Category Archives: Web development

Considering ASP.NET MVC UI controls? Learn HTML and Javascript! 5

Warning: highly subjective content ahead. In the recent weeks we’ve seen several control vendors come up with toolkits that target ASP.NET MVC. Personally, I don’t see anything that might make me starting to consider picking one of these toolkits to speed up development. Why on earth would I prefer a wrapper around jQuery UI or [...]

The problem of data grids in your web application 2

I’m sure everybody who builds web applications uses grids to display data. There is nothing wrong with that per se, but you might not realize that you’re increasing the customers expectations to an unreachable level: Yes, all very nice and well, but can’t you make that thing work like Excel? My first thought is always [...]

ASP.NET MVC bridging the gap with PHP development? 1

For a long time, there has been a distinct separation between ASP.NET and PHP developers. The platforms have been so fundamentally different and also have the surrounding cultures. Generally speaking, ASP.NET developers consider the PHP guys script kiddies with no real understanding of ‘real’ software development and the PHP guys saw ASP.NET developers as some [...]