I’m often asked to produce design documents for new applications. I can’t do this without discussing the advantages and disadvantages to each part of the design. A great way to do this is to focus on the desired qualities of the system you’re trying to build. Define the qualities you are trying to achieve, and [...]

The first pre-release of new ASP.Net MVC (ahem, Ruby-on-Rails for .Net) framework has just been made public. I find it really exciting that Scott Guthrie and his team are listening to what the people want. Webforms is really quite heavy, especially in comparison to Ruby on Rails, so by offering new frameworks Microsoft will gain [...]