This Developer's Life

In the first story Scott shares his experience on being 'outted' at a former company, where his name sat beside 7 of the 10 top entries on a list of 'what not to do to code'. Scott then interviews Cyra Richardson - a program manager at Microsoft with a rather strong opinion about the changes she's seen in the company over the last 20 years. Finally, I spend some time talking to Giles Bowkett and h...

image from XKCD In this week's This Developer's Life that's what I take a look at, from 3 perspectives: Mike Moore (Ruby developer) talks about personal skills for solving problems, including the ability to ask a different question. Javier Lozano (Microsoft developer) talks about teams coming together as a 'band of brothers', solving problems that may, or may not, exist. Tamar Cohen (Java develope...

In the first story I talk to John Sheehan , a developer who's active on Twitter and is establishing himself in the Open Source community. The second story comes from Scott Hanselman - one of the biggest names (if not *the* biggest) in the Microsoft community. Technical Note: You'll notice that the first story's audio isn't ideal. John was using an analog mic that picked up some EM hum that I neede...

I talk to 2 developers in this episode, and toss in a story from myself at the end: The first story comes from Sara J Chipps a Microsoft developer who lives on the East Coast. The second story comes from Oren Eine (Ayende Rahien) about what life as a prison commander in Israel taught him about his career. And finally there's me (Rob) - talking about the "Coyote Contract" that was doomed to fail. S...