Software is about users…

Books I recommend:

> Rework : As Seth Godin puts it, “ignore this book at your own peril.” This comes from the guys at 37signals, and it has changed my approach to software design. 

> About Face: This is a fantastic book with significant depth and yet very readable.

> Don’t Make Me Think: This is a good book, a good intro perhaps, but a bit basic. Still it’s a classic and well deserves it’s place on the list.

> Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning good but not very fun to read.

JQuery Plugins (of course)

Color Tool Tips http://tutorialzine.com/2010/07/colortips-jquery-tooltip-plugin/ 

Various apps & plugins : http://www.zinescripts.com/

Dot Net

TownCrier – an email templating engine http://thecodedecanter.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/town-crier-an-open-source-e-mail-templating-engine-for-net/ 

Web Stuff

Tileable Textures (very nice)

http://tileabl.es/

10 Tips for designing Mobile web sites

: http://labs.thesedays.com/2010/07/16/10-tips-for-designing-mobile-websites/

Resize your browser

: http://resizemybrowser.com/

5 Web Files That Will Improve Your Website

 http://sixrevisions.com/web-standards/5-web-files-that-will-improve-your-website/

960 Grid made easy:

http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/the-960-grid-system-made-easy/

WEB

• SAMMY: A JQuery plug-able app framework: Sammy is a tiny javascript framework built on top of jQuery. It’s RESTful Evented JavaScript.

•  Code Style: Code Style answers key questions for Web developers. Which Web fonts are most common? How to use media dependent style sheets? Make more robust, accessible Websites with open standards technology.

• Twilio: BUILD POWERFUL VOICE & SMS APPS. Twilio provides a web-service API for businesses to build scalable, reliable communication apps.

• TypeTester: Compare screen type to see readability of various settings.\

• EZ-CSS : Putting the “less” in table-less layouts. A very easy, nestable css framework. VERY EASY.

  • (also look at http://elasticss.com/ A simple css framework to layout web-based interfaces, based on the printed layout techniques of 4 columns but with capabilities to unlimited column combinations. and capacity to make elastic, fixed and liquid layout easily.)

• Launchlist - Your one stop website checklist!

• Hicks Design Icon Referencehttp://hicksdesign.co.uk/iconreference/

• Progressive Enhancement: http://www.filamentgroup.com/dwpe (view it on multiple devices to be wow-ed (also http://www.modernizr.com/)

MOBILE

• Sencha Touch: (Haven’t used this but…) The First HTML5 Mobile App Framework Sencha Touch allows you to develop web apps that look and feel native on Apple iOS and Google Android touchscreen devices. These are the EXTJS guys. (I’m definitely going to take a crack at these guys) 

• Book on Building Android Apps (HTML + CSS + JSCRIPT) Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

• JQTouch — A jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone,
  iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices.

.. Sundry ..

ipad detritus: http://mir.aculo.us/2010/06/04/making-an-ipad-html5-app-making-it-really-fast/

web checker: http://launchlist.net/ (checks for issues / problems / etc…)

jquery online primer: http://www.rebeccamurphey.com/jqfundamentals/

Very cool slider (JQUERY) http://papermashup.com/build-a-jquery-content-feature-like-mailchimp/

jquery UI tools: http://flowplayer.org/tools/index.html

Aside : (cool EF blog post on write first modeling)  HERE

Icons (Gcons): http://www.greepit.com/open-source-icons-gcons/

Unshackle Your Domain

: Greg Young > InfoQ Link : Nice video but long (1 hour)

Clarified CQRS

: Udi Dahan’s righteous post on his blog here. Nice graphic.

CQRS à la Greg Young

An even more detailed / concrete post by Mark Nijhof that can be found here http://elegantcode.com/2009/11/11/cqrs-la-greg-young/comment-page-1/#comments. He ahs great hand drawn diagrams (previewed below, but the code is the best part… real working example)

  > He has a working example of a banking application (winforms) here: http://github.com/MarkNijhof/Fohjin

> And a video on vimeo here: http://vimeo.com/7838858

Domain-Driven Design (the book)

Don’t forget Eric Evans DDD book that you can find here:http://www.amazon.com/Domain-Driven-Design-Tackling-Complexity-Software/dp/0321125215/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270092554&sr=8-1

Other articles & frameworks

Sadly there are currently no .NET CQRS frameworks I could find. That said there are some Java. The front runner seems to be.

