Install openSUSE on Digital Ocean
Digital Ocean comes with a wide range of Linux and BSD distributions to choose from as well as a few custom "one-click install" applications for common open-source software such as WordPress and Gitlab. Unfortunately, Digital does not at present have an option for an...
Yo, Thelio!
UPDATE 2/19/19: In this post, I originally mentioned that the fan noise had not appeared on any VOIP calls. As it turns out it appears both on the Coder Radio recorded on the 18th even after being edited out and I was informed by co-workers that it does indeed appear...
Creative Selection for Dev Shops
I just finished Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda, a former Apple developer on the original Safari for macOS and iPhone projects. If you create products of any kind for anyone (including yourself), you should read this book. Kocienda provides a rare glimpse into the...
ZMQ Setup for Qt Dev on Windows
Currently, I am working on a project that is a Qt application targeting modern Linux desktop distributions and Windows. The application needs to communicate with some onboard hardware via ZMQ. Normally in a Windows only .Net environment, I'd use NetMQ and C# and be...
Pallet Town: Async / Await
If you've ever had the pleasure of enjoying a drink with a .Net developer and stumbled into any form of a C# VS insert language here, then you've probably heard about they dynamic duo of the async and await keywords. Sadly, our .Net loving friends are right that they...
MSHub == FOSS Love?
It looks like the Octocat is out of the bag. Microsoft is acquiring Github for what one can only imagine is a few Brinks trucks of cash. There’s been quite a lot of response in the Linux and free software community already on this. One of Github’s primary rivals...
About Me
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.
