Archive for April, 2006

Scriptaculous Workflow designer

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

A simple workflow designer that allows you to drag names from a list of employees, to another list that is your process workflow. Using the Scriptaculous sortable list effect, this tool allows your average user to redesign workflows on the fly in a very intuitive way.

After being shown the Scriptaculous effects library, my usual […]

So you want to learn .NET?

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

As of today, Microsoft now has available express editions of Visual Studio .NET. You can download for free any of these lightweight versions of the .NET development tools:

For Web Development:
Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition
For Windows Development:
Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition
Visual C# 2005 Express Edition
Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition
Visual J# 2005 Express Edition
Database Development:
SQL […]

Why can’t Domino do this…?

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

Scenario: Any Domino application that requires reports.
Typical Solution: Create a different view for each report.
Upside: Extremely easy
Downside: High maintenance, performance hit from excessive indexing, and can easily become a navigational nightmare.
A Better way?: Anything where one can build a view on the fly.

If any of you got through .NET for Domino Developers Part 4 […]

Code Igniter: Ruby on Rails for PHP

Saturday, April 8th, 2006

Hat tip to Jerry Carter and Mark Barton for this excellent find; CodeIgniter MVC application framework for PHP. If you do any PHP development, or would like to see an excellent Model-View-Controller (MVC) tutorial, you owe it to yourself to give this tool a look-see.
First and foremost, CodeIgniter is a pretty kick-ass framework tool […]

A Domino Developer on .NET

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

Well, after 5 months of almost all .NET development, and alot recently with a very complex content management application, I can say without the slightest hestitation, that Domino developers have it easy.

Make no mistake, .NET is an extremely powerful and flexible development platform that can cutdown your development time significantly over J2EE, but Microsoft still […]