Author Archives: Aaron Ransley

The Razor Templating Engine by Microsoft

By Aaron Ransley | Published: July 8, 2010
Microsoft has recently announced (and released, as part of WebMatrix) a new templating engine called Razor. Razor uses a parsing style which results in succinctly delineated template files. For example: This will output: the contents of the name variable the current year and a link to the details page for a particular product. Flow control [...]
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Loving iFixit’s Website

By Aaron Ransley | Published: April 3, 2010
Check out: http://www.ifixit.com There is something about this Web site that makes exploring fun. The content is laid out in a dense way, so your eyes are always “satisfied” with some bit of info or graphic. I could see some considering the layout crowded — “Woah man, where’s my whitespace?”. That’s not me, though. I [...]
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Automated Testing

By Aaron Ransley | Published: February 9, 2010
In the spirit of sharing, I’m going to talk a bit about how automated testing has stolen my heart. I’ve been working with some form of Web development for roughly 7 years now, but have had surprisingly little experience in maintaining a codebase over time. I’ve never liked this fact. Due to the one-off nature [...]
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Humanized Output

By Aaron Ransley | Published: February 3, 2010
Shown here is a snippet of the woot! homepage. I enjoy this little widget particularly because of the way excerpts from the forums are prefixed. The human readability of “[user] would like to know…”, “[user] reports back…”, and “[user] had some troubles with a…” is significant. Go organic with your Web application’s verbiage, especially in areas where [...]
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Website Launch: Girlboy Greetings

By Aaron Ransley | Published: January 31, 2010
I’ve just helped design a site for Girlboy Greetings! Girlboy Greetings is a small greeting card establishment from Los Angeles, CA. The designs are quirky and are offered in a variety of colors. My favorite aspect of the cards is how they offer glimpses of everyday thoughts and places. geek::facts(); I took a radically different [...]
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