks and I haven’t had the time to post them. So here they are in one massive list.

Daniel Zeiss is on rev 9 of his major Ajax framework comparison. Great stuff.
Today I installed ScrewTurn Wiki in 10 minutes (as opposed to an hour for […]

This is the best book on ASP.NET on the market right now.
Seriously folks, I don’t usually gush about ASP.NET books but this one really is the best. In no other book have I seen better applicable examples and code than this one.
I don’t know how else to say it or emphasize it. If […]

Udi posted this little note about DDD which nicely dovetails with my own rant on my alter ego blog (toolsandhacks).  Nice to know that I’m not alone in questioning this practice.

Recently I had a conversation with the owner of a e-commerce web site. He expressed some of his frustrations with the structure of many e-commerce sites, including his own,  by saying very simply and succinctly “ Give me Amazon.com. Give me a way for a customer to purchase items by NOT asking them to provide a […]

I can’t help it. I have to add my $.02 here. There has been quite a bit of uproar over the way Jamie Cansdale got treated by the MVP program. If you spend a little time reading the links  you will certainly scratch your head about the behavior of whomever that jerk is at Microsoft. […]

Grady Booch draws an amusing but all too true analogy between snake oil and SOA, while OASIS just published its first Reference Model for SOA. Wish there was some code rather than pretty balloons but its a start. I’m still not convinced that SOA is as easily done as many would have you believe.
David Chappell has a […]

“….. For better or worse, SOA (service-oriented architecture) continues to be the current industry fad. As SOA continues along the “hype curve” (a term I’m borrowing from Gartner), more and more people are starting to realize that SOA isn’t a silver bullet, and that it doesn’t actually replace n-tier client/server or object-orientation.
 
What will most […]

I really like Michael Gonnerman’s site. Its chockful of all sorts of interesting points. Mind you these are business related, not programming. Check out his 99 ways to increase cash found on the tools page. There are several people I know who could benefit from this list.