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In early October, Microsoft released the beta version of ASP.NET MVC framework that implements a pure MVC architectural pattern in contrast to the “Web-forms” model supported in standard ASP.NET. Last week, I spent time investigating ASP.NET MVC and want to share what interesting things and principles are built in the framework.

When Apple announced Spaces for Leopard, I was not that excited. I’ve never been a fan of Virtual Desktops because I thought they would just distract rather than offer any use. You know, another one of these neat looking toy features.

I was so wrong.

Most websites store a large number of media files. It may be photos, audio, video files etc. Of course that data takes up a lot of space on the server and, even more important, its eats your bandwidth and server resources. When we were working on Nuzizo we were faced with this problem. In order to improve performance, we setup an automated system using asp.net and Amazon S3.

Communication is the mantra of two of my long-time feeds. Proper communication of your actions adds tremendous value to your work. Without good communication skills you’re nothing but a lone ‘hacker’ doing stuff for yourself. And what can be better than talking with the team without leaving your favorite text editor/IDE?

We’re excited to announce our latest client design project, isFeasting. Randy at Umlatte asked Wildbit to create the design, layout, and workflow for this simple, but really fun, application. So, what is it? isFeasting is simple: Every time you eat something, take a picture and email it to the site. The picture and title will [...]

Recently Ilya asked me about good looking wallpapers for desktop. I decided that it would be nice to have a “big screen” companion to our iPhone wallpapers and designed this set for real fans.

I love new technology. Since I always wanted to try out Sinatra, my Unobtrusive JavaScript presentation on our retreat seemed like a perfect fit. Wouldn’t it be nice to not use Keynote for this? Why not just present it in the browser?

We were using many different bug tracking systems in the past, but none of them suited our needs. Some of them were too complex, some did not have features which we needed, but mainly most of them weren’t easy to use with easy overview of tasks. Besides bug tracking system, we were using basecamp from 37signals mainly for messaging and for simple todo lists. Recently basecamp was updated with cool new features, and our team decided to try it out for project management – bug tracking too.

I will show you how we use basecamp :