Make Your Web Site Mobile Friendly and Scannable

by Aaron D-H 10. January 2010 05:47
With the Google’s release of the Android phone 2D symbolic encoding to make your website phone friendly is enjoying some additional attention.  Simply point your Android, I-Phone, or Windows Mobile phone camera, with an appropriate app, at the image below and data will be instantly loaded... [More]

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What to you mean IIS can't handle that kind of URL?

by Aaron D-H 8. June 2009 20:17
…or how to take advantage of the IIS 7.0 Integrated Pipeline mode. In this article we are presenting a module library for IIS 7.0 that gives full control over how IIS handles URLs. The ASP.NET URLRewriter library allows a web developer to specify and handle just about any type of URL scheme. [More]

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Software Engineering | .NET | C# | Visual Basic | ASP.NET

NO CODE! Silverlight - SharePoint Integration

by Aaron D-H 2. June 2009 20:24
Put together a Silverlight application to display SharePoint list data without using Visual Studio. A simple Silverlight library you can use in Microsoft Expression Blend to read SharePoint list data and display it in any Silverlight control. Even your mom can do it! [More]

Corporate Ready HTML and Plain Text Email with SmtpClient

by Aaron D-H 27. May 2009 01:25
Here is a new email template library that makes it dead easy for your web application to send the most professional looking email using as little as three lines of code. Sending plain text email from your web application has always been relatively easy using the SmtpClient, but most web appl... [More]

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Software Engineering | .NET | C# | ASP.NET

Displaying SharePoint Enhanced Rich Text Formatted (RTF) Text fields in Silverlight

by Aaron D-H 29. April 2009 02:56
Silverlight can be used to enhance the user experience for SharePoint users. Most data stored in SharePoint can be displayed directly by existing Silverlight controls and/or the controls available in the Silverlight Toolkit available on Codeplex.  The exception to this is the displaying ... [More]

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Software Engineering | C# | SharePoint | Silverlight

Practical Silverlight and SharePoint Integration: Part Four

by Aaron D-H 20. April 2009 22:26
Expanding on part three of this series, in this article, we will use the GetListItemsAsync call to retrieve Silverlight/SharePoint list items. [More]

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Software Engineering | C# | SharePoint | Silverlight

The Lost Art of User Interface Design

by Aaron D-H 25. March 2009 23:09
The art of user interface design has been around for as long as people have built and used tools. Here are 9 well known user interface design principles you can use to help ensure that your application or web site is designed to allow vistors get the best experience possible. [More]

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Software Engineering

Practical Silverlight and SharePoint Integration: Part Three

by Aaron D-H 9. March 2009 19:54
In Part Two of this series we expanded on the out-of-the-box connectivity to the SharePoint Lists web service and added the ability to dynamically connect to any SharePoint server URL.  In this article we will make a more complex call to retrieve list detail and show how data retrieved fro... [More]

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Software Engineering | .NET | C# | SharePoint | Silverlight

Sizing An Agile User Story

by Aaron D-H 27. February 2009 19:58
The correct way to size an agile user story is by assigning each story a "story point" value.  The values assigned are usually taken from the Fibonacci sequence or:  1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13.  Story point values are similar  to the concept of "T-Shirt" ... [More]

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Software Engineering | Project Management | Agile

Translating Coordinates In Silverlight 2

by Aaron D-H 25. February 2009 19:11
When you are doing complex things to objects in Silverlight like aninmation of scale and rotation it is sometimes neccesary to be able to translate a point from the object that has been rotated and scaled into it’s parents coordinate system.  Luckly the Silverlight 2 dev team has a solu... [More]

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Software Engineering | .NET | C# | Silverlight

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I'd like to introduce myself to you... My name is Aaron Daisley-Harrison.  I have worked in the software engineering field for a number of years, and as an  Application Architect have created solutions for many industry verticals; worked with both Sun Microsystem and Microsoft technologies; Developed SQL database engines as well as full text search systems; and Knowledge management systems.   Most of my work is done out of the Pacific North West where I focus primarily on Fortune 500 companies.
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