Web services: user interfaces for machines
After interviewing with MotionBased for a front end UI/web developer position, I realized it’d be a good idea to get my hands dirty with the ins-and-outs of the back end: that is, I wanted to learn more about the inner workings of the things that I would be making look pretty. (Of course, I wouldn’t only be making things look pretty, I’d also be making them, actually, you know, usable.)
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Under Construction
It’s Friday and I’m redesigning my website. If you happen to be checking this out right now, please pardon the dust! Of course, the Portfolio is still available if you’re interested in seeing my work.
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On the Microsoft interview, but mostly my hatred for typos
With a stroke of luck (oh no, it wasn’t my abundance of skill at, you know, whatever I do), I managed to score an interview with Microsoft. While it was fairly stressful — after all, times when you really want something badly are when you get stressed out the most — it was more fun than anything.
The questions were fairly interesting and included things like “describe your most difficult technical problem” and “design a table using Microsoft Surface” — but I must say, the most gut-wrenching part of the whole thing was finding the room I was to be interviewed in.
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Older entries from the scratchpad
- 02.20.08 Microsoft Dreamspark: I hope they didn’t use their own tools to make this page
- 02.15.08 IE8: Going boldly where no Internet Explorer has gone before
- 02.15.08 Cold weather and ink of the digital kind
- 02.15.08 Taglines and such
- 02.15.08 Standards, and how one company can ruin my life
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