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"When an application is loading, users will typically see a progress bar on their screen that gives them a visual indication of when the application will finish loading. The way your progress bar moves and animates affects how users perceive the load time of your application"

Here's a short overview of four major user interface patterns in their original form, put together and illustrated. A bit of information is added to patterns (with notes to highlight these additions) to show a slightly different viewpoint and different ideas.

I have a very simple rule, I like to follow that helps to simplify my code. "Don't validate developer input" This rule simply means that we should not try and validate input that came from a source that is not a user or external system.

Git is the source code version control system that is rapidly becoming the standard for open source projects. It has a powerful distributed model which allows advanced users to do tricky things with branches, and rewriting history. What a pity that it's so hard to learn, has such an unpleasant command line interface, and treats its users with such utter contempt.

"LinkedIn has just passed 175 million registered users and is widely recognized to be the most successful business-oriented social media networking site in the world. So why haven't more people - especially IT pros -  figured out how to maximize its features and make it a tool that effectively builds relationships with their peers and attracts appropriate employment options?"

"The good news is there are many entrepreneurs and inventors that agree with me and they are currently building new and better ways for us to interact with computers."

TechEd Europe 2012: great talk about SignalR, the lightweight messaging system that allows you to have a real-time connections between clients or between the client and the server. Imagine visiting a web page and having everything you do appear instantaneously in the browsers of all other users that are visiting that page. Think chat clients, collaborative editing, etc.

...we think of requirements of coming in the form of user stories. [...] But what are characteristics of a good story? The acronym "INVEST" can remind you that good stories are...

Table of Contents In this article, we will try to understand what the different events are which take place right from the time the user sends a request, until the time the request is rendered on the browser.

Good Web design shouldn't be memorable. Good Web design should be quietly working behind the scenes to allow its glory hunting brother - content - to step forward and take center stage.