Michael Buckley

Updated: Nov 6, 2008 at 3:20 pm

"I am a recent graduate of the University of Oregon with a B.S. in Computer Information Science. I write Macintosh and iPhone software in my spare time. I prefer to use Objective-C, but have been known to use Python on occasion. I am, however, one of those people who is bothered by the significant whitespace at the start of Python lines.

"I have worked for the last four years in technical support, working one-on-one with customers in person. Through these experiences, I have gained a lot of insight into how average users use their computers, which has improved the way I design software targeted at these users.

"I am a big fan and advocate of free/libre/open-source software, but I am not above writing commercial software. Most of my software is released under the MIT/X11 license, but I have been required to use the GPL a few times.

"I am most interested in working on software which is useful to people, but also enjoy writing games and other entertainment software. I am not very interested in writing libraries/frameworks or enterprise software, though I have written a medium-sized networking framework in Objective-C. "

Portfolio

BTLSockets.framework

What I did: "Designed and implemented the framework in its entirety."

 

brnconvert

What I did: "Dove into the MegaHAL source to understand how the brain files are formatted and implemented the converter."

 

My skills

Projects I'm interested in...

Coding

  • HTML / CSS
  • Cocoa
  • Python
  • Java
  • Server-Side Scripting (PHP/Rails/etc)

Application Genres

Development, Education, Home & Personal, Multimedia & Design, Games, Internet, Utilities, and Productivity

Licensing

Commercial and Open-Source

Platforms

Mac and iPhone