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. You can download the m4a file or subscribe in iTunes. (Or subscribe to the podcast feed.) Mike Lee, Appsterdam founder, has worked at Alaska Airlines, Delicious Monster (with Wil Shipley), Apple, and is now Chief Lemur at New Lemurs. This episode is sponsored by Hover. Hover makes domain name management easy. And it’s a snap to transfer domains from other registrars using their valet service. Get 10% off your first purchase with the promotional code BMF. (BMF -- Be My Friend — is Mike Lee’s Twitter handle.) You notice how people with a lot of domains are always talking about Hover? It’s because of their excellent service. Take a look. 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