Mike Rowehl

I've been working in mobile for a long time, and on internet service scalability even longer. I'm currently working on Churn Labs with some friends, hacking on a bunch of interesting mobile projects. Drop me a line if you're interested.
Miker on Twitter- miker: I'm pretty sure time compresses between midnight and 3am.
- miker: @fusion94 Hey. Just cause you get to live a life of leisure in your costal geek cave, there's no reason to rub it in. // @aswong76
- miker: @matthewgonzales I have a dinner tomorrow night, but I'll try to swing by #SFNT afterward. Hope to catch you!
- miker: RT @Ewan: @miker Whatever you think of the Nokia/WP strategy, at least Elop stepped up and did something to change course. Rim? Iceberg!
- miker: Yo RIM: Where’s your sense of urgency? http://t.co/mZYevZIs (Oh, so doomed)
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Category Archives: Open Source
webOS Open Source
I wasn’t planning to weigh in on HP deciding to open up webOS, cause like I’ve said before tectonic shifts with little short-term impact aren’t really that important to startups. However, I’ve been doing open source stuff for a whole … Continue reading
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JSON Bookmark Sync for Android
I’ve been playing around with a few different ideas lately, many of which include some statement such as “it would be interesting, but it really needs to interact with the default browser otherwise it would be really clunky.” So last … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Browser, Open Source, Software, Technology, ThisIsMobility
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Fetching Gmail Messages by Label on Android
Android has a nice setup for programmatically accessing data across applications called ContentProviders. There’s a content provider that you can use to read the email that Gmail has cached, but I was having a hard time finding an example of … Continue reading
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Zend Server CE 5.x and XDebug on OS X
I’ve taken to using Zend Server Community Edition for PHP work on OS X. Nice self-contained set of PHP, Apache, and Mysql. Most of the folks I work with don’t use editors or IDEs that support the Zend debugging extension … Continue reading
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Mozilla Open Web App Prototype
I think this prototype of an open web app system from the folks at Mozilla is quite interesting. First thing to note is that it works currently on Android and iPhone devices even in the prototype version they have up. … Continue reading
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“App” Doesn’t Have to Mean “Native”
With AppNation wrapping up earlier this week and Mobile 2.0 happening next week I’ve been thinking a lot more about industry level shifts in mobile. Normally I’m heads down in some bit of server code lately, so it is relatively … Continue reading
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Removing the Password from a PDF
I have a few ebooks I’ve purchased online that came as password protected PDFs. While mildly annoying while trying to read them on a desktop system, it’s patently absurd when I try to move them over to the iPad to … Continue reading
Posted in iPhone, Open Source, Software, Technology, ThisIsMobility
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WordPress Updated
I did the update to WordPress 3.0 and added a new theme for the blog (you’ll have to actually visit the site to see, most of you read through RSS). Most of my motivation was getting something in there that … Continue reading
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Long Running Background Scripts with CodeIgniter
I’ve been working on a project using CodeIgniter recently, and have been trying to clean some stuff up so that long running background scripts use the same code as the live system. Sane, every framework has some way of wiring … Continue reading
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Zend Server Community Edition vs Snow Leopard
After upgrading to Snow Leopard we’ve had only one real issue so far, Zend Server Community Edition didn’t want to start up. Well, technically, parts of it. The apache instance was running, by mysql and the admin interface were dead. … Continue reading
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