April 2010
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.NET & NOLOH – what ASP.NET should have been ...
When I first started out with NOLOH, I had a requirement to build a fairly demanding web application. Right here and now, I have a confession to make. Currently, my NOLOH development work is my “evening job”. In my day job, I’m a .NET C# developer. I have done a lot of Rich UI development (Winforms/WPF) but in recent years, my emphasis has been more towards component and framework development for...
March 2010
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A NOLOH Refresher - Oh, And Just One More Thing!
The NOLOH guys recently presented at Confoo. As you may recall, I’ve been using NOLOH for just over a year and in that time, have become used to the awesome power that is available for very little effort on the developer’s part. However, it was really refreshing to see NOLOH co-founder Asher Snyder put NOLOH through its paces in a fast moving demo that reminded me of just why NOLOH is so cool and...
February 2010
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Ajax Without Javascript - How's That Possible?
I recently decided to create a new custom class called “ImageLink”. This is a NOLOH Link class extended to do more “tricks” with images. The main use-case was to be able to specify (in NOLOH parlance) “out” and “over” graphics as background images and have the Text value of the Link CSS text-indented using a negative offset. The real requirement was so that I could use fonts of my...
Ajax for the Enterprise - Look No Further
I was interested to see an article from Dr. Dobb’s that essentially reinforces the long-standing design semantics espoused by NOLOH and its fanatical developers. You can find the article I am referring to here.
Whilst the platform it references is Java based, the message is somewhat similar. NOLOH has long since emphasised the advantage of a server based approach to web development.
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Nuggets for Noppets
Welcome to my inaugural post on a blog primarily about a really fantastic web technology that I discovered about a year ago called NOLOH (http://www.noloh.com).
NOLOH stands for “Not One Line of HTML” and it really delivers on this promise. However, NOLOH is the proverbial “Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing”, making the complex ridiculously simple whilst “under the...