With mobile getting all the love lately, I thought I would give back to the desktop community. I showed how to build a mobile web app using Sencha Touch 2 and MVC. Now I will do the same with a desktop web app using Ext JS.

Below is a miniature demo consisting of products, categories, and manufacturers. It is a real MVC-licious Javascript app written in Ext JS 4.1:

Let us dissect this app into the following sections: routing, controllers and views. I will leave out models and stores because they are pretty self-explanatory when you see the ...

Few things are more disappointing to an ASP.NET programmer than this one line of code in a web.config:

You probably know what I mean if you’ve ever been asked to implement user sessions for a web site that has ASP.NET’s built-in session state disabled.  In this post I will offer one simple alternative that allows you to implement user sessions on just such a web site.

Cookies Taste Better In-Memory

The secret to my solution is HTTP cookies.  In my experience, programmers are increasingly afraid to create sites that require cookies because ...