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I’ve been adding custom fields to our web API at work and thought I’d share some ideas that came up. Use metadata to automate as much as you reasonably can; eg being able to interrogate an object to find out what calls are available and who may call them is pretty handy. Make it easy for clients [...]

How often do you design user interfaces? Some of us don’t need to work with them much. Others have professional designers to do UI design for them. For the rest of us, well at least creating a User Interface is easy these days. Creating a Usable Interface on the other hand can be quite a [...]

I recently picked up a copy of Mike Gunderloy’s book, “Coder To Developer”. The title grabbed me right away because it’s exactly what this site is about! Reading it in fragments of time between work and home commitments, I was actually excited to try things after reading each chapter. The bulk of the book is [...]