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  • Coming January - Household/Individual 2.0 (try it out now)

    We started the conversation here, in this blog forum, re: the replacement of Household/Individual.  The goal was to see the ''whole picture'', make it easier to add/edit/delete details, and provide an intuitive user interface that was easy and enjoyable to use.  Our dev team took this project as a challenge to show ...
    Posted to Intelligent Design (Weblog) by  CurtisHarris  on November 19, 2008
  • DC08 RESTful rewind

    A few of you guys wanted the video from the conference on the RESTful API.  We decided to go back and condense the presentation to give you a more tangible look @ the new API. Look for more videos in the upcoming weeks to address questions and thoughts that have been coming our way. Thx guys for the awesome feedback - you guys ...
    Posted to Intelligent Design (Weblog) by  FTProductDev  on June 14, 2008
  • I AM DEV

    I'm the guy who moves stuff around in your favorite application, for what seems like no apparent reason. My drink of choice is caffeine.  My shoe of choice is flip-flop. My store of choice is Starbucks, which I walk drive to wearing my flip-flops, to get caffeine My wife, since I am fortunate to have one, calls me her ''big, strong, ...
    Posted to Intelligent Design (Weblog) by  FTProductDev  on April 10, 2008
  • A Little Christmas Coding Magic

    When I was a kid I loved magic - simple card tricks to Copperfield’s million dollar illusions, I was easily mesmerized and mystified.  People have been bending what we THINK is reality for years.  Take a look at the picture - Which way does this window face. Are the people on the inside looking to the left or looking to the right? Are ...
    Posted to Intelligent Design (Weblog) by  FTProductDev  on December 13, 2007
  • Plasma, Dog Plasma: Generics vs. Objects

    I came across an interesting quote from Tony Northrup regarding .net Generics:    “I haven’t been able to reproduce the performance benefits of generics; however, according to Microsoft, generics are faster than using casting.  In practice, casting proved to be several times faster than using a generic.  However, you probably ...
    Posted to Intelligent Design (Weblog) by  FTProductDev  on December 4, 2007
  • What do QA, a SaaS company, and Christmas have in common?

      Fellowship Technologies, of course!   Let's establish a baseline and start with what we know.  According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of quality assurance is, ''…a program for the systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of a project, service, or facility to ensure that standards of quality are being ...
    Posted to Intelligent Design (Weblog) by  FTProductDev  on December 3, 2007
  • Competing on the basis of speed - Being "lean" about development

    I came across this "good and tasty" while doing some research on Agile as it is applied to the rapidly growing, and changing Game industry.  Since there are thousands of different gaming software companies, only a handful of true game types (MMORPG, Strategy, FPS, etc...), and several barriers to market, the developers ...
    Posted to Intelligent Design (Weblog) by  nfloyd  on March 19, 2007
  • Old Dog, New App

    Last night I finished my taxes.  Though it was no small feat it seemed almost pleasurable - before you call the IRS / local asylums (one in the same) let me explain: A coworker turned me on to an awesome book by Robert Hoekman, Jr named designing the obvious.  Hoekman talks about practical approaches to designing web ...
    Posted to Intelligent Design (Weblog) by  nfloyd  on February 15, 2007
  • Asp.Net vs. Standards

    A few months back I converted our site template from a table-based layout to a standards based design.  This was not a trivial task, in essence I "touched" every page in our app, which is more than 300 pages.  Recently we released major pieces of functionality, both using standards based html and heavy client-side functionality ...
    Posted to Intelligent Design (Weblog) by  mvasquez  on February 2, 2007
  • Time is a constraint we should embrace

    In a perfect world developers would have an infinite amount of time to create the most elegant, perfect, scalable and enterprise-quality architecture/solution ever. This, my friend, would rival the airplane. Heck, it might even rival God's greatest creation. Well, sorry to be the bearer of bad news: this is not a perfect world. Time, in ...
    Posted to Intelligent Design (Weblog) by  mvasquez  on October 3, 2006