Rob Janssen

Meet our new favorite design tool, PaintCode!

We’re happy to announce that PixelCut’s PaintCode now comes with C# support! PaintCode is a Mac desktop app that lets you literally draw your code: you create shapes, edit the stroke, fill, and gradient, and manipulate the resulting image as much as you’d like.

Test Driven Assembly

I tend to be a skeptical person. When I encounter a new idea, I often start on the offense. I try to force the new idea to stand up to scrutiny. My introduction to test-driven development was no different. I was most skeptical of the idea that TDD would result in better design choices.

Crypto breakthrough shows Flame was designed by world-class scientists

The Flame espionage malware that infected computers in Iran achieved mathematic breakthroughs that could only have been accomplished by world-class cryptographers, two of the world's foremost cryptography experts said.

Windows Azure - No Kidding

Last year when ScottGu moved over to the Azure group and brought the ASP.NET and IIS teams with him, I'll be frank, I wasn't a fan. I didn't really appreciate Azure or its first iteration.

A New Milestone For Openness On Windows Azure

Fear and Loathing and Windows 8

I was very excited when I saw the first demos of Windows 8. After years of settling for mediocre incremental improvements in its core products, Microsoft finally was ready to make bold changes to Windows, something I thought it had to do to stay relevant in computing.

Windows Live Photo Gallery—Poor Performance Peculiarities

I use Windows Live Photo Gallery (WLPG) because it has powerful features for tagging my photos and sorting through them. I depend on its functionality. But I have long been annoyed by its inconsistent performance, and today I investigated.

Preparing a technical talk

We software engineers love giving talks. Fortunately, the abundance of technical conferences shows that we like listening too. A lot of talks on these conferences are given by software engineers who love sharing knowledge, rather than professional speakers.

A DESIGN WITH ALL-CAPS

Hackers Need Our Own Everything

When I conceived of this post, it was going to be about how damn awesome Octopress is. And it certainly is awesome; it powers this blog, and makes writing it a joy, whereas trying to use Wordpress, Blogger, or even newer alternatives like Tumblr or Posterous was downright painful.

This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.

This list is compiled from my Pocket list.