Aaron Brethorst (Page 198)

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Aug 16, 2003
Personal Life

Cockups and 1.1

So iRooster 1.0 was supposed to go live on Friday. Unfortunately, due to one of those Murphy’s Law-sort-of-things, my account rep at esellerate left the office early on thursday because he felt sick, and never came in on friday. oh well. That’s li...

Aug 11, 2003
iRooster

eSellerate

The Mac OS X shareware application that I have been working on, iRooster, is done. Well, that is, except for the lovely business of integrating the eSellerate engine into it. I have to say, the eSellerate people have been really cool, and really h...

Aug 11, 2003
iRooster

Just about 1.0

Ok, almost there. I think I crossed the last big hurdle with getting iRooster ready for official 1.0 GM status. This is cool: my first real piece of shipped software (beating out this wee little office suite I worked on last summer for first relea...

Aug 10, 2003
Usability and UI Design

KDE Usability Gripes

Just for fun, let’s look over the KDE screenshot from before. Issues: What in the world is “aRTs?” Why would I want to enable or disable full duplex operation? Hell, I spent four years getting a computer science degree, and I have no clue he...

Aug 10, 2003
Usability and UI Design

Linux Usability Disasters

The single most irritating type of comment I ever read on Slashdot is the “but we should stop copying Windows and invent our own unique, better user interface!” This bothers me to no end. I honestly cannot believe that the Linux community will dev...