Welcome to Pallet Town! Pallet town is going to be an ongoing bi-weekly look at various development technologies and techniques from the perspective of someone new to that technology. For those who might know or (God forbid) are too young to get the reference, Pallet...
Recently, I launched my latest app Tomato Soup -- simple iOS pomodoro timer and have been fielding a lot of questions from Coder Radio listeners regarding my platform choice; for those who don’t know Code Journal (iOS and OS X) and Tomato Soup (iOS) are both only...
At the time of this draft I am lying in bed watching The Avengers and I've just gotten through the scene where Loki makes the German civilians kneel and one elderly man stands up and refuses – he states that there are "always men like you" to Loki. What's my point...
Software development is at its core a terribly frustrating profession. You get lured into with images of the lone hacker building a billion website overnight in his dorm and here about the excitement of building a new product or even embarking on a new project for a...
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...
Recently, there has been some debate regarding what sort of responsibility we have as developers when we open-source our software. There has been some suggestion that when you open-source something you are obligated to maintain and care for it, as a parent would a...
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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.
