Even though Windows may be the platform that everyone loves to hate, the simple truth of the matter is that it still has market share somewhere north of 90%. Additionally, when it's all said and done, Windows is actually a fantastic platform to de...
I’m walking down the street to Victrola Coffee yesterday from my apartment. It’s 5pm on a Saturday, and all of the crazies are out…including my new personal favorite: a gay man wearing a towel on his head and a dress. His story goes something like...
I just upgraded my blog from Movable Type 3.2 to 3.3, and I appear to be running into a few issues. Hopefully, this post will find the isues resolved. Otherwise, I may just give it up and migrate to Wordpress (like I should’ve done a while ago :-P...
Update: I have split this entry into a full category, which you can find at http://www.brethorsting.com/uidesign/books/. Future updates will end up in this category. I’ve spent a good deal of time over the years reading books on UI Design, User E...
Ajax = Chocolate = Happiness, and so we knew, when we started planning FogBugz 5.0, that Ajax features would be an important part of this release. FogBugz 4½ and Subjective Well-Being - Joel on Software Joel Spolsky, one of my favorite autho...
Not only do state changing links cause problems for robots, users who are accustomed to having links drive navigation can become confused when links are used to drive application state changes. Alex Bosworth's Weblog: Ajax Mistakes Alex Bosw...
Anyone reading this is probably aware of my, um, bias, towards Windows applications. With that in mind, Tim Sneath, a technical evangelist for the WPF stack in .NET FX 3.0 talks about how to add Aero Glass to the client region of a Windows Forms a...
I’m Aaron Brethorst, a Program Manager, software developer, HCI junkie, and a wicked Astropop player. Currently, I work for Microsoft as the User Experience Program Manager for the Developer Division, creators of Visual Studio, the .NET Framework,...
All we get in Seattle are 60 year old, five foot tall punk lesbians, midgets hitching a ride on the back of wheelchairs, and Link… No, Seriously – Let’s Hit It <p>Old Chinese lady: Ex-see-cus-see me. Old Chinese lady: Ex-see-cus-see me! Gangsta:...
I received some feedback on a document I wrote recently. The commentor stated: You can’t have a sentence with two colons in it. It just isn’t done. Make it two sentences. Or three. Maybe four. Sigh.