One thing I have done for my blogs is automatically turn off comments after a short period of time. This may cut down interaction a lot, but I feel that it is necessary. Let me explain why. Years ago I had a podcast called DogearNation. We based this podcast on the very popular DiggNation podcast… […]
Author: Michael Rowe
Deal with post-surgical blues
Two weeks ago, I had surgery for a combined Carpel Tunnel and Cupital Tunnel injury. This is pretty much an occupational hazard in our industry. The Carpel Tunnel surgery addresses the nerve that runs under your wrist, into the palm of your hand and controls three of your digits – the Thumb, pointer, and middle […]
Rabbits and Dice
This past weekend, I went to the Durham Public Library for an event called – Dice & Decisions: Role Playing Game Demonstration. The organizers have been hosting a series of events about gaming with a local game development called BullyPulpitGames. Our host for the day as Jason Morningstar – one of the owners of the […]
Site rebranding complete
I’ve been trying to rebrand the site to a personal blog, since that is what it has become, since midsummer… But between day job activities, travel and technical difficulties, that just didn’t want to happen… So now it is complete. I will be moving over my iPhone Development blog over here too, soon. Thinking about […]
Day 3 – CES 2016
Wow, Amazing day, got a full 4 hours on the show floor, and was able to see a ton of really cool tech. Unfortunately I will miss Day 4, due to flights, but what did I get from CES this year. 1) The IOT is main stream. Many companies are still showing their own platforms. […]
Day 2 – CES 2016
Sometimes the best laid plans…. This year, my goal was to spend 90%+ of my time on the show floor doing market research. I was then asked to help setup and give a quick demo, train a few people, and then be able to go back to my plan. Well, day one I got to […]
Day 1 of CES
Well, I had a draft for the trip over here.. that I worked on my iPad at the airport in Minneapolis but it wouldn’t upload, and now it has disappeared off of my iPad. So I guess we will never see all the cool insights about a delayed flight, and a snowy approach. Today is […]
Learn to Code in Swift – a Book Review
I had the opportunity to read the book “Learn to Code in Swift – The new language of iOS Apps” by Kevin J. McNeish, over year end holidays. I’ve been looking for a good book on Swift, as I spent last summer translating my own app from Objective-C to Swift. While I really didn’t know […]
A month of the iPad Pro!
It has been a month that I’ve had the iPad pro now, and I can say I love it. It is not perfect and I will go thru a few of the problems I’ve had with it, but let me go thru what I like. 1) The screen – yes it is an amazing screen. […]
iPad Pro – Is it worth it?
I had ordered my iPad Pro and expected to get it shipped on Dec. 3rd. Friday morning I was having a coffee at my favorite coffee shop, when I got an email from Apple that I could pick it up at the Apple Store. Well this was Black Friday and I wasn’t looking forward to […]