Introducing the Win-Pod
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 | Dirk WatkinsTouch in Windows 7… looks familiar… (just a little bit bigger)windowsvistablog.com
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About Dirk Watkins
Dirk Watkins was born in Door County. He studied computer science and art at Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Dirk now works as a web application developer in Milwaukee programming mostly in c#, javascript, sql queries and the occasional actionscript. For design he likes to utilize as much css (positioning and styles) as possible. Dirk uses Dreamweaver, Visual Studio 2005, Flash and Photoshop daily and lots of other random programs frequently. In his spare time Dirk plays guitar, reads, listens to NPR, works on his house, and sleeps on quiet beaches.
The Wisdom of Debugging
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 | Dirk Watkins“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.”
Spreadsheet Puzzle Game
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 | Dirk WatkinsHere’s a new game that I found that is pretty fun. It takes the idea of an Excel spreadsheet and makes it fun. You need to move around filled in cells and use warps to get to a goal. Kind of like Kwirk in a way except that you don’t move the boxes. There is another Game Boy game […]
Superfluous Mission Statements
Thursday, March 13th, 2008 | Dirk WatkinsWe exist to interactively leverage other’s scalable resources so that we may endeavor to proactively leverage existing inexpensive intellectual capital
Internet Explorer 8 Passes ACID2 Test
Friday, January 4th, 2008 | Dirk WatkinsInternet Explorer 8 is supposed to be even more standards compliant than IE7 and the IE development team just passed the ACID2 test. Pretty cool.
