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June 2008

Live.com: Where Is Alignment?

Since the last redesign of Live.com, I kept waiting for them to do something about the apparent lack of alignment. Alignment is one of the very basic principles of UI design. I discussed it back when I had fun with the latest rendering of Microsoft.com. Read this blog post

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Is This An Error?

Here’s a dialog box from Visual Studio 2008 Team System: Read this blog post

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MVC + Traditional ASP.NET = Deadly Combination

A couple of years ago Billy McCafferty wrote about an approach to bring the Model-View-Presenter pattern (MVP) to the ASP.NET. Since then I’ve seen a couple of permutations of the technique, and numerous attempts to actually make it work. Read this blog post

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Seventh Beta of The Seventh Beta

I simply can’t resist posting this graphic from Microsoft Connect: Read this blog post

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In Search Of Best Methodology

There was a time when Agile nazis zealots used to make me feel bad. I’d feel guilty about not following The Agile by the book. We did not do stickies with user stories, had no burn–down chart, did not calculate velocity, etc. We had a similar, less intricate process, and it worked reasonably well for our needs. Read this blog post

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