Mike Pinkowish

Skier, College Student, Web Developer, And Much More

GoFishn Alpha Launch

September 1, 2009

GoFishn officially launched its alpha version today.  After over a year of hard work on the team’s and my part, it’s satisfying to see a project reach this level of completion.  There’s still lots to be done, and the next few months promise to be busy as we work towards the next launch.
Alpha invites will [...]

Google Was Great (In So Many Ways)

August 13, 2009

For the past 12 weeks, I was a software engineering intern at Google on the Google Earth team.  Spending 3 months in California was one of the most fun and interesting experiences I’ve had in a while, and I miss being out there.
When I first arrived in California, I was greeted by nicer weather and [...]

Post-Google Redesign

August 12, 2009

I just redesigned the site in order to do a few things:

Cleaner layout
HTML 5
CSS 3

Just looking at the site, you’ll wonder where all the HTML 5 is.  All of it is under the hood.  I’m taking advantage of the <header>, <nav>, <article>, and <footer> tags to improve the mark up on my site.  In fact, [...]

cliqDNA is Live

July 19, 2009

About three weeks I caught wind of the Cliqset Developer Challenge on their email list. After brainstorming and digging around their API documentation, I came up with the idea for cliqDNA, a cool web app which gives you a perspective on how you use the web and how your habits compare with the Cliqset [...]

Okemo Mountain is now on Google Earth!

June 4, 2009

Recently, I’ve been working on a project involving custom Google Earth layers  in my spare time.  Using Earth, I mapped out the trails of Okemo Mountain’s Jackson Gore Peak.  If you enable terrain and tilt the view, you can get some really cool perspectives of Okemo as you zoom around.
Download the Okemo layer!