Seattle Before the iPhone #9 - Mike Lee
This episode was recorded 17 May 2013 live and in person at Omni’s beautiful offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle.
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Mike Lee, Appsterdam founder, has worked at Alaska Airlines, Delicious Monster (with Wil Shipley), Apple, and is now Chief Lemur at New Lemurs.
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This episode is also sponsored by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. Mobile Services is a great way to provide backend services — syncing and other things — for your iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. It’s high level — you can get more done with less work. It’s also deep: write JavaScript in your favorite text editor. Test with mocha. Deploy with git.
Things we mention, in order of appearance (mostly):
- Kurt Cobain
- Grunge
- Honolulu
- Hawaii
- University of Puget Sound
- Tacoma
- Puget Sound
- Alaska Airlines
- SeaTac
- Lead ramp agent
- Skilled labor
- 1993
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- DHTML
- Flash
- Web Standards Project
- XML
- Java
- C#
- DotNet
- Macintosh
- PC
- Microsoft
- Windows
- Windows 95
- Mac OS X
- Terrorist watch list
- WWDC
- JavaOne
- Objective-C
- Xcode
- 2005
- 2001
- Renoir Hotel
- WWDC Student Scholarship
- Wil Shipley
- Wil Shipley’s Speech on the Indie Dream
- Devry
- FedEx
- Core Data
- Bill Bumgarner
- Federal Way
- I-5
- Delicious Library
- Apple Design Award
- Campus Bash
- Denny’s
- Omni Group
- Rumpus Room
- Apple Store
- Barnes & Noble
- Lucas Newman
- Mike Matas
- Knoxville
- Samurai
- Yoko Ono
- Seattle Xcoders
- Gus Mueller
- Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
- Dave Winer
- Superman
- IL 7
- John Geleynse
- Lemur Chemistry
- Cabel Sasser
- “Hi, I Make Macintosh Software” T-shirt
- altWWDC
- Debug podcast
- Tapulous
- Tap Tap Revenge
- iFart
- DTS
- IL 3
- Caffè Macs
- Rands
- Matt Drance
- Michael Jurewitz