Aaron Lerch

Tim Heuer announced today the release of “S3 Browser”, a plug-in for Windows Live Writer that enables easy inserting of links or images from your S3 storage. See his announcement on his blog, and on the Code Trip’s blog.
Like Tim, I’ve been using S3 to host my images for the blog, and I wholeheartedly agree […]

Yes I know it’s boring to blog about blogging. Forgive me.
I started writing this blog as a way to document my “journey” through software development. Intended partly as a reminder to myself and partly as a source of hopefully helpful information to others, I’m pleased overall with how it’s gone.
But I’ve run across an interesting […]

Thanks to Dave Bost who hooked me up with a blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/aaronlerch!
I spent the last few days trying to decide how this was going to work. I want to post at weblogs.asp.net, I mean I’m just one path away from the likes of ScottGu, Roy Osherove, and Eilon Lipton. Not that it makes my […]

If you blog, and haven’t checked out FeedBurner yet, you should. Not only can it offload the majority of the bandwidth from a busy blog (not mine), but the stats it collects are impressive. They do a lot of work to display meaningful and correct stats, and even with that effort it’s always “approximate” […]

Some people write pretty quality .NET-related blog posts every time. You know, stuff worth posting and kicking on DotNetKicks. Then there’s people, like me, who obscure the occasional “good” post with a mountain of crap. If you don’t know what DotNetKicks is, I encourage you to check it out. It’s a great community-edited feed of […]

A few days ago I signed up for Google Adsense and put a few ads on my blog. I figured there’s enough traffic coming in that maybe it’ll pay for the hosting fees and “break even”, which is all I wanted. But I had one problem - I hate ads.  Actually let me qualify that. […]

Scott Hanselman has posted his annual “Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows“. This list consistently rocks every year! I can honestly say that incorporating much of what’s on the list has changed my development life for the better. Go check it out right now.
If you read Scott’s blog via Google Reader, like […]

Like relationship break-ups, leaving a blog engine (for another, no less!) is not easy. There’s pleading (”Stick with Blogger, it’ll change to meet your needs, I swear!”), denial (”Database driven blogs are slower than statically published blogs.”), and crying (”Why, why, oh why is this so hard? *sob*”). Not to mention the “grass is greener” […]

Jeff Atwood posted a list of 13 blog clichés. While I appreciate his emphasis on preference over belief, his readership numbers tell a larger story: Jeff Atwood’s preferences trump even my own beliefs. He knows what he’s talking about. But we all knew that already, didn’t we?
I’m going to do you all a […]

My friend and co-worker Mike has started a blog (or probably more accurately, renewed his blogging efforts): i like ellipses…
He laughs because he focuses on two somewhat unrelated topics: UI and Security. But he knows and enjoys them both, and it shows. I’ve really enjoyed his posts–they have been very insightful […]