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Continue reading →: Migrating to Feedly
R.I.P Google Reader. A few interesting, and unexpected, alternatives have cropped up but Feedly is the one I’m going with. 5 Reasons Why: It’s free! Easily imports all my Google Reader feeds and categories iOS and Android apps Everyone else is switching to Feedly It’s better than Google Reader I…
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Continue reading →: Failure is not a permanent condition
“Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn’t the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of “grit” as a predictor…
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Continue reading →: weRead Amazon Exporter
This is a Greasemonkey script for Firefox. It inspects the weRead book shelf page for Amazon products and displays a list of ISBN or ASIN. Download from userscripts.org
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Continue reading →: Microsoft Office Add-in for Moodle
Allows teachers and students to open and save files from Moodle. Office Add-in with WCF sync.
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Continue reading →: Wooties Social Networking Game
A fun way to introduce yourself to other event attendees. iPhone web app. Twitter integration broadcasts when you earn points. Email feature for new user confirmation. Analytics for event host.
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Continue reading →: Cell Phone Tap-to-Pay Micro-site
Sprint NFC payment service (ISIS) launching this year. Nice to see my work online. Animated with jQuery. Custom lightboxes. Custom JavaScript carrousel. Gets about 22,000 hits per day. Starbucks is banking on tap-to-pay technology and so far it seems to be a good bet.
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Continue reading →: How to get a programming gig in Seattle
It helps to have some project management experience even if the team consists of you and Stack Overflow. If you can determine how much contact the client needs on a regular basis you will go far. Some only want to check in every 2 weeks, some want to talk to…
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Continue reading →: URL Rewriting: Increase Organic Traffic By Using Dynamic URLs That Look Static
I shared this article written for SEOmoz a while back because I’ve been asked to architect rewrite engines for many sites. The technique is well documented in the web development community but not well understood by clients. Read the article at SEOmoz.org
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Continue reading →: 4829.3 Posts! Low-Information Diet = Quality Control
I follow 4829.3 posts per week from 32 blogs. No, I don’t read all of them. In fact I read very few of them. My goal is to reduce the number of blogs I follow and increase the quality of the content I consume. Using Google Reader has made it…
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Continue reading →: Thanks for having me, TechRanch
I want to post a big thanks to TechRanch of Bozeman, Montana for inviting me to speak on Facebook app development. We withstood a brief hail storm and had no technical difficulties. I was very pleased with the turnout and hope everyone got a great overview of how to leverage…
Hello,
I’m Aaron
Engineering Manager in Seattle
Aaron Bronow 