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
jezzball.net - twitch game in Java
clubanywhere.com - old travel photo site
work
currently i work for a tiny seattle-area software company called Microsoft. i manage a little group of developers working on the video service. previously i ran the redmond portion of the television technology division. prior to coming to Microsoft i worked briefly at Spyglass (now OpenTV) doing browser work and before that, central data corporation where i designed hardware, wrote firmware, and did unix and nt device drivers.
languages
nine or ten 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 need to spend a little time living in a spanish speaking country. spanish then led to portuguese and i also can read/write that fairly well and at least defend myself in conversation.
hobby
older writings
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