Steven Hodson and Long Zheng wrote yesterday about whether Microsoft is becoming less open and transparent than they were a few years ago: the post-Robert Scoble era, as he put it. Apparently, a new position entitled Director of Windows Client Dis...
I discovered Oscar Alexander’s tutorial on snazzy HTML rounded buttons a while back, but needed it for something just a minute ago. It’s a fantastically easy way to create really attractive link buttons without much work and without using Javascri...
A while back, I created a table detailing every system color from every official Windows theme in existence. I keep moving or misplacing this page for some reason, but the link below works: Here’s the table of Windows system colors in its entire...
I’ve been using MooTools for the past month on a personal project, and I couldn’t be happier. In my new job, I’ve been boning up on my Prototype skillz. I certainly don’t mind Prototype, although I do find it to be a little heavy. The one thing th...
Up is down! White is black! Cats and dogs living in sin! Program Managers doing graphic design work! The horror! My friend Doug, one of our Product Managers on Visual Studio Express, contacted me in a bit of a panic a few weeks ago. It turns out ...
Girls who go "Woo!"
Love it or hate it, Twitter’s obviously on fire. Even though (or perhaps because) the idea is so ludicrously simple, there’s clearly a great deal of momentum behind the site and platform. It’s always helpful to be reminded that such things come fr...
The turkey is finishing up in the oven, the pie is made, the mashed potatoes are ready. I’m drinking a beer…Which means it’s clearly time to read TechMeme! My girlfriend (ok, she’s really the one who’s reading TechMeme, which is cool in its own ri...
About two weeks ago, I made the decision to leave Microsoft. It wasn’t an easy decision for me to make, but the opportunity I had handed to me was one I couldn’t easily pass up. I’m really going to miss my team; working on Popfly for the past year...
So, for the past hour I’ve been trying to figure out why a website I’m working simply fails to render on IE 6. I finally traced it down to a rogue button element, which appeared to be well-constructed but was still making IE 6 barf spectacularly. ...