Mark Essien
I'm a software developer in mobile and embedded
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Period: 2010 - ongoingLanguage/Environment: PHPMy Role: ArchitectDescription: The SalesPanelPro is a web based tool for viewing and managing sales of iPhone Apps. I designed the basic architecture of the project, then managed a single developer and a designer to complete the project. Uses Amazon SimpleDB & a lot of delayed processing.
Period: 2008 - ongoingLanguage/Environment: Objective C/iOS & Java/AndroidMy Role: Developer & ConsultantDescription: Since 2008, I've been developing mobile applications. About 300 applications have been released where I was responsible for the code & concept, and more than 50 of them have hit the App Store charts, both free and paid.The applications include:- Recipes for iPad/iPhone: iPhone/iPad applications with various recipes
- Art you should know: A collection of the top art since the 1600s
- Freakish Animals, a fun application about animals
- Short Stories, a book reading application
- Science Tap, a science quiz application
- ZombieRun, a side-scroller game built on cocos2d
Additionally, I've completed the following applications as part of other teams:- TimeJumper: A augumented reality project for the iPhone that used the current location to overlay pictures of the past on the camera viewfinder.
- Strategy Pong: Two player pong for the iPad built on the cocos2d platform
Period: 2007 - 2008My Role: Developer, Designer, Co-FounderLanguage/Environment: Django/PythonDescription: Ingolingo is a website for quickly learning the vocabulary of a foreign language. I came up with the idea, developed it in Python/Django, and successfully brought it to market with the help of my BizDev Co-Founder Mihai Daraban. It was acquired in 2008.
Period: 2007-2010My Role: Developer & DesignerLanguage/Environment: Python/DjangoDescription: Licensekey.net is a project management tool with an emphasis on organizing sales - reacting to pricing requests and tracking them. It's a web application written in python and django. It's currently used to manage the sales of the standard mpeg encoder.
Period: 2004 - ongoingMy Role: DeveloperLanguage/Environment: C++Description: I've released several small open source projects, and two large projects. The two large ones are DiscRecord, an open source CD-Burning library for windows, and P2P, an open source ActiveX control that implements the OpenNap protocol (ex-napster protocol). They can be found on my Github page.
Period: 2004 - ongoingMy Role: Sole DeveloperLanguage/Environment: C++/Assembler on Microsoft Visual Studio 6 & GCCProject Description: The Standard Mpeg Encoder is a DirectShow filter that plugs into Windows software and allows the software encoding of Audio and Video samples to MPEG. The encoder is based off ffmpeg. I did the development for the project in C++ (and a little bit of assembler). The software is sold at standardmpeg.com and is used by more than 400 companies, including military and educational institutions. The GPL source code can be viewed on GitHub.
Period: 2001-2004Role: Developer on contractLanguage/Environment: C++ & C#Description: Between the years of 2001 and 2004, I was an active Rent-A-Coder (now called VWorker) programmer. I was ranked #2 coder on the site. Projects completed on Rent-A-Coder include- BRG Bells, a high precision church bells automation system
- DV-Capture, a tool to capture DV video from camcorders. Written in VC++.NET with the DirectShow SDK
- Video Editor, a DirectShow Editing Services based video editor, written in VC#.NET and DirectShow, with ATL/COM components written in C++
- Universal Video Player, a video player that integrated all major media SDKs. It was written in VC++ and used the Microsoft DirectShow SDK, Real Media SDK, and Apple Quicktime SDK
- Torrent Client, an ActiveX control that connected to BitTorrent networks downloaded files. Written VC++ 6
- TickViewer, a high performance and high data volume stock ticks display tool. Written in Visual C++.
- BHOs, various Internet Explorer Browser Helper Objects / Extensions
- IRC/XDCC Transfer Client full featured clients that allowed transfer of files over IRC using the XDCC protocol. Written in C#.net & VC++.NET/ATL/WTL
- CD Burner ActiveX Control using SPTI and ASPI, low level interfacing with CD burner devices to write data directly to discs.
Period: 2000-2001Role: Developer in a teamLanguage/Environment: Visual C++ 6Project Description: At Snoopstar.com, a small startup funded by Bertelsmann Media, I worked on two projects: a file-sharing client, where I was responsible for the development of the user interface in C++ and the Win32 API. The second project was a client for TV cards based off DirectShow. The startup was shutdown at the end of the dotcom boom.
Period: 1999-2000Role: Sole DeveloperLanguage/Environment: Visual Basic 6
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Tweets
- Psychiatrist Dr. running for dear life. Madman with knife chasing him. Reaches locked door. Madman reaches, gives knife: Your turn to chase
- @OoTheNigerian Everything after the # is interpreted by the user agent (client side). http://t.co/jutvV1tW
- @OoTheNigerian You need to drop the # from your url, even twitter is dropping theirs. And set your login session length to never-expire
- Speaking of Hunger Games, I will never subject my children to what I went through in the name of FGC. Suffering should not be hereditary
- Have two tickets for the Hunger Games tomorrow.
- @mukoshy @UberFacts Out of its ass!
- @LanieMontel No...alcoholism
- Just in case they capture me like they did that time
- One thing I've learnt after that time I got quarantined for having malaria is to always visit the doctors with a laptop and some books
- It's easiest to do things you will deeply regret when you are in a crowd of people shouting and encouraging.
- Then there is Ecowas and neighbouring countries, who have had idle soldiers for a while. West Africa has a strong interest in democracy now
- We have Toureg fighters in north. We have Govt Loyal fighters. Then we have Coupists. Either coup will fail or civil war.
