I’ve been looking at some of the older code I’ve had sitting on my various hard drives and Dropbox accounts and realised something: a lot of this code is not that novel. There is nothing wrong with it, but a lot of just solves problems that I find myself having to...
Earlier this week Microsoft unveiled its brand new web programming language Typescript. If you don’t know what Typescript is or what features the language has, please take a look at Anders Hejlsberg’s great introductory video. Also, take a look at the Typescript...
Open source frameworks are great and I encourage you to use them when appropriate. However, there is a such a thing as too much of a good thing. There is a point where your project becomes more a stitched together Frankenstein’s monster than an elegant well crafted...
Recently, there has been a lot of discussion surrounding the differences between software professionals based on their titles; a number of bloggers have claimed that there is some sort of intrinsic difference between ‘software developers’, software engineers’, and...
If you have been following me on Google+, you may know that my beloved Macbook Pro had a little accident; I was working late and was extremely tired and I dropped my full mug of coffee directly onto my Macbook. That’s right the entire mug of steaming hot coffee went...
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...
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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.
