Yell At Your Desk

I've been continuing my exploration of MS Expression 4 and I continue to be impressed by its features. Particularly of interest is its ability to prototype applications/websites using Sketchflow. Sketchflow essentially allows you to design the overall layout and add some basic functionality to move through the program and demonstrate its functionality. This quick example I threw together took about 5 mins, which gives a good idea of the speed at which you can create prototypes.Full story »

Today I was on a bit of a UI customization spree and came across the brilliant CircleDock Project ( Link ). Unfortuantly it is no longer under active development. More out of proof of concept I went about putting together a quick prototype. It's a little unpolished but all the fundamental code is there.

Because I am starting a new job soon, my programming focus has had to change slightly. I now shall be focusing more on WPF and more specifically WPF Browser Applications. While doing my research I came across the Microsoft Expression app. This application allows you to design fantastic custom user interfaces and lead to some fantastic results.  

 

I have continued to work on the stock management system I currently have in development and with the majority of the backend completed I have started to implement the system's functionality. This module is the part of the system which allows the user to manage stock requests for customers. It consists of a main page providing an overview of incoming and outgoing requests and two sub-pages which assist in making the requests. I still need to add in the ability to filter the results pulled from the database and a few other bits and pieces before this is complete however.

In the couple of hours I had to work on it tonight I finally completed the database for my new site and started to implement some functionality into the front end. I used an SQL view to combine the data from three tables to display current stock levels of each store location in the database. So far its not pretty but I plan on tying it into high charts to make it a tad more visual.