Nathan Brixius

I have been brushing up on keyboard shortcuts ever since I installed the Windows 7 beta on my laptop. Tim Sneath has a great summary of keyboard shortcuts here , in particular I LOVE the window management shortcuts. If you have IE8 you also probably know Read More...

I work on a large team with a lot of dependencies and fairly tight deadlines. I wanted to share some of a few techniques for fixing bugs quickly. Maybe this is all common knowledge but I’ll share it anyway. Trade bugs. It’s not very efficient if you and Read More...

A colleague asked me to jot down some thoughts on what makes a good developer at Microsoft. This is by no means complete, but three statements come to mind when I think about strong developers: We are engineers, not hackers. A strong dev should be able Read More...

...you start scheduling time on your calendar to 'think'. Read More...

Me and my brother helped my mom move over the weekend. Advice for movers and software developers: Don't move anything you don't actually want or need. Throw out your SAT study guide, your old copies of Maxim, the Michigan starter jacket, the annotated Read More...