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  creativeUI 

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  Man it has been crazy busy as of late…lots of projects…not enough time. Sorry for the lack of articles!! Ok…so one of my latest projects has been a bit different. They have an old Access database that ... they have been using for years as an admin tool to keep track of their clients. A lot of work has been put into this system so they didn’t want to throw it away, but at the same time they wanted to ease the load of the admins by allowing the clients to update their own information over the web. So basically what they needed was a website that talked to their server and updated their info behind the scenes. Sounds like a job for web service right? Yup, but times are changing with the whole MS web service thing…with .NET 3 and 3.5 the new concept of WCF has been introduced. Now WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) can do A LOT of different stuff, but today I am going to give a quick lesson on how to setup and use WCF services in place of a traditional web service. Its not all that tricky,   [More...] [Less...]

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  A List Apart: Articles: Sign Up Forms Must Die 

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  We are pleased to present an excerpt from Chapter 13 of Luke Wroblewski’s forthcoming book (Rosenfeld Media, 2008). — Ed. I’ll just come out and say this: sign-up forms must die. In the introduction to ... this book I described the process of stumbling upon or being recommended to a web service. You arrive eager to dive in and start engaging and what’s the first thing that greets you? A form. We can do better. In fact, I believe we can get people engaged with digital services in a way that tells them how such services work and why they should care enough to use them. I also believe we can do this without explicitly making them fill out a sign-up form as a first step. But before we get into the potential of gradual engagement (your path out of sign-in “dullery”), let’s look at how the process of engaging with an online service typically works. Since 2007 was a breakout year for online video, it’s safe to assume a lot of people went on the web to post one of their videos. Perhaps they heard   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 26 March 2008, by: Jakub Uradnik  [Report as spam]

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