Dave Ward
Dave Ward is an independent consultant in Atlanta, Georgia, specializing in creating functional, interactive web applications with ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With over fifteen years’ experience developing websites, he has been recognized as a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and a member of the ASP Insiders. He is co-author of the upcoming book jQuery for the ASP.NET Developer (Manning Publications, 2011).
Encosia | 25 Apr 2012 16:32
Dave Ward writes "....It’s probably an understatement to say that ASP.NET Web API has sparked a bit of debate about RESTful design lately. Web API’s new features like content negotiation, flexible media formatters, and improved JSON formatter are great, but..."
Read more » REST vs. RPC in ASP.NET Web API? Who cares; it does both.
Encosia | 09 Apr 2012 21:27
Dave Ward writes "....There’s been plenty of cynical talk going around about today’s news that Facebook is acquiring Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock. One of the most salient points is the simple arithmetic on how much Facebook is paying for each of..."
Read more » Facebook is retaining Instagram’s users, not acquiring them
Encosia | 03 Apr 2012 22:17
Dave Ward writes "....It’s been a few months since I began reviewing ASUS’ Zenbook UX31 based on day-to-day use, and it’s time to wrap the process up with a third and final post. The original plan for this series of reviews was that I’d write three posts about the..."
Read more » Someone should copy these 4 features from the Zenbook
Encosia | 21 Mar 2012 14:48
Dave Ward writes "....My take on the IE team's recent criticism of StatCounter's browser market share data.
Related posts:
Targeting WebKit is not like targeting IE6
Why PhoneGap 1.1.0 broke jQuery Mobile’s back button..."
Read more » Cooking the books is hard and doesn’t help anyone
Encosia | 13 Mar 2012 14:58
Dave Ward writes "....There’s been some confusing back and forth lately about ASP.NET Web API and JSON. During the time between the last WCF Web API preview and the current ASP.NET Web API beta, it’s clear that effort has gone into smoothing out some of..."
Read more » jQuery, ASP.NET Web API, and Json.NET walk into a bar…
Encosia | 05 Mar 2012 19:16
Dave Ward writes "....Note: If you haven’t read my initial impressions of the Zenbook, you might want to head over and read that first: The ASUS Zenbook UX31: Initial impressions I’ve been using my ASUS Zenbook for just over a month at this point, and..."
Read more » A month with my Zenbook UX31
Encosia | 17 Feb 2012 17:26
Dave Ward writes "....There’s been a bit of controversy lately concerning the rising dominance of WebKit-based browsers (e.g. Chrome, Safari, and Mobile Safari) and the potential that we’re repeating past mistakes: Not so long ago, IE6 was the over-dominant..."
Read more » Targeting WebKit is not like targeting IE6
Encosia | 16 Feb 2012 20:19
Dave Ward writes "....One of the hardest parts of being privy to NDA information is keeping my mouth shut about new developments that I wish I could share with you immediately, often for months at a time. Recent developments around ASP.NET Web API (formerly WCF Web API)..."
Read more » Web API is now part of ASP.NET (and you can get it today)
Encosia | 09 Feb 2012 16:46
Dave Ward writes "....I took part in The Code Project’s A Coder Interview series recently, and the result was published there yesterday. Terrence happened to send the questions at a rare moment when I wasn’t running in five directions at once, which led to me..."
Read more » Read my interview with The Code Project
Encosia | 25 Jan 2012 15:00
Dave Ward writes "....For over a year now, I’ve been using a 13” MacBook Air as my only laptop. Though it’s a bit underpowered and I prefer Windows to OS X, I was ultimately unable to resist Apple’s build quality compared to the Dell I had used previously. However, I..."
Read more » The ASUS Zenbook UX31: Initial impressions
