Category: .NET

XSLT Crash Course, anyone?

This will be fun---at least for me!

Ah, the joys of reuse... but beware of productization

After I have decided to go for the localization tool (I find it difficult to blog about it without having a proper name for it first—usually, apart from my dubious company name, naming is not one of my weaknesses), I moved a great deal of the codebase of my other product development into a separate DLL for reuse. That class library, dubbed AuthorBase, now provides a pretty complete framework to easily and quickly create the scaffolding for an application that has some or all of the following requirements:

A Micro-ISV diversion

While I continue developing my other major software product I have after a few hours of pondering decided to start developing another one concurrently. This one will be purely open-book development: I will blog about the whole process, gather feedback and ideas from others all the time, and hope to attract a small number of people interested in the tool and test-driving it for their own needs.

Non-modal user interface

The user interface of the new product that I am currently working on will be almost completely non-modal. This is of course only a minor feature, a goodie, rather than its unique value proposition.  ;)