In my world in a typical small size web development project there are 3 main roles of (implementation) participants: designer, html/css coder, business logic coder. But it seems that nowadays the trend is to combine designers and html coders into one role.

What do people get from attending various technology user groups? This post tries to outline how it looks from the outside.

Every time I read a C# book or an article or just a code sample in MSDN I can't stop wondering why don't people use this qualifier unless it's absolutely required? What do we sacrifice code readability for?

Recently there was quite a storm in web development community about a move by popular JavaScript framework ExtJS. They've changed their licensing scheme from LGPL/commercial to GPL/commercial. These are my 2 cents on the situation and how to prevent it in your open source endeavors.

A story about good print designers designing web sites and not wanting to learn a thing

In the first two parts of the series we've learned how to add a simple pie chart to your pages and how to bind the chart to real data. This time we will learn the way of making the chart reload it's data in specified intervals and see more options for visual customization.

AmCharts are very customizable and flexible Adobe Flash charts. However generating data and modifying settings on the fly requires a substantial amount of data transformations and XML generation. This is where "ASP.NET Controls for amCharts" step in. This set of ASP.NET controls allows .NET developers to work with amCharts as they would normally do with any native data-bound ASP.NET controls.

Today I was playing with Gmail's IMAP implementation and Outlook 2007/Pocket Outlook. My next thought was: I want the same for my RSS!