Archive for May, 2009

Understanding The Fundamentals Of ASP Developers

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

In the past 6 months I’ve been involved in hiring a lot of ASP.NET developers. It was very interesting to learn just how different skill sets ASP.NET developers have. It also made it more and more clear that every developer we talked to would fit into one of three categories:

  • The web developer
  • The developer who build websites
  • The ASP.NET super hero

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Using ASP.Net As A Database

Friday, May 15th, 2009

I have a very clear view on what ASP.NET is and what it isn’t. I’ve never given it much thought until recently when I learned that my view was different from a lot of other ASP.NET developers’. It started at an ASP.NET session at the MVP summit where a presenter asked whether or not people in the audience used the Entity Framework or Linq2Sql. (more…)

Optimizing Your Site For Mobile Devices With ASP

Friday, May 1st, 2009

When I was building the mobile TV guide I found that there are a couple of things needed to make the website look better on the iPhone and iPod. They both have some extra capabilities that is easy to utilize when you know how.

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