There are some bugs that you fix and brag about to your friends afterward, then there are the ones that are just plain embarrassing. Unfortunately, I’m writing about one of the latter today rather than the former. You see this pitfall, though no more or less annoying...
There are a lot of cases where you will want to notify your user of some event of reminder without actually setting a formal alarm in their Alarm app. The standard solution most developers seem to take in these situations is to setup something like Urban Airship and...
There has been a lot of discussion recently in the iOS community regarding the so called "health" of the paid application market. My feelings on whether it is better to pay for the software you use to ensure that you are the developer's main customer are well...
As someone who lives less than five miles from the Atlantic ocean in NJ, I’ve been having a bit of a bad time recently due to Hurricane Sandy. Luckily, I was not harmed nor were any of my loved ones in the crisis. I did, however, notice something important: even my...
These last few weeks I have been writing here and posting elsewhere about Parse, a service that stands up a simple backend for mobile application developers to connect to their apps. There are lot of good things that can be said about Parse. Unfortunately, it is based...
Querying data is a pretty common task for most if not all mobile apps. iOS and Android have made the work pretty easier for developers, but Parse has thrown their hat into the ring to make it even easier for developers who choose to use their development tools and...
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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.
