There is a growing idea on the web that JavaScript is somehow the assembly language of web. This is a horrible analogy for a number of reasons: it shows a misunderstanding of what assembly language is, implies that JavaScript is not a human readable language, and it...
I am happy to announce that I am now co-hosting a show (Coder Radio)3 on software development with Chris Fisher on Jupiter Broadcasting. The show will air live every Monday at noon EST and be available for download shortly after. I hope the show is a resource for...
Apple’s ARC (automatic reference counting) for Mac and iOS devices is intended to make Cocoa development easier. For the most part it does. However, in using it I have encountered a bit of a pitfall: by default the compiler does not optimize your code in debugging but...
iOS 5 has brought a lot of quality of life improvements in terms of memory management and the general iOS development workflow, assuming you are on the latest tooling. However, nothing is free and there seems to be a little bit of a pitfall that you might hit if you...
Times are tough and development budgets seem to be getting smaller and smaller, assuming that you are not Draw Something or Instagram. My experience has been that clients who are interested in supporting both Android and iOS do not generally want to develop two native...
When Google’s GDrive was finally made available to the public, I was thrilled to see that the pricing structure would allow me to get double the space for the same amount of money I was paying Dropbox. Reading the description, it seemed that GDrive had all of the...
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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.
