Aaron Lerch

Maybe it’s “the grass is always greener” syndrome, but the idea of starting a Micro ISV has always been attractive to me. I suspect it comes from the following (flawed) thought process:
1. I can create software.2. I can create good software. (My mom says so, anyway.)3. Problems exist that software can solve.4. I can become […]

I’ve really enjoyed the default background images that have shipped with Vista. I think they’re beautiful, even if some don’t make great backgrounds behind a lot of desktop icons - if that’s the case, shame on you - clean that up!

If you didn’t know, Microsoft commissioned some amateur photographers to capture live-image backgrounds. I […]

I’ve been working on a set of Powershell Cmdlets to fully replace the symstore.exe utility that is included with the Debugging Tools for Windows. (To be released as open source when I’m done.) When I think about writing Cmdlets, I tend to think that the best approach is to create an API and then wrap […]

Jeff Atwood wrote a post on passing the “Elevator Test”. He says,
Software developers think their job is writing code. But it’s not.* Their job is to solve the customer’s problem. Sure, our preferred medium for solving problems is software, and that does involve writing code. But let’s keep this squarely in context: writing code is […]

Over a year ago I posted about some incomplete MSDN documentation. In continuing my “annual” series on interesting documentation tidbits, I got a kick out of the code example for the Environment.UserDomainName property:
// Sample for the Environment.UserDomainName property
using System;

class Sample
{
public static void Main()
{
Console.WriteLine();
// […]

I’m starting to take this crazy idea of an “Indy Code Camp” and slowly bring it into reality. But I can’t do it alone. I’m not asking people to make a huge commitment (that’ll be me), but rather I’m looking for people who can help in very specific ways, each of which is hopefully not […]

This is one of the few times (I hope) that I echo what probably a bunch of bloggers are, or will be, posting. I just saw that Jeffrey Snover announced an upcoming CTP of Windows PowerShell.
I’m excited to download it and check it out - though as a non-admin I don’t do enough with PowerShell […]

My friend job (IT at a major pharmaceutical company) has him dealing with tons and tons of documents. He periodically has to burn large directory trees of documents to some media (CD/DVD). He asked me about a way he could easily create an HTML-based “table of contents” (TOC) for the entire burned media - like […]