Mike McDonald
Mike is an engineer on Firebase, a powerful application platform designed to speed up mobile, web, and IoT development. He spends his time building and evangelizing mobile solutions, working on internal tools, and supporting Firebases’ 200,000 developers. In his free time, he enjoys the outdoors and developing embedded hardware.
Talks I've Given
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“The experiment has just begun.” Building a real Reddit ‘button’ game with Android, IoT, and Firebase
Featuring Mike McDonald
The button was a game and social experiment run on Reddit from 1 Apr 2015 to 5 Jun 2015. The idea was simple: a 60 second countdown timer next to a reset button. When users pressed the button at a specific time, they would also be assigned a specific colour: purple if between 52 and 60 seconds,...
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Building Realtime Mobile and IoT Apps with Firebase
Featuring Mike McDonald
Building mobile apps that interact with hardware? Having trouble bridging the gap between low level devices and the cloud? This talk explores IoT from three perspectives: devices, the cloud, and mobile apps.
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