Good Stuff #1

Friday, December 07 2007

Ok, call me an idiot. I am doing it again. If you have been reading this blog for awhile you might remember when I used to post the .NET Nightly on a regular basis. I have been thinking about doing another link style post, and what the heck, why not? This is the first one of those posts. These posts won't be .NET specific, but more about just whatever cool stuff I have come across that day.

  • seeed - a place to discuss the business of web applications.
  • 20 tools for web application development - good list, pretty close to my own. (which I will post one of these days) (via KevinF)
  • Google Chart API - looks interesting, but all the cool people are using flash charts now like these.
  • Microsoft Live Labs Volta - write a .NET client app and then post it to the web, or don't waste your time and just write a web application in the first place. (seriously, there have been 3rd party folks doing this for years)

I am making no commitments, this might be the only one. :) I tried to get del.icio.us to just automatically post my links, but it doesn't seem to work with subText (or I have it configured wrong)

-James

Comments

#1 Steven Harman on 12.07.2007 at 5:37 PM

Hey buddy,
amCharts looks nice... but that wouldn't work too well for an open source project or demo/sample applications.

I'm thinking of building a small and quick sample application on mvc.net, and then rebuilding it on MonoRail for a little compare/contrast and I'm going to need some graphing functionality. So, do you think the Google Graphs are a good fit for such a project?

Oh, and I'd open source the code, naturally.

#2 JAmes avery on 12.07.2007 at 6:03 PM

Yeah, very true. amCharts wouldn't be good for open source. I would definitely give Google Graphs a go for one of those type of things.

#3 Steven Harman on 12.10.2007 at 5:22 PM

Just thought you might like to check out a Google Charts API: an ASP.NET 2.0 Server Control. :)

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