About
Who Am I?
My real name is actually Howard Wolosky. I actually had a blog going for a while on one of my many other domains, but decided that QuackFu was a lot catchier and easier to remember (I hope).
I’m a developer on Windows Mobile at Microsoft. Specifically, I’m on the “phone” team, which is responsible for all the functionality that lets you use your Smartphone or Pocket PC Phone Edition as an actual telecommunications device. I’ve been on that team since March 2006. Prior to that, I worked on internal tools (setup and release related) for Visual Studio for 4.5 years. Prior to that, I interned as an SDET (tester) on a feature of Visual Studio that I’d bet most people have no idea is even there.
Way before my Microsoft gigs, I did eCommerce programming for about 4 years, sold my own message board software called The Pubb, and had a Y2K compliance search engine, called Will It Work?. Those were all some really interesting experiences that I’m sure will get their own blog entries in the upcoming months.
QuackFu?
“What is the original of QuackFu,” you ask? Well, there was once this movie called Howard the Duck, which itself was based on a comic book, but I digress. In the movie, Howard, the star character, mentioned that he was “a master of Quack Fu.” Well, given that my name is Howard, my childhood mind (I was in single digits at the time I first saw the movie) quickly latched onto the phrase. I started using QuackFu for some of my gaming on online personas, and eventually decided to pick up the domain as well. I’m hoping that I can teach my own version of Quack Fu (coding) through this site.
What can you expect to read about here?
I may talk about Windows Mobile here on this blog once in a while, or even what it’s like to work at Microsoft — but primarily I think I’ll be writing about some personal projects that I’m working on, and tips/tricks/problems that I run into on the way. I also have a lot of interesting stories on what it was like to run my own company during college and the lessons learned, that I’m hoping I can pass on to future college folk and the like.