I am pretty religious about keeping sharp with my coding skills and keeping up to date with the software industry as a whole. I spend a lot of time keeping up to date with the latest tech and programming techniques in an effort to become a more productive developer....
I’ve been doing a good deal of C# WinRT development recently and for the most part it hasn’t been bad. This week, however, I found a pitfall that is not only so simple it’s silly but also managed to waste an hour or so of my time. WinRT has a class called MediaElement...
Android developers will know that there are some serious issues of fragmentation on the platform. These issue have been well recorded and, at times, greatly exaggerated. The truth is that in the last year Google has taken great steps toward making the Android...
If you’ve been listening to recent Coder Radio episodes or following this blog, then you probably know that I have been working on a side project (that I am no longer pursuing due to intense competition in the space and a general lack of interest on my part) in...
I had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year and, as is common this time of year, friends and family made the normal mentions of things, places, people, or any other sort of noun that they are thankful. Of course, I agree with the most common objects of gratitude:...
I’ve been busy recently and haven’t had a whole lot of team to read any new technical books and was in the middle of reading Think Like a Programmer by O’reilly media for their blogger review program. I regret to say that this is the first and only truly...
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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.
