Nicholas Barger's Blog

An Example of Writing Your Own Blog Engine (mini-version)

Preface: Obviously blog engines can be much more comprehensive than what I will be describing in this article. This is just something to show a few techniques to get you started.

Things To Do On a Rainy Day — Create Visual Studio Code Snippets

I’d like to write a few blog posts sprinkled in regarding great features, practices, methodologies, and other goodies that are often overlooked when under the gun to develop a project, but by knowing about them, and…

Tech Talk: NBAA

Recently, I began preparing a session for the NBAA conference in Orlando targeted at the aviation industry. I struggled identifying the needs of the audience since they were a bit different than I usually have the opportunity to speak to. The following article was not the presentation I gave, but an…

Book Review — Head First Object Oriented Analysis and Design

CSS Zen Garden

For years when trying to convey the power and pupose of CSS I’ve deferred to a single example; CSS Zen Garden. I’ve always been so impressed by the demonstation of this project and contributions from designers all over the world. The basis of CSS Zen Garden is to take the exact same HTML content, and…

Learning Knockout JS — Crazy Mom Baby Tracker Demo

I’m thrilled to be able to report my wife and I had our second daughter on May 8th, 2012. Vanessa was 7 pounds even and very healthy. Due to the birth, I took a few days off of work to help out (in many ways, I think I was more work for my…

More than one way to skin a cat… and a webpage

This is a multi-series blog posts regarding one of many ways to take a graphic design and convert it into HTML. This is the current method that I tend to use when doing fairly basic website designs.

Not Photoshop VS. Fireworks, Photoshop AND Fireworks

After a pretty lengthy discussion with my colleagues, all of which are developers and not graphic designers, I try and put a different spin on an old debate.