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ASP.NET MVC (Model View Controller) is getting a lot of attention (and love) from various developers on social media sites (such as Twitter ). I had to ask one of our developers to get his perspective on what MVC really means in layman’s terms. MVC is simply one streamlined methodology to achieve...
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From Wordpress to Movable Type to Community Server, there are so many platforms to choose from. It comes down to needs and your business processes. If you’re a small tech company tucked in a corner somewhere in Hollywood, you may just have one person maintaining and contributing content;...
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Wed, Dec 24 2008
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Filed under: ecommerce, ASP.NET, customer service, Customer Service 2.0, CMS, blogging, community server 2008, blogging engine, blogs, wordpress, blogengine.net, community server, graffiti, asp.net 2.0, movable type
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It's December 15th, 10 days before Christmas, and here at Mediachase, we have an early gift for you: a brand new release and build (166) of ECF G5. Of course, ECF G5 was officially released a few months back, but in tech, that's an epoch ago. ECF G5 since then includes further enhancements, features...
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Filed under: ecommerce framework, ecommerce framework g5, ecommerce, architecture, asset management system, ASP.NET, Announcement, multi-channel, CMS, Content Management System, ECF g5, web development, ECF G5 Launch, Lucene, eCommerce Development, Open Source, Lucene.NET, ASP.NET eCommerce Framework 5.0, Application framework, ecommerce platform, ecommerce architecture, christmas, ecommerce performance, ECF G5 Performance, cloud computing, ecommerce solution, eCommerce technology, amazon.com, back end, ecf 5.0 demo, ecf g5 demo, asp.net ecommerce framework g5, ecf 5.0, sandbox demo, demo environment, sandbox, open-source, cms framework, cloud storage, amazon s3, digital asset management system, amazon web services, quartz.net engine, job scheduler, search index service, job scheduling, quartz, multi site ecommerce, multi site functionality, logging libraryu, common.logging .net, common logging framework, log files, trial demo, content workflow, digital downloads, digital download, logging library, enterprise ecommerce
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I’ve touched on mobile commerce so many times that you’re probably as sick of it as election coverage . But, don’t you dare barf out the good stuff mobile commerce has going for it. If you have a cell phone, in particular a web-enabled one, you can reap the benefits of shopping for Chanel on a 1.8” 65K...
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Thu, Oct 30 2008
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Filed under: mobile commerce, ASP.NET, web applications, Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5, mobile web sites, mobile ecommerce, MSDN, web app, mobile applications, mobile web applications
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When you’re dealing with hundreds, thousands, or million of products in a catalog, eCommerce developers need to integrate powerful search capabilities within their eCommerce products. Enter Lucene, or in this case, Lucene.NET. Lucene is an open source “information retrieval” library meant for Internet...
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Yes, you read that right. I stumbled upon Iceberg , a web-based development tool for building business apps. Right now, you can download a CRM tool, a bug tracker, and a vacation management app, all built using Iceberg. And even better, Iceberg is an ASP.NET web app, so this post actually caters to my...
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Scott Hanselman of .NET fame developed a little web tool called smallestdotnet that sniffs your browser agent and detects which version of the .NET framework you have installed on your computer. The tool then suggests the smallest download possible to update to the latest version (.NET Framework 3.5...
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From Flash, to AJAX web forms, to personalized shopping, and countless other eCommerce buzz words, this ain't your Daddy's eCommerce anymore . But that doesn't mean newer equals better. We all have an idea of what a real eCommerce site or platform should be or look like. That's why, for...
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The iPhone is a fairly popular device, some would say . And the next iteration is sneaking in sometime in the middle of the month. But what does a niche device like the iPhone mean for ASP.NET developers? In the case of mobile web application development, a lot. Even if the iPhone doesn't sell like...
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Getting Microsoft to comply with web standards is like pulling teeth sometimes, but at least IE8 is trying to become the standard bearer for, well, standards. But to Microsoft's credit, they've included CSS and Javascript in their development tools and have made it easy for developers to integrate...
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The Microsoft-supported .NET Reference Source project enables developers to dig into the .NET Source from within VS, turning it into an indispensable tool for chronic debuggers. Shawn Burke offers a detailed tutorial on how to set up .NET Reference Source in Visual Studio 2008. Debuggers can specifically...
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A company wants its websites to be relevant and stand out amongst the glut of other companies with the same intentions. SEO is a relatively easy way to make a Google search of ".NET eCommerce blog" appear at the highest possible ranking. The content you offer ultimately wins out, but strong...
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Ultimately, for developers (and any other working stiff out there), it's about getting the job done well in less time. For web application developers, there are numerous languages and tools to choose from to get that app out the door. From Ruby, to Java, and to our personal favorite, ASP.NET, there...
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I stumbled upon a gem of .NET goodness after perusing my exhaustive list of Google Reader XML feeds. Visual WebGui , as I discovered, is an open source rapid application development framework, or RAD, that is purposely tailored for developers to create enterprise AJAX applications in no time flat--literally...
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One of the major new features of .NET Framework 3.5 is integration with LINQ (Language Integrated Query) , a database querying component for .NET that mimics SQL syntax. LINQ makes it easier to write up code, rather than use Visual Basic or C# for SQL; it was touted by Microsoft PR to be the "No...