axonframework : CQRS Framework for Java

They have great documentation and a similar diagram as Mark (minus a command bus)

http://code.google.com/p/axonframework/

On InfoQ: http://www.infoq.com/articles/cqrs_with_axon_framework

EventSourcing & Snapshots

http://jonathan-oliver.blogspot.com/2009/03/event-sourcing-and-snapshots.html

Asynchronous Event Sourcing using Actors (SCALA)

Article : http://jonasboner.com/2009/02/12/event-sourcing-using-actors.html

• DESIGNING RICH EXPERIENCES FOR DATA-CENTRIC APPLICATIONS http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/EX56 
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• DEVELOPING WITH WCF RIA SERVICES QUICKLY AND EFFECTIVELY http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL09
• THE OPENRASTA FRAMEWORK FOR BUILDING RESTFUL APPLICATIONS http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/EX19
• BUILDING INNOVATIVE WINDOWS CLIENT SOFTWARE http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL30
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• AN INTRODUCTION TO DEVELOPING APPLICATIONS FOR MICROSOFT SILVERLIGHT http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL15
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• DEBUGGING MICROSOFT SILVERLIGHT APPLICATIONS http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/EX50
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• BUILDING LARGE-SCALE, DATA-CENTRIC APPLICATIONS WITH SILVERLIGHT http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/EX38
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• THE MICROSOFT SILVERLIGHT ANALYTICS FRAMEWORK http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL24
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• INTRODUCING THE SILVERLIGHT ROUGH CUT EDITOR http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL26
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• DYNAMIC LAYOUT AND TRANSITIONS FOR MICROSOFT SILVERLIGHT 4 WITH MICROSOFT EXPRESSION BLEND http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL55
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• ACCESSING WEB SERVICES IN MICROSOFT SILVERLIGHT http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL58
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• THE LAWS OF USER EXPERIENCE http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/DS01
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• GREAT USER EXPERIENCES: SEAMLESSLY BLENDING TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/DS11
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• THE MONO PROJECT http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/EX02
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• MODERN WEB FORM DESIGN http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/EX03

Sources:

[1] http://www.codeproject.com/KB/tips/VSnetIDETipsAndTricks.aspx

[2] http://www.itscodingtime.com/post/Visual-Studio-2010-Keyboard-Mouse-Shortcuts.aspx

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Fantastic post!

This blog series is amazing: http://blogs.msdn.com/endpoint/archive/2010/01/06/introducing-wcf-webhttp-services-in-net-4.aspx

> Especially (IMHO) this blog on ROUTES: (used in MVC & WCF 4.0) : http://blogs.msdn.com/endpoint/archive/2010/01/25/using-routes-to-compose-wcf-webhttp-services.aspx

Beyond that, if you are using ASP.NET MVC RC2… well you need a book, and Jeffrey Palermo has been writing one that you can help him edit on : GIT

> http://github.com/jeffreypalermo/mvc2inaction

Learn, Build, Reap.

http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/01/MonoTouch-iPad

1. docs.dojocampus.org : Main documentation

This is where the main documentation for dojo can be found, search is good but must be dead on – use google :site docs.dojocampus.org if you don’t know exactly what you are looking for.

1. There is also a doc-staging.dojocampus.org that has some more recent information – use cautiously.

2. redesign.dojotoolkit.org/ : redesign of the api.dojotoolkit.org

We don’t use the existing api.dojotoolkit.org site very much. The redesign site is better.

> But you may need to switch to OLDER versions (drop down)

3. Check for bugs at http://trac.dojotoolkit.org/

You can find up to date & tracked bugs, status, etc.. on this site. Very helpful when you are having *strange* issues.

> Also be careful if you are using a CDN, sometimes the patches have not made their way to the CDN’s and you need to use the latest build (e.g. a local copy)

4. Check out tests at http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/

Here are were you can find tests of the various widgets in action – helpful for seeing what works, how it works etc…

This is an amazing site / amazing test suite… check it out just for fun (if nothing else).

Directory:

• http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/dojo-2010-01-27/dojotoolkit/dijit/tests/

Eye popping, cool D.O.H. = Dojo Objective Harness (WOW these guys are bad asses)

• http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/dojo-2010-01-27/dojotoolkit/util/doh/runner.html?testModule=dijit.tests.module