Its amazing how a little discipline can go a long way on a project.  Having the mettle to ensure that regardless of how tired you are you still take the time to write your code the proper way.  Running the code one more time and stepping through it just to be sure it really works and prove it to yourself.  Each of us has that little ...

Matt Goebel sat down with Larry Clarkin recently to do a podcat for The Thirsty Developer, which is a podcast that Larry and Dave Bost have started.  The topic of the discussion was globalization and localization in Windows Forms applications.  Matt has some very relevant experience from a Smart Client that he's ...

I sat down with Larry Clarkin recently to do a podcat for The Thirsty Developer, which is a podcast that Larry and Dave Bost have started.  Larry and Dave are both Developer Evangelists for Microsoft that I'm fortunate to interact with in the community. The topic of the discussion was in regards to Visual Studio Team Suite 2008 and some ...

I was recently engaged in discussions about the use of design patterns that resulted in my reflecting on projects I've seen where I judge design patterns to have been used successfully.  Design patterns can indeed add significant value to a solution and its long term viability and success.  They can also add a great deal of ...

Its continually amazing to me how discipline can go a long way to helping ensure a solution has long term maintainability.  Making sure you set parameters and agreed upon standards at the start of a project and then having the mettle to ensure that regardless of how tirelessly you're having to write code you take the time to stay ...

The Solutions Architecture blog is now officially back on track!  This will be my forum to hop up on a soap box about various technology related solutions and the involved architecture.  Architecture is one of those terms that is often used but has a different definition depending upon who you're asking and in what context.  But ...

As we were designing out the myColts.net site we went through a lot of possible design concepts. We were chasing after the ability to be able to support a site where you could radically changes the look or layout without a ton of effort. The Colts are in the entertainment business, so there is an extreme need to be fast and nimble and change on a ...

We were preparing for a semi-public beta of the myColts.net site.  Our focus is on trying to release as high of a quality site from the start so that users can focus on the usability of the site and overall experience and less on the functionality side.  The Crowe development team and Colts testing team has spent hours and hours testing ...

As we get closer to wrapping up the initial development on MyColts.net and releasing a public beta I was working out the design and implementation for the "Colts Cred" system.  The intent is to give away credibility points to people for various actions and help entice people to take desired action.  The first trick is to figure ...

One of the more complicated aspects of MyColts.net to implement is what we're calling friendlist security.  It allows you to control different views of your content and profile based on groupings you setup.  It gives you full control over who can see what information that you publish.  Thus, if your boss were to checkout your ...