- I really doubt the Mali Coup is going to succeed though. Mali has been democratic too long, and there is no really major discontent
- So the coup was so that a war can start. Note that these Toureg fighters they want to battle are Gadaffi trained mercenaries
- The thing with the Mali Coup is that the soldiers took over because the civilians were not allowing them battle the Touregs
- The tuaregs who where in Libyas army are now jobless and are armed with weapons nato dropped from the skies. So they captured malian towns
- The current coup and conflict in Mali is a direct result of the war in Libya
- I've answered all my emails. If you wrote me an email and I did not answer it yet, then write again cos I'm not going to reply it. It's lost
- @nkemifejika Spoilers
- @Julian_Obubo Will dl that when it's up, always good stuff
- What is up with all these people saying "apprentice"! I feel like I'm missing something
- @Julian_Obubo UK or US?
- @Julian_Obubo Black…very frankly, the only difference between it and my ipad2 is that my ipad2 is much more smudged
- I'm soon going to be setting up my linkedin profile, so you can add me: http://t.co/bsDmtrub
- I am going to switch my webserver from Apache to Nginx. Everyone seems to have done that already.
- Today I suffered from a mini-burnout. Unable to work, just being useless in front of the PC
- I've realised something. 96.3% of the things people write on facebook is utterly worthless information. I never needed to know that.
- @LanieMontel Send me a sample first, maybe it won't work for me?
- @LanieMontel Amazing. Get me some of them
- Also, made a @hotelsnigeria redesign to remove that map on the right. Its cool but usability testing says nobody uses it. Sucks 4 mobile too
- Removed all the ajax from hotels-nigeria site. Ajax caused so much trouble. Working on opera mini site now + smarty templates
- iHave iPad3
- I now have two 2 terabyte HDs in my PC + 1 500mb and a 128SSD. The 2 terabytes just mirror each other. For photos, videos and so on
- @LanieMontel 419 energy drink. Btw, I like that your background pic on your twitter. Just a tiny hint of perky boob
- @LanieMontel An energy drink without caffeine is just juice, isn't it?
- What I would love is a music service that allows me make 12-song collections of my very best songs in a genre. With cheesy album covers.
- @LordMajestros dhl
- I'm always consumed by ideas and things, which is why I like working with stable people who don't drift as much. Intellectual anchors
- It's bad to have too many ideas, but it's worse to have only one idea you keep chasing because you can't think of anything else
- Remember those 30kg of books I sent back in january to nigeria. Just arrived today, badly battered and with a stephen king missing.
- @Julian_Obubo No spoilers! I'm getting mine tomorrow!
- @Julian_Obubo Your tweet looks so much more detailed!
- @SexyCalabarBabe Twitter is for business...normal chat via fb
- @SexyCalabarBabe Add me on facebook: http://t.co/Vvvh1CIj
- @miz_estaa No, what's Saw. Jaws is with the sharks...
- @ElaineOmozusi It's not a high horse. There are no absolute rights or wrongs. The protests are as wrong as they are right. Recognize.
- @EditiEffiong Yes, but is this really going too be a revolution? Or will it end when people have their fuel prices?
- @EditiEffiong It's not criticism. I'm pointing out what I see as flaws. For change to happen, it needs to be effective.
- @seyitaylor @gbengasesan I will spend as much as I can to make the country better. I will also point out where I think effort is wasted.
- @seyitaylor @gbengasesan @budgITng I could build it myself, but it's better to have a single location and not fragmented.
- @gbengasesan There are many ways to force change. My personal conviction is that citizen auditing is more effective than street marching.
- @gbengasesan @seyitaylor Personally, I believe in transparency. E.g, I promised 30k donation to @budgITng if they add a budget wiki
- @gbengasesan @seyitaylor Protests *should* be done to bring attention to issues. But the *reason* for the protest should not be money
- @gbengasesan @seyitaylor And all those messages got drowned in the simplistic 'reduce fuel prices' theme. Fuel price lowered, protest gone.
- @seyitaylor @gbengasesan I will likely never stand on the streets to 'protest'. But I will effect change in other more effective ways.
- @seyitaylor I never agreed with the protests in the first place. I think they were misplaced and about the wrong thing.
- @gbengasesan @seyitaylor I won't protest, till the protest is for something real and concrete, and that will change the country.
- @DoubleEph The same way you protest against corruption. Express your dissatisfaction with the status-quo.
- @seyitaylor I wish it were. I wish that in 6 months, we can say that our country is different. But when I look, I see no changes.
- @seyitaylor I want to see a self-less protest. Not one motivated by money. One motivate by real desire for change. This one was not that.
- @seyitaylor I know they were cancelled, but those were protests against fuel price still. Where is the boko haram protest? Or against bombs?
- @seyitaylor then why are people sitting at home and not protesting boko haram?
- I wish so much I were wrong, but the events of the day have done nothing to make me believe I am wrong.Jan 21, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Don't idealize the voice of the masses. The people just didn't want to spend more on fuel. They care nothing about corruption or waste.Jan 21, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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Repositories
- A quick and dirty way to use HTML5 in native apps2 forks / 3 watchers / Pushed Jan 10, 12
- 1 fork / 3 watchers / Pushed Jun 14, 11
- Low level C/C++ reading of the data on a CD using SCSI1 fork / 1 watcher / Pushed Oct 23, 10
- A filter that will take a series of images and transform them in a way that makes a gentle motion effect across them1 fork / 1 watcher / Pushed Oct 23, 10
- Fork of the appdailysales.py script with support for multiple accounts1 fork / 1 watcher / Pushed Sep 15, 10
- Graph App Store Sales. Download pre-compiled binaries at website.1 watcher / Pushed Feb 15, 10
