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...
Unplugging From The Grid
As a developer it's easy to get sucked into the Grid. By that I mean to spend way too much working on programming and software engineering and losing balance in life. There's of course nothing wrong with liking to work on side projects on the weekend or contribute to...
Pop_OS! 18.04 Review: Developer Perspective
Listeners of Coder Radio episode 307 will know that I have been working full time in System 76's Pop_OS! 18.04, an Ubuntu-based Linux operating systems that is targeted at developers and other makers. Given that positioning of the OS, my review is going to focus on it...
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.
