Spin the Moose

So Phil Haack responded to a comment on his blog and i suddenly feel a bit silly. Looks like creating a static helper class that exposes static strings will work as a way to centralize route names and refactor string literals out of my ActionNameAttributes. I should have thought of that but i was blinded [...]

Phil Haack has just written about the new ActionNameAttribute in ASP.NET MVC Preview 5. Initially, i was excited, however at the end of his post he claims that this “feature” is related to the reluctance of the MVC team to produce/support helpers “such as Url<T>(…), that use an expression to define the URL of an [...]

Remember that New York Times piece on the results of the Democratic Primary election results? It seems that they are not alone in exploring the use of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) to help visualize and explore complex data. Jonathan Boutelle has a blog entry citing several other examples and proclaiming RIA technology is superbly suited [...]

Move over del.icio.us, get ready for Delicious.com When the social bookmarking site launched it’s redesign yesterday, they faced a typical challenge: how to inform, educate, and excite their existing user base about the changes to a well used interface (delicious has ~5 million users). This challenge is faced by all of us who roll out [...]

The New York Times has published an interactive graphic entitled: How Different Groups Voted in the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primaries. Before i get to the graphic, it is interesting to notice how distracting the NYT’s web site is; if you glance quickly over the entire page you’ll notice that the content does not stand out [...]