As people who follow me on various social feeds may know, I have way too many interests at times: swimming, singing, gaming, programming, technology, gadgets, just to name a few. On top of this, I have a day job that keeps me very busy, more do lately then usual. My weekly podcast over at GamesAtWork.biz […]
Author: Michael Rowe
I made this
For years I’ve been trying to do some interesting things in 3D, but I found that my artistic skills are not always up to snuff. This week, however, I found a great tutorial on using Blender. If you are not familiar with Blender, it is an open source 3d modeling and animation tool that is […]
Is this your next development machine?
I finally got to play with the MacPro in person the other day at my local Apple store. This was not a fully loaded machine, it only had 12gb of ram and 256gb SSD, but I ran a few tests on it. And it was plenty fast for any activity that required multiple cores. I […]
Creating the next generation of connected vehicle
So, I teased this a few days ago. My new job has been heating up and since my linkedin profile now shows it, I guess I can talk about it here. At the beginning of the year, I took a new job as Product Manager for IBM’s connected vehicle offering. We are working across the […]
New year – new job
Well, I had planned on doing more posts this year, but as I have accepted a new job i am finding that I have even less time than before to post. During the day time, my job is now that of a product manager for IBM. This means I am working on new and exciting […]
Local startup scene
Full disclosure, I grabbed this screenshot from a game I am playing lately – Hipster CEO. I don’t believe they are local, but the game has some great lessons to budding developers in the area. First off, the game is hard. You start as a bootstrapped single person company. Like most developers I can relate […]
TapsBook App Review
This past Thursday, at the local Triangle Cocoaheads meeting, the creator of the app TapsBook showed his app and asked for feedback. Sherwood (the developer) expressed that his love of photography and desire to tell stories with all the pictures he came up with necessitated a better way of build photo books. The app is […]
One week with the iPad Air
I received my iPad Air this past Monday, and as promised, here is a little review. I’ve had every generation of the iPad up to the 3rd Generation. When the 4th Generation came out, I could not justify the speed bump ad the only benefit. Nor could I justify the mini, since it was not […]
Did you pick up your new toy today?
I ordered a new iPad Air this morning. My day is back to back calls and I figured there was no way I would be able to get out to pick one up. I went to the Apple online store and it looked like I was going to be able to order one with in […]
The iPad Air
Apple made a few announcements this week… And like many I had been hoping that the fingerprint reader would be added to the iPad … Like others, I was hoping that Apple would announce a Retina version of the iPad mini. So I guess I should be 50% happy. Realistically, I think the fingerprint reader […]