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It is human nature to jump right into a project without spending the necessary preparation time to ensure success. They say that 80% of the effort painting a room is preparation (laying the tarps, cleaning the walls, taping the trim, etc.). This is also the case when developing applications. If you don’t properly storyboard the [...]
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Before HTML5 when it came to creating rich interactive maps where one could hover or click any region and see details about them, Flash was the right tool for the job. Right now, though, it is much easier to create maps with JavaScript and, thanks to JS frameworks, it even gets much simpler and jVectorMap [...]
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Crossfilter is a JavaScript library for exploring large multivariate datasets in the browser. Crossfilter supports extremely fast (<30ms) interaction with coordinated views, even with datasets containing a million or more records; Since most interactions only involve a single dimension, and then only small adjustments are made to the filter values, incremental filtering and reducing is [...]
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If you ever created a professional website/application you’ll probably know the value (you’ve probably learned it the hard way as I did 
) of stress testing your web applications.
There are plenty of tools you can use in order to stress test your web site, ranging from Microsoft Visual Studio to CMD Line tools. Yesterday I found another one StresStimulus.
StresStimulus is an extension for Fiddler (an awesome and free web debugging proxy) which enables us to create instant load tests with virtual users.
You can record a browser activity (like creating a user), replay it under concurrent load and get the results for the performance of web pages and the entire test.
If you prefer a simple but powerful tool this one is for you.
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I recently had a conversation with a client about the future of press and how digital magazines and newspapers are the future of the business. When we talked about that I had a few technologies in mind but nothing like Treesaver.
Treesaver is a JavaScript framework for creating magazine-style layouts that dynamically adapt to a wide variety of browsers and devices. Both content and design is shaped with standards-compliant HTML + CSS and no JavaScript programming is required.
It simply searches for the <article> tags and displays the content inside them, makes browsing them possible with prev-next buttons and auto-generates a "contents" menu.
The JavaScript is under 25K gzipped (pretty important for mobile) and works with most modern browsers (degrades gracefully for others).
Note to self: Keep that in mind, it might come handy 
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I’ve been involved for quite some time now with a new Microsoft project codenamed “ WebMatrix ” but couldn’t say anything about it since all the info was under NDA. Today though, the public availability of the Microsoft WebMatrix Beta was announced, so I guess I’m no longer bound by the NDA agreement and can let you in on a few things. So first let me clarify a few things, and to do
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If you have already started playing around SQL Azure you will have probably stumbled on the limitation the SQL Management studio has. So I think you’ll find SQL Azure Explorer rather useful till Microsoft synchronizes its toolset with the Azure platform. SQL Azure Explorer is an addin for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 that will enable you to manage you SQL Azure Tables just live the Visual
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If you’re into Silverlight/WPF development you’ll surely appreciate Karl Shifflett’s XAML Power Toys: http://tinyurl.com/karlpowertoys Awesome (free) tool for WPF/Silverlight. XAML Power Toys Full Feature Set includes Create ViewModel Class - from a VB.NET or C# code window, easily create a ViewModel stub that includes commands and exposed data class. Optionally you can elect to re-implement
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If you’re into geo-app development the following tools should come handy. GeoFrameworks and Jon Person released their GPS Framework for .NET on CodePlex ! The really nice thing about this framework is it works with both the full blown .NET Framework and the Compact Framework. If you’re developing for a Windows Mobile, embedded, laptop or desktop computer, it should handle all your needs.
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