Fizzbuzzed
Over the last few weeks I’ve been interviewing potential candidates for development and QA internships. I can confidently say without exaggerating that this has been one of the most difficult and frankly disappointing experiences of my professional life. Frankly, most...
Pallet Town: Intro to AFHTTPClient Part 1
Welcome to Pallet Town! Pallet town is going to be an ongoing bi-weekly look at various development technologies and techniques from the perspective of someone new to that technology. For those who might know or (God forbid) are too young to get the reference, Pallet...
Programming Pitfalls: iOS Simulator and Audio Codecs
There are some bugs that you fix and brag about to your friends afterward, then there are the ones that are just plain embarrassing. Unfortunately, I’m writing about one of the latter today rather than the former. You see this pitfall, though no more or less annoying...
Better Dead than Public
Dell has a big problem and it’s not the one you might think. Although it is true that the PC market has weakened or perhaps more accurately evolved into the tablet market, that is not the primary cause of Dell’s current situation. Dell’s troubles began in 1988 well...
Book Review: Showstoppers
Showstopper by G. Pascal is a look from the front lines at the development of Windows NT. Anyone who knows the history of Microsoft or the even just the wider history of the personal computing market, knows that Windows NT was an important step for Microsoft. However,...
2013 Nexus 7 Review
This weekend I got a tip that my local Best Buy was selling the new Nexus 7s early, so I jumped in my car and bought one of the 16GB ones. Strangely, they didn’t have a display out or even a sign for the tablet but after speaking to a salesman, he told me that he...
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.
