Ben Griswold on May 11th, 2009

I was just speaking with a coworker about the tool I used to mockup screens in a recent requirements document.  If you aren’t familiar with Balsamiq Mockups, you are missing out.  Maybe you are responsible for application UI design or you simply like to sketch out your screens before you develop them?  If so, take [...]

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Ben Griswold on August 5th, 2008

I am currently on the bench at work waiting for my next assignment to start up in a few days.  Rather than sit around, read blogs and listen to podcasts, I’m keeping myself busy by putting together the beginnings of a code library to be shared across our development team.  Yesterday I started the foundation.  [...]

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Ben Griswold on November 18th, 2007

This may be yesterday’s news, but if you are looking for a reliable (and free) PDF converter, may I suggest PrimoPDF?  I have been using it for months to convert my Word documents to PDF and it is great.  Here’s a bit more: PrimoPDF is a free tool for high-quality PDF creation, comprising a user-friendly [...]

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Ben Griswold on November 3rd, 2006

A couple of years back, I was tasked with compiling C# coding standards for our development department.  To be honest, I wasn’t all that excited about the assignment.  Previous attempts had been met with quite a bit of resistance and worthless debate and I wasn’t sure I really wanted to open that can of worms again.  After [...]

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