Star Profile: Photos by Darrell Hanley
Star Profile: Photos by Darrell Hanley
Every two weeks at Postlight one employee is named “Star of the Week.” They are granted certain playlist and food-ordering privileges, given a balloon, toasted at a happy hour, and sort of generally appreciated for their contributions.
Upon completion of their week they are required to select the next star. In this way is tradition maintained.
This week’s star is Darrell Hanley. We’re lucky to have Darrell at Postlight. He’s a UI Designer and Web Developer with a specialization for mobile and responsive design. He’s also a committed and talented photographer. He selected nine of his photos below, and graciously allowed us to reproduce them. You can see more of his work at his 500px portfolio.
March 15 @ Postlight: Come see the man who killed Clippy
Dean Hachamovitch is one of the most influential human beings who ever served time in the software industry. He served as Corporate Vice President of Internet Explorer at Microsoft — and oversaw the launch of IE9. Under Dean’s management, Microsoft helped millions of people experience a secure, private, responsive, cross-platform, and standards-based Web.
That responsibility was earned: Before IE, starting in 1990, Dean led the development of several versions of Word and Office on both Windows and Mac. AutoCorrect? Dean. Automated formatting? Dean. Clippy? NOT Dean. His team was the one that killed Clippy in 2007. RIP.
Dean is a modest person and does not enjoy being promoted, but the truth is he’s had as much of an impact on culture and software as nearly anyone alive. He has graciously agreed to speak about his work at Microsoft, building software at a huge, global scale before anyone knew what that meant — and, if we are very lucky, he might do his Ballmer impersonation.
At Postlight’s offices in NYC.
Today’s Links
- Today’s variety of religious experience: Hungarian polytheism.
- Today’s North Korean slogan: “Bring about a revolution in media and literature and arts in the new century!”
- Today’s public data set: Network Twitter Data.
- Today’s JavaScript library: Numeral-js — A javascript library for formatting and manipulating numbers.
- Today’s Creative Commons media link: Europeana — Explore 48,427,731 artworks, artefacts, books, videos and sounds from across Europe.
- Today’s freely available programming book: Free Range VHDL — Bryan Mealy, Fabrizio Tappero (TeX and PDF).
- Today’s old-school Unix fortune: “Beauty times brains equals a constant.”
- Today’s React component: react-to-html-webpack-plugin — Compile React components to static HTML.
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