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• Url progress with ASP.NET

  I'm much too busy to be blog reading...but here I am anyway, catching up on a few of Jon Udell's latest posts. I was happy to see " .aspx considered harmful ", which discusses why Urls should be minimal in order to be future proofed and to have the appropriate style/brand. He links to Scott Guthrie's October post about ASP.NET MVC Framework which "includes a very powerful URL mapping component that enables you to build applications with clean URLs". Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 7:41 AM from Rob Relyea | 0 Comments Filed under: Url

• Hyperlinks/Favorites are just middlemen for good Urls

  It isn't good enough to have a good set of links, those links need to be nice urls, so you don't need the middleman (the hyperlink/favorite). I've made my RobRelyea.com site more useful than it has been by making it a link directory for topics I care about. The information is more than just links, it is a set of URLs that will be easy to remember (for sharing or your own use). Each of the major topics on my site is Url addressable: Blog at robrelyea.com/blog Xaml at robrelyea.com/xaml Wpf at robrelyea.com/wpf Urls at robrelyea.com/urls* Data at robrelyea.com/data* Events at robrelyea.com/events Me at robrelyea.com/me* * - these aren't url adressable yet... Several of those topics also have subtopics which are Url addressable: wpf/apps at robrelyea.com/wpf/apps wpf/events/mix07 at robrelyea.com/events/mix07 This should make my life easier...as I'll be able to easily point people to information that I want to share. Read More... Posted Friday, June 01, 2007 10:36 AM from Rob Relyea | 0 Comments Filed under: Url

• WCF 3.5 to support REST

  The new WCF Web Programming Model supports REST Design UriTemplates look interesting...several good links inside that article... Read More... Posted Thursday, May 31, 2007 6:26 PM from Rob Relyea | 0 Comments Filed under: Url

• Guidelines for file names which are provided for download

  Most files posted for download have badly chosen file names: V11.1.0.5_VT_DRIVERS.zip An example, Vista "Problem Reports and Solutions" just pointed me towards a new network driver from Intel to improve stability. When I follow a link or two and begin downloading the file, the filename is: V11.1.0.5_VT_DRIVERS.zip. When I save that file locally, the file name makes it very tough to understand what the file is. Shouldn't driver downloads be named with the idea that they will be stored in a directory with other drivers and need to be distinguishable? Perhaps something more like: IntelPro-Wireless-3945ABG_V11.1.0.5_Drivers.zip (This isn't saying that Windows shouldn't do a better job of automating this procedure...) Setup.exe Similarly, application setup programs shouldn't be named "Setup.exe". Perhaps MyCoolAppName-1.5-Setup.exe. Guideline Imagine the lifecycle of the files you provide for download. What will your users want to do with it? Where will they store it? If Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 9:03 AM from Rob Relyea | 0 Comments Filed under: Url

• Microsoft Url Summit

  I'd like to have an internal get together of at least one person from each team @ Microsoft that impacts how we enable great URLs . What teams should work towards this goal together? Here is my initial list...who else is important to have in this quest? (where does Microsoft do bad URLs, and how can we help make it easier for you to have great URLs?) Authoring Tools Expression Web Office Live Writer Browsers IE Web Properties Live/MSN Spaces.Live.com Microsoft.com Blogs.Msdn.com Platforms IIS ASP.NET Sharepoint Read More... Posted Saturday, May 12, 2007 9:23 AM from Rob Relyea | 0 Comments Filed under: Url

• Navigating information using good URLs

  URLs, when well designed, provide another navigational choice through information. It is worth investing in design and specifying how applications and web sites use URLs. It should not be an implementation decision left up to a developer or designer at implementation time, as it too often is. I was please to find as I was composing " Mix07, TechEd, PDC - oh my! " that once I found the Mix URL, it was relatively easy to find the 2 other URLs. Well kind of... Mix07 - http://microsoft.com/events/mix TechEd - http://microsoft.com/events/teched2007 PDC - http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc Issues: How do I find the Mix06 site? No idea. How do I find the Teched06 site? teched2006 redirects to teched2007. Why is PDC available on MSDN, but not also Microsoft.com? When I navigate to Mix07 or TechEd's link, why do they show me "/default.mspx" at the end of the URL? Interesting questions about how event sites should deal with old content, should be findable, etc... My Take I'd Read More... Posted Thursday, March 29, 2007 6:09 AM from Rob Relyea | 0 Comments Filed under: Url

• Url Centric Design

  I believe that websites need to become more focused on Url centric design. It is not just the UI that Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 02, 2006 3:19 PM from Rob Relyea | 0 Comments Filed under: Url