Vitaly's WebLog
Writing on software development and all related

Isolating UI from Middle Tier

October 20, 2008
  One, if not the main, principle of the good architecture is its openness against 'possible' changes. It can be viewed on different abstraction levels - some classes can be open for some changes in business logic, entire layers may be designed to be open for global changes like ... [More]

Finnish creativity

April 18, 2008
I'm astonished by this finnish site. I have no idea what it about is but its design ideas are suberb. Do not forget to stop :-)

PicLens - Good example of zoomable 3D UI

April 16, 2008
If you did not see PicLens, I strongly suggest taking a look at it. This is free add-on for your browser that will add rich and interactive UI for a number of web sites that host images and video. I've just downloaded it and played a bit with it. It looks just great!

Adobe Photoshop Express - is it Photoshop really?

March 31, 2008
When I read blog post about Adobe launching free and online version of their flagman product, Photoshop, I was just able to say "wow". Everyone says now that future of software is online versions that do not need to be installed on PC. There are several interesting examples of such model... [More]

.NET Framework Programming Model for Add-Ins

March 24, 2008
It seems that there is still lot to learn about .NET Framework 3.5. I've found today (thanks to Daniel Moth) that is one more interesting feature was added in .NET Framework - Programming Model for Add-Ins. Basically, it allows you to build application that can be extended by add-ins. You may ... [More]

Expression Studio 2 Beta Release

March 5, 2008
In addition to Silverlight 2 Beta 1 that is made available yesterday, another great product's new version was made available for download. That is beta version of Expression Studio 2. The application suite that is going to help graphic designers and developers working together. The suite inclu... [More]