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I was browsing through this blog’s profile on Technorati a few minutes ago when I noticed that someone (besides myself) had marked this as a favorite. Feeling pleased, I decided to see who it was: turns out that Tantek Çelik, CTO of Technorati, W3...
The single most beautiful thing I have ever borne witness to was a Sigur Ros concert in Seattle back in May 2006. There’s a point in one of their songs, entitled viðrar vel til loftárása, where the lead singer, Jónsi, pauses mid-lyric, holding his...
I’m off to not-so-warm-and-sunny San Francisco until Tuesday night. I may have time and opportunity to post, but I’m not counting on it. See y’all Wednesday at the latest! In the mean time, go take a look at the following blogs I read on a regula...
Back in Winter 2004/2005, I spent an entire month cleaning up an RC file that defined over 100 dialogs used in Visual Studio. I scoured our codebase to determine whether the dialog was still in use, removed it if it wasn’t, ensured that the UI met...
For those of you browsing the site directly, you may notice that things look a little…strange today. I’m playing around with the templates and trying to convert the site over to a three-column layout. There are a few things not behaving like they ...
I, like many of you, spend most days thinking about how to put forth the most professional and attractive experience possible in my software. I used to think that as long as I could create high-quality, professional-looking software with a fantast...
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,...
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