Mike Pinkowish

Skier, College Student, Web Developer, And Much More

How to Prepare for Phone Interviews

February 24, 2010

Phone interviews are tough, especially for software engineering, user interface, and other tech positions. Background noise on either end, shoddy audio quality, and just the fact that you’re not sitting face-to-face with your interviewer make for a trying experience.  Having gone through a bunch of phone interviews (4 with Google and 2 with Facebook) [...]

Pulse of the Planet

February 6, 2010

Pulse of the Planet is a project of mine to visualize tweets in real-time on a map.  It’s powered by Google’s App Engine (Python) and uses the Twitter Search API and Google’s Maps (v3) and Geocoder API.
Besides looking cool, Pulse offers a way to visualize local trends and how many people talk about different subjects. [...]