All Blog Posts (Page 50) | Aaron Brethorst

Jun 18, 2007

overheard in seattle

It's like doing a bodyshot, but with a cracker; a low-fat cracker! – Anonymous

Jun 18, 2007

Mark Johnston tells you what you need to know about Silverlight

Mark Johnston, a Microsoft developer evangelist in the UK, has a bunch of great Silverlight-related content up that covers topics like: The fundamentals Animations and Javascript programming 1.1 debugging A 1 line of code video player...

Jun 14, 2007

Popfly

Come get your fresh, updated Popfly!

It hasn’t even been a month since we launched Popfly, but we already finished our first batch of updates for the site with a ton of new features! We have some notes up on our team blog about the new features; here’s an abbreviated list of my favor...

Jun 13, 2007

Windows

Build Outlook 2007' UI in WPF - Hand-on Lab

I just heard about a fantastic hands-on lab you can download that walks you through building a replica of Outlook 2007’s user interface in WPF. It’s fantastic to see such detailed, useful examples of building Avalon content finally coming out. Bei...

Jun 11, 2007

Web Design

How to make yourself look unprofessional

I was just reading a truly bizarre (yet oddly heartwarming) story on MSNBC about how a deaf mother dolphin and her newborn calf are getting along at a marine mammal rehabilitation center in the Florida Keys, but I was terribly disheartened to disc...

Jun 09, 2007

Web Design

Raaum on Rails

Alright, so I’ll readily admit this has nothing to do with UI Design. Nevertheless, if you’re trying to slog your way through the Ruby on Rails API documentation or official wiki you may be much better served checking on Ryan Raaum’s excellent pri...

Jun 07, 2007

Popfly

Rocky Horror, Lolz and Popfly: Together at Last

I just found a wonderfully amusing adaptation of Rocky Horror, as if scripted by lolcatz. Naturally, I decided to wrap it up with a Popfly mashup, which you can see through this link (toucha toucha toucha touch me!). Creating this Popfly mashup wa...

Jun 05, 2007

Web Design

How Fake Steve Jobs Made Me Look Weird(er)

I’m writing specs for our next Popfly iteration at the Starbucks down the street from my apartment, and decided to take a quick break by reading through my email and news feeds (sorry, I can’t tell you what the specs cover). I came across one post...

Jun 02, 2007

Web Design

EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK: Digg adds new categories!!!

I have secret inside word that Digg is about to release an update to their site featuring new categories that will help their users find the topics they care about the most that much quicker! Check it out: now you no longer have to go hunting to f...