Until recently, I have been a T-Mobile customer since 2001. Over the past 8 years, I have bought a new phone almost every year. This past June, it was time again for a new phone, so my wife and I got two shiny new Blackberry Curves. We decided these phones offered hotspot access at home through your...
Good days, bad days, all of us want to relax. We've worked all week and yet still google 'relaxation tips'. I have searched all over for ways to relax ... everything from deep breathing, yoga, you name it. These techniques do help, but to me are not the key to relaxation. How to relax is simple - work...
Some cool changes have come along for RestLess . Instead of blabbering on, I'll dive right into the changes. Small naming changes Based on Dave Donaldson 's recommendation, IRESTReadable, RESTProperty, etc have their case changed. They are now IRestReadable, RestProperty, etc. Just do a rename all on...
I have been disappointed with the amount of legwork involved with setting up a simple REST API, so I decided to write a small attribute-based framework. The goal was to make it as simple as possible and be discoverable. Right now, the framework only supports GETting objects from your api, but that will...
The more sites I've tried in the past few years, the more I've noticed who cares about usability and who uses it in their marketing slogans. Some of the biggest players on the web define usability as doing what everyone else does . That is NOT usability. I will pick on my own application to demonstrate...
Today, I launched a one-click live demo of Meiraware Business (a simple and easy invoicing application). Why a live demo? In my opinion, screencasts and/or screenshots is a distant second to actually using an application. Screencasts - I don't want to be guided through by someone who knows what they...
I've been asked by a few people the easiest way to store your data inside Graffiti. Most people start the question with "How do I add tables to the database ....". You could do that, but it would be complicated and annoying to deploy to other users. Simply use the ObjectManager and all your code will move to any Graffiti installation with ease.
Nathaniel Talbott had a great presentation this evening at the Agile RTP meeting. His Lightning Talk (4 - 5 minutes), Jim Cramer style, was about spending more energy on your application's user interface. One line from his slides really hit home for me: The user interface IS THE APPLICATION I couldn...
I just finished the first run of a Graffiti plug-in I'm calling SkinnyWeb. This plug-in allows you to compress the source output of your graffiti website to the user using GZIP, DEFLATE, or a custom WhiteSpace module. For now, it only compresses the outputted html. I've got some issues to work around...
A month or so ago my VM completely hard locked. I was working on Graffiti and had just created a category called 'test'. I had no choice but to force the vm closed and reopen. When I booted back up the system ran chkdsk. It fixed a lot of stuff, but 'test' was sititng in that source directory saying...
