December 2008
M T W T F S S
« Sep    
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031  

Recent Entries


My Bookshelf

Will It Fly

Will It Fly? How to Know if Your New Business Idea Has Wings...Before You Take the Leap


Label Thoughts

My Two Redesign Ideas for Mix 08

September 25th, 2008 | Wahyudi

Some times ago this year I was participating at the “Restyle Mix 08 Website contest”. Basically the contest is about redesigning the look of the Mix 08 conference website sponsored by Microsoft. One of the restriction for the redesign was that the designer/developer is not allowed to change the XHTML. So it is pure CSS […]

Summary View Pattern

August 7th, 2008 | Wahyudi

When I was designing the RFCUNY Web Payment Request system, one of the issue I found from the old design was there was no way to see what the user has entered in any of the four screens in creating a payment request. Each screen was a different page to avoid a long vertical form. […]

Agile Design - Iterate

August 3rd, 2008 | Wahyudi

One of the core idea of agile design and development is short iteration of delivering something the client. Right now I’m leading the web part of the redesign project of our personal application form system. It was a good start to have my design immediately approved by the project stakeholder. After a short conversation with […]

Any Cool Silverlight Design?

July 8th, 2008 | Wahyudi

Maybe it is not fair to compare Flash with Silverlight from the point of view of how each technology is being spread. What I mean by that is that Flash has been around much longer than Silverlight. The Flash adoption by User Interface designers is huge, while I think Silverlight at this time still a […]

RF CUNY eProcurement System

May 20th, 2008 | Wahyudi

We’ve just delivered another application to our client, this time the finance department. This application manages the procurement process of the company and will be used by the staffs within CUNY schools. This is a huge and mission critical application. Technology and framework we use: .Net using C# for the web and win form application, […]

Q&A With the NYTimes.com Design Director

April 23rd, 2008 | Wahyudi

Read this Q&A with the NYTimes.com Design Director and see how is design being managed in that big scale website.

My First Silverlight Mock-up

April 15th, 2008 | Wahyudi

So finally I started doing something with silverlight and showed it to some of our execs including the President of the company. In general they like the idea and want to go for it. You can see it here http://rfwebtst.rfcuny.org/RFMediaLibraryWeb/. The design and development took about 3 days (mostly to have something for the design) and it […]

Reload the Search with Silverlight.

April 15th, 2008 | Wahyudi

Yahoo! Japan redo how we do a search. The page is not up yet, but you can see the video here: http://www.microsoft.com/japan/products/expression/creatorsEX/gallery_y.html.

Visual Linq Query Builder

April 15th, 2008 | Wahyudi

More and more tools allow you to create application with less codes. Today I found this new add-on to help you work with LINQ query in Linq to SQL domain. Download it here.

Deploying Silverlight with DeepZoom

April 8th, 2008 | Wahyudi

I finally got my hand dirty with Silverlight and also DeepZoom Composer. My first project is a demo project for showcasing some of our conference rooms. After done with all design and development parts, I was stuck in the deployment of the web project to our IIS 6 server on Windows Server 2003. I was using […]

403 Error Conflict

February 19th, 2008 | Wahyudi

I was having a trouble assigning SSL to only a specific page inside an ASP .Net web application. We usually set a custom 403 page in IIS to other application, and we always do this in application level. But for only one page we found a problem since in the Web.config “CustomError” part, we didn’t […]

Really Cool Human Interaction Idea

January 7th, 2008 | Wahyudi

Visit this demo page of the new technology developed by Human Locator. This might be a new kind of advertising.

The Waiting Is Over

January 5th, 2008 | Wahyudi

Finally I got my Mac Book Pro last friday and I loved it. I wasn’t a hard decision which computer I wanted to get - after I sold my previous mac computer - particularly after Apple build its computer with Intel chip, and you can run Microsoft Windows on it. Yes Microsoft Windows, but why? […]

R.I.P Netscape Navigator

January 2nd, 2008 | Wahyudi

Well maybe not a suprising story, but when I was reading the post about it on Netscape Blog that they finally stop the support starting this year, it is official now that Netscape Navigator will rest in peace. Netscape has special place in my history as a web developer, not only because Netscape Navigator was the pioneer […]

.Net Beats Java

January 2nd, 2008 | Wahyudi

According to a survey conducted by Infotech, almost half of company they asked are developing their apps using .Net. For the article by InfoWorld.