Yo, I’ll be back in Minneapolis for a week next month. I haven’t finalized the details yet, but it looks like the dates will be from Sunday, September 10 - Sunday, September 17. I am coming back for a Microsoft recruiting event at the U of MN. Hit...
Almost on a whim earlier tonight, I decided to rebuild my personal website from scratch. I backed up all of my content from Movable Type, installed a brand-new, spiffy copy of MT 3.31 onto my site’s root and a new database, and let ‘er rip. A few ...
(yeah ok, I haven’t quite figured out what innovation means to me yet. I’m still thinking about it.) Jensen Harris had an interesting post on his blog yesterday about what it took in Office 2003 to maintain the color schemes presented on Windows ...
Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror has a great writeup today on Fitts’s Law, which can help you conceptualize the amount of time needed to interact with a user interface (which doesn’t need to be the user interface of a computer; it applies just about e...
In some circles, it’s taken as a basic truth that certain companies have more innovativeness in their pinkies than other companies can muster among all of their 70,000 employees. I am firmly of the belief that this narrow perspective is flawed, at...
