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January 2004 - Posts

U of Minnesota Recruiting Wrapup

Posted Friday, January 30, 2004 10:35 PM by aaronbrethorst
I have been really bad about blogging in the past week because it's just been nuts for me. Unlike Scoble, blogging tends to be the first thing I cut from my daily list of activities (a double-edged sword, for sure). In any case, I imagine that I will Read More...
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Alex Kipman on MSBuild

Posted Thursday, January 22, 2004 8:27 PM by aaronbrethorst
My occasional lunch companion/soon-to-be office mate, Alex Kipman, is featured on the latest episode of MSDN TV. You can check it out here . Kipman talks extensively here about our new build platform, MSBuild, and what makes it so cool. Random sidenote: Read More...
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Seattle Area Blog Meetup

Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:09 AM by aaronbrethorst
Tonight, Wed. January 21 2004 @ 7pm. Leilani Lanes 10201 Greenwood Ave N Seattle . Read More...
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Import/Export Settings in Whidbey PDC Build

Posted Sunday, January 18, 2004 9:55 PM by aaronbrethorst
I just ran across a blog entry from David Hunter , who has been playing around with the PDC build of Whidbey. David was trying to create a web service after reading about Indigo, but discovered that his New Project menu item had completely disappeared! Read More...
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U of Minnesota/IEEE Career Fair

Posted Sunday, January 18, 2004 5:36 PM by aaronbrethorst
This is just a head's up to any students at the University of Minnesota (or other schools in the Twin Cities): the U of MN's IEEE student group is sponsoring a career fair a week from tomorrow (which would make it Monday, January 26) at the McNamara Alumni Read More...
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that silly aggregator. again.

Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2004 10:59 PM by aaronbrethorst
I just finished implementing a really bare-bones smartphone-compatible web-based RSS aggregator. Best feature: No typing in of feed Urls; just give it a single Url to an OPML file and you're good to go. Of course, typing in that sort of address is still Read More...
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More thoughts on that aggregator, plus cool ASP.Net stuff

Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:58 AM by aaronbrethorst
Omar Shahine reminded me today that NewsGator just announced a mobile version of their NewsGator aggregator. I've been a user of their product (version 1.3) for the past few months now, and I've been a huge fan. So, we'll see what happens with my work. Read More...
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A mobile RSS aggregator

Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2004 12:55 AM by aaronbrethorst
I purchased a Motorola mpx200 about a month ago. This is one of the two mobile phones running the Microsoft Smartphone 2002 OS available in the United States today. It's absolutely fantastic; I think it is, without a doubt, the best cell phone I have Read More...
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About Me

Posted Thursday, January 08, 2004 7:06 PM by aaronbrethorst
About Me: I work for Microsoft. I'm a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Core team. Specifically, I work on Core IDE functionality. Which means what? Basically, I'm responsible for ensuring cross-suite user interface consistency and accessibility, among Read More...
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