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Balancing Innovation with Legacy: Choosing the Right Path for the Greater Good

As solutions architects, we often find ourselves at the intersection of innovation and legacy. We’re constantly faced with choices that can lead us toward modern, elegant solutions or the well-worn road of tried-and-tested approaches. A few years ago, I encountered this crossroad when I was asked to lead a Fintech project requiring me to convert a legacy Windows-based platform written in VB.NET to a new web-based solution. The timeline? It was a challenging seven months, with a high-stakes presentation at a major industry conference on the horizon.

Crafting a Successful Software Development Roadmap – A Guide for Product Managers

Introduction

As a product manager, one of your key responsibilities is creating and managing the software development roadmap. This strategic document serves as the guiding light for your development team, outlining your product’s vision, direction, and priorities over time. But how can you ensure your roadmap succeeds with developers and the business? This blog post explores best practices for planning, engaging, measuring, reviewing, and communicating your software development roadmap.

jQuery – Slow Selectors

Recently I was experiencing slow jQuery functions. Slow jQuery was especially slow as I added more elements to the page and especially in Internet Explorer and FireFox. I was not surprised by the browsers being slower than others, but the fact that the jQuery was slower than it should was a surprise. Continue reading jQuery – Slow Selectors

Which Web Tools – When and How Much

I cannot say enough about learning which tools use when. It is only through experience will you ever learn this discipline. I have learned when to use a handful of tools and how often. I have also learned that sometimes there is overhead that can make your projects bloated; therefore, I often create my own ( although some may argue against it).
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Simple JS Dialog

Keeping in the spirit of using my blog as a quick code repository; sometimes you just need a simple easy to implement dialog box. I have been using the following routine for sometime now. Sometimes you just need a simple piece of code to get the project done. This although is very simple, it does the job perfectly. It is not how I often style it, but you can figure that out.

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HTML to PDF

Have you ever wanted a function to convert HTML to PDF? It is really easy. A good use of this is when you have a resume on your website and you want to create a download of it as a PDF. Mind you; you will have to properly format your resume so it looks good in both cases. Not the easiest job, but totally worth while to have a resume download created on demand. Continue reading HTML to PDF

My Story

Here is my story as a developer. I started out playing on Commodore 64 in elementary school. I would have to give a lot of credit to the Librarian at Valleyview Public School. He had allowed me to work with him, set up computers and actually spend time on the computers. Continue reading My Story

The Story of C# Meeting AngularJS

Most of you already know that I still like my WebForms. People have argued that using AngularJS with WebForms is pointless, but I say NA! It makes the user experience a little bit smoother.

In this blog I will show you how to create a table that can be sorted and paged using AngularJS. I chose not to use a webserivce as I did not feel like this warranted the extra overhead and code. I wanted to keep this absolutely simple. I would have used a webserivce had I been creating an API for others to use. This is also a project that is ultimately using WebForms, had I been doing an MVC project; webservices would have been a better choice.

Is this the best way; probably not! This is my first run with this, so I am doing it the way I know and the way I find the easiest to manipulate for my purpose.
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A Quest to Learn AngularJS

I recently got excited about AngularJS. I took a pretty good course through CodeSchool for which you can find a link off of the AngularJS home page. Since then I had been playing with and scouting out AngularJS ideas that I can build something with worth while. There is no better way to learn than by doing. Then I thought; what about the weather? I had already built a real basic weather page using ASP.NET and C#, I wonder how hard it would be to build an AngularJS example. I did not know how to connect AngularJS to a web service though. Google has everything! So I looked for an example of AngularJS and OpenWeatherMap for which I had found. It did not take long to find my solution.

My Original Weather Page: http://www.ldndeveloper.com/weather.aspx

My Angular Weather: http://www.ldndeveloper.com/angular/weather.aspx
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Starting a WebForm Project

I would suggest starting with an empty project rather than letting Microsoft build you one. By you creating an empty project you are able to control what goes in it. The “Web Forms”template that Microsoft offers has so many files and structure that you would likely not even use.
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