Design Patterns - Part 4 published- September 17, 2008 Part 4 of the design patterns series I have been writing has just been published on DotNetSlackers . This part covers the singleton pattern. View it - Design Patterns - Part 4 Originally posted at http:msmvps.comblogsgbarnett . Please post all comments there. Thanks, Granville. Read More......(read more)http://weblogs.asp.net/gbarnett/archive/2008/09/17/design-patterns-part-4-published.aspx Don't Tell Me "How", Tell me "What"- September 17, 2008 During a discussion with our project manager earlier today, I used the phrase "Don&39;t tell me how you want it to work, tell me what you want it to do" We were discussing user stories , and I was trying to get across what I wanted to see on a story card, and what I didn&39;t want to see. He had put a story card on the wall that read: On the login screen: Should be a username box Should be a password box Should be a change password link Should be a remember me link Should be a...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Devlicious/~3/395149551/don-t-tell-me-quot-how-quot-tell-me... Custom Formatters for YUI DataTable- September 17, 2008 In a prior posting ( here ) I walked through how to add the YUI DataTable to your site. Today I thought I would take that a step further and explain how to create custom formatters so your grid can look all fancy and stuff. A custom formatter is a way to define a layout for the DataTable. There are built in formatters, but you can also define your own. Here are the list of built in formatters (found in YUI docs): "button" points to YAHOO.widget.DataTable.formatButton...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Devlicious/~3/395130283/custom-formatters-for-yui-datatable... C World Of Warcraft Armory Library 0.1- September 17, 2008 Since I started playing World of Warcraft again, I&39;ve taken a bit more of a developer approach to it this time, and after founding a little casual guild , I decided to create a site for it. However, I&39;m a lazy developer, I don&39;t intend to update the site regularly whenever someone joins or leaves the guild. Also because I&39;m quite geeky when it comes to statistics , and a bit of a theory crafter , I planned to populate our guild site with lots of stats. Where else would be a better...http://weblogs.asp.net/cumpsd/archive/2008/09/17/6629309.aspx Modified MVC AccountController for Preview 5- September 17, 2008 I just downloaded the ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 bits from Codeplex and started on my first experiment . One of the first things I did was to modify the default AccountController to use the new Form Posting and Form Validation features of the Preview 5, somebody probably overlooked updating those :) If anyone else wants the reworked code, feel free to copy paste . Note this was something done during lunch break in a hurry, it seems to all work logically, but it&39;s possible I&39;ll have to tune it..http://weblogs.asp.net/cumpsd/archive/2008/09/17/6629304.aspx |