Posted on September 28th, 2011 by Chris
I like JavaScript, and I like jQuery, and I am always interested in improving my skills with those tools. So when I found out that jQuery’s latest conference was going to be held in Boston, less than an hour’s drive from where I live, and that a good friend of mine was going to be [...]
Posted on August 19th, 2011 by Chris
Wow, it’s been two weeks since the last BlogShouts update, but that doesn’t mean we’ve stopped working on the site. Not by a long shot! We’ve pushed out a bunch of new fixes and features, including at least one thing that wasn’t even on the list of pending features. To quote Captain Willard, from Apocalypse [...]
Posted on August 5th, 2011 by Chris
It’s been another busy period over here at Dart. We’ve been working hard to take BlogShouts from ULTRA BETA to plain ol’ beta, and I think we’ve just about hit that point. This is exciting, because it means we get to really ramp up our efforts to attract bloggers to the site. We’ve got 220+ [...]
Posted on July 25th, 2011 by Chris
We’ve been rolling out features, fixes and improvements to BlogShouts right and left for the past ten days, so I thought I’d do another update on what’s happening with the site. I love the tech we’re using — it’s really made it a breeze to quickly change the site. Sometimes we roll out two, three, [...]
Posted on July 15th, 2011 by Chris
Welcome to what I hope is a recurring column here on the Dart Blog, where we talk about the features, fixes and enhancements we’ve recently added to BlogShouts, and take a look at what we think is coming up in the next week or so. As mentioned in the last entry, we’ve launched Blog Shouts [...]
Posted on April 19th, 2011 by Chris
I have to admit, even though the MVC concept has been around for a long time, I had never really heard of it before Microsoft chose to adopt it for ASP.Net. This is mainly because I’m not a programmer, and also because I haven’t worked extensively with Ruby on Rails, which from what I understand [...]
Posted on December 28th, 2010 by Chris
When you spend the better part of fifteen years working on the web, you encounter a lot of technologies. In 1997, it was HTML 3 and PERL 5. Lately it’s been ASP.Net web forms and a lot of JavaScript (and that’s one hell of an improvement). One of the goals Gabe and I have for [...]