denniscronin.net
my sites
freecell.net - popular addictive online solitaire (used AJAX long before it was christened AJAX)
winnablesolitaire.com - familiar Klondike solitaire with mods to make it 100% winnable
minuteboard.com - super simple discussion board you can add to your site or use standalone
coolpick.com - cool-site-of-the-day site that's oddly enough still going strong
jezzball.net - super simple little twitch game
clubanywhere.com - old travel photo site
work
currently i work for a tiny seattle-area software company called microsoft. i run a small television technology incubation group. previously i worked at spyglass doing browser work and before that, central data corporation where i designed hardware, wrote firmware, and did unix and nt device drivers.
languages
six or seven years ago i became interested in spanish and began studying it. i now can say i speak spanish really pretty well. to achieve true fluency i think i'd probably just need six months to a year living in a spanish speaking country. spanish then led to portuguese; and i also can read/write that fairly well and can at least defend myself in conversation.
older writings
wysiwyg xml editor - msdn, august 2003
audio digital signal processing algorithms - dr. dobbs, july 1994
single-image stereograms - dr. dobbs, july 1995
stack swap real-time executive - c users journal (with tom green), march 1993
hobby pages
matchstickrockets.com - my first web page ever
hifi preamp project - little super simple project for you mid-zone hifi tweaks out there
music - i've dabbling in song writing all my life
past
i went to highschool in springfield, illinois at springfield high. i studied e.e. at the u of i and was a rather unlikely frat rat at sigma nu. i started a family rather young, dropped out of school, and then later went back to the university in c.s., but got sucked in by the big money and high pressure schedules of technology jobs and the rest, shall we say, is history.
contact
dennis cronin
redmond, washington
dennis.croningmail.com