Aaron Brethorst (Page 201)

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 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...

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...

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 09, 2003
Mac OS X

Rendezvous

If I ever meet Stuart Cheshire, I am going to buy him a beer. I was bored to tears at work today – I completed the project that I’ve been working on a couple days ago, and everyone I work with is gone so I can’t get any feedback – so I started pu...