The sales industry is obsessed with building robots that can send email. That is impressive in roughly the same way an automatic nail gun is impressive when nobody has checked whether you are building the right house. f you’ve been on Twitter or LinkedIn lately,...
I just finished Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda, a former Apple developer on the original Safari for macOS and iPhone projects. If you create products of any kind for anyone (including yourself), you should read this book. Kocienda provides a rare glimpse into the...
It looks like the Octocat is out of the bag. Microsoft is acquiring Github for what one can only imagine is a few Brinks trucks of cash. There’s been quite a lot of response in the Linux and free software community already on this. One of Github’s primary rivals...
As a developer it's easy to get sucked into the Grid. By that I mean to spend way too much working on programming and software engineering and losing balance in life. There's of course nothing wrong with liking to work on side projects on the weekend or contribute to...
I have had the great privilege of really coming to age at just the right time to be able to get into the ground floor of the mobile app development wave starting in 2008. In fact, to my knowledge, I opened one of the first three purely mobile app development firms in...
As I sit in the flight back from my family vacation to Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida, I find myself in awe of what I can only describe as the most ingenious business innovation since the independent subcontractor - the Fast Pass. If you haven't been to WDW...
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Hi! I’m Mike! I’m a software engineer who codes at The Mad Botter INC. You might know me from Coder Radio or The Mike Dominick Show. Drop me a line if you’re interested in having some custom mobile or web development done.
