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Aug 15, 2006
Web Design

Time Magazine' 50 Coolest Websites

Time just published their list of the 50 coolest websites of 2006. Not surprisingly, they highlight a number of sites that fall under the banner of Web 2.0, such as Farecast (my new favorite site), Zillow, Meebo, YouTube, and Pandora (even though ...

Aug 15, 2006
Web Design

Picking a Screen Resolution

Every year or so, I check into the latest recommendations on website sizing and screen resolutions. Surprisingly, about 17% of web users still browse at 800x600px, which may sound like a small number, but remember that there are 200,000,000 Intern...

Aug 14, 2006
WPF

Rocking 3D Graphics with WPF

Eric Sink, blogger extraordinaire and founder of SourceGear, experimented with Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly known as Avalon) last month, with great success. He built an application that enumerates woodworking steps along with little 3...

Aug 13, 2006
Meta

Surviving Creative Burnout

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...

Aug 13, 2006

Minneapolis Trip - September 2006

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...