Are You Designing for Bigfoot?

ekampf.com — Change your team's terminology and work in terms of personas and goals. Rather than thinking of users as an abstract, difficult-to-describe, amorphous group of people, personas instruct us to talk about specific users who have names, personalities, needs, and goals. Understanding exactly who the users are and what they do with the software is essential to determine if a certain feature is actually required. read more...

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Microsoft and Yahoo! ... Revisited...

ekampf.com — It seems like Microsoft and Yahoo! are talking again to such an extent that is was either required, or in Microsoft's interest to release the following statement... read more...

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Developing a Robust Data Driven UI Using WPF - The DataModel

ekampf.com — In the first post in the series I gave an overview of the pattern we'll be using. This post will go deeper into the DataModel, as defined in the previous post: The DataModel is defined exactly as the Model in MVC; it is the data or business logic that stores the state and does processing of the problem domain. The DataModel abstracts expensive operations such as data fetching without blocking the UI thread. It can keep data "alive" fetching it periodically from source (example: stock ticket), merge information from several sources etc. The DataModel is completely UI independent and pretty much straightforward to unit test. The DataModel exposes data in a way that makes it easily consumable by IBF. read more...

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Developing a Robust Data-Driven UI Using WPF - Introduction.

ekampf.com — First post in a series. Discusses patterns for data-driven UI development in WPF. read more...

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Microsoft to Make a Significant Announcement

ekampf.com — icrosoft got Steve Ballmer, Ray Ozzie, the SVP of the Servers and Tools Business and the SVP of Legal and Corporate Affairs announcing something "significant". The only reason I can think of for having a lawyer on call is if the announcement is about an acquisition or licensing. Maybe something regarding open source? read more...

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Short Introduction to Powershell

ekampf.com — A short introduction to Powershell... read more...

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Duet: An Enterprise S+S Offering From Microsoft And SAP

ekampf.com — The Strategic Architect Forum (SAF) conference was hosted at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond over three days during November 2007. All the keynotes and informational sessions are available for download at the SAF recorded sessions site. Be sure to check out the Duet: An Enterprise S+S Offering From Microsoft And SAP session"... read more...

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Uninstalling Previous Versions of Visual Studio 2008

ekampf.com — Here are the instructions to follow before you install Visual Studio 2008 RTM. read more...

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