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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. Milestone Context: POP | Date: Dec 2010
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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 you every day. The best way to figure out how much “touch” your client needs is just to try it your way and see if they react. If they don’t, you win. If they get pissed you adjust. A friend recently asked me for the advice I would give an…
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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 easy to track what I’ve read, what I like, and what I want to share with colleagues or friends. I can catch up with Tim Ferris’ blog on the bus and when I get back to my desk I know which articles I skipped and which ones I starred for…
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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 ASP.NET MVC to build a feature-rich social application on Facebook. Here are some of the links I shared with the group: Apps on Facebook.com – Introduction Facebook Developer Roadmap Facebook Developer Home New Facebook C# SDK Old Facebook C# SDK FBML Reference FQL Reference Elmah Error Handling Framework
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Continue reading →: Escaping the Walled Garden With Javascript
I actually enjoyed the hours I spent logging my favorite books into the weRead app on Facebook. Reminiscing about those quirky scifi novels I read when I was younger was nice. The promise of seeing what my friends have read and how we match up with ratings was good motivation. I’m thinking even if this app is clunky and slow, the database is huge (thanks, Amazon) and the potential for social value is gigantic. Unfortunately, I got sufficiently frustrated with this app and wanted to try the Google Books Library feature. Google asked me to paste a comma-separated list of…
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Continue reading →: My Favorite Things: Whiteboards, Good Coffee, iPhone Apps, Facebook Games
A whiteboard in your workspace is essential. I do a lot of design work on sketch paper (lines get in my way) but having a whiteboard in my office gives me the power to let my imagination run wild. I just take a picture with my phone and share it with my team. Check out SnapClean.me to clean up those whiteboard pics Good Coffee is one of those things you don’t know you need until you can’t get it. “In Seattle you haven’t had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it’s running.” -Jeff Bezos iPhone Apps…
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Continue reading →: Games without frontiers: Windows Mobile 7
With the recent announcement of Windows Phone 7 Launch Game Line-Up it’s clear Microsoft wants WP7 to contend with iPhone as a serious gaming platform. I don’t think they have a chance. “If looks could kill they probably will.” – Peter Gabriel It’s all about looks and performance. The iPhone will be king of the graphics hill for a long time. On the development hill, I’m excited about the Windows Phone developer’s tools because it brings the familiarity of Xbox Live game development to a mobile platform. Trust me, jumping from C# to Java for the Android SDK is a…
Hello,
I’m Aaron
Engineering Manager in Seattle
