Nearly a year ago I was working for a company in the financial services industry that had need for a scalable, secure, AJAX application. It was extremely large in scale and scope and it quickly became clear that I was going to have to have some sort of organizational structure to build the application upon. … Read more
As the web has grown, the Javascript programming language has grown with it to become rich and robust. Whereas websites used to have only a couple of lines of Javascript code used in them, Javascript has evolved to a point where it often does a large part of the heavy lifting in Internet Application development. … Read more
If I haven’t said this before, I am seriously planning on showing more code in some of my post in the near future. This one is slightly related to my previous blog entry, What is UI / UX? but I will be more focused because I’m just going to be talking about how links relate to user … Read more
When I tell people that I’m a User Experience / User Interface Developer, I tend to get a mixture of people who say “you make website, I can’t event check my e-mail” and people who aren’t exactly sure what it means to be a user experience designer. My goal through this blog is to tackle … Read more
SEO has been a hot topic especially in the last few years as the number of websites on the Internet has increased and being easily found on most search engines has been increasingly difficult. Everyone who has a website is looking for ways to make their site more accessible to Google and other modern search … Read more
A couple of years ago, if you had asked me what my take on design patterns for internet applications was, I would have probably given you a blank, questioning stare. You see, as sad as it is, proper design and architectural patterns aren’t exactly the norm in the web development world. Today, I’m going to … Read more
Killing IE6 Microsoft released Internet Explorer 6 nearly eight years ago in August of 2001. Since then, they have released two new versions of their web browser, IE7 and IE8 and have officially stopped supporting the outdated cousin, IE6. So why is it that most web developers are still supporting a browser that even Microsoft … Read more