Extroverted Developer #20

This week Ben and I just chit chat about some goings on around NYC in technology. I kinda talk a lot this episode.

Show Notes

• iPhone 5
• Maker Fair was this weekend
• 3D Printing
• Micro controllers !!!! (obviously my favorite topic)
• Arduino
• DIY: An iPhone controlled A/C
• Raspberry Pi (only place I’ve found that has them in stock is here
• The EPA was at Maker Fair doing great stuff with micro controllers and UAV Helicopters
• Adobe’s new open source font for coding: Source Code Pro
• Siri and the future of computer interface
• The US Government has open sourced some things
• AskPatents launches
• My question about risk to engineers for looking at patents

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Extroverted Developer #19 - Brian Guthrie

This week Ben and I talk with Thoughtworks developer Brian Guthrie about learning computer science, agile development and Test Driven Development.

Show Notes

• Khan Academy revamped CS program
• Inventing on Principle
• Steve Yeggie’s Conservative vs Liberal programmers rant
• Jonathan Haidt on the moral mind. (conservatives vs liberals on morality, very insightful)
• Jim offer’s up that it might be good to write custom plugins for your IDE that are specific to your office
• Sublime Build files for common build systems
• TDD (finally)

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Extroverted Developer #18 - Gayle Laakmann McDowell

This week Ben and I talk with Author, Entrepreneur and owner of careercup.com, former Google hiring committee member Gayle Laakmann McDowell about her two books: Cracking the Coding Interview and The Google Resume about how to get a job at the big tech companies

Show Notes

• Interview preparation for Software Engineers looking to get into Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc.
• How do technical interviews work at the large tech companies?
• Resume tips for the professional programmer!
• On MBAs
• The Seattle Anti-Freeze

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Extroverted Developer #17 - 2TonStudios

This week Ben and I talk with indy game developer 2TonStudios about their new iOS game: Ninjaboy

Show Notes

• Why program video games?
• Performance and how video games are the indy 500 of programming
• Carmack’s Keynote
• Optimizing the challenge curve.
• Why choose Unity?
• Tried MonoTouch and MonoGame for the initial port from Windows Phone 7
• How’s the $0.99 price point working? (no longer first marketing, we took too long to get the show out)
• How much does marketing play a role?
• Why is the price point so low for iOS games, when DS games are ~$30?
• Can’t pay for updates? Use In App Purchases
• How should people start? Should they try and get into digipen?

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Extroverted Developer Shorts - Knight Capital

Ben and I chat quickly about what happened this week at Knight Capital. How a software bug took a profitable company to bankruptcy in 1 hour.

Show Notes

• Technical explanation on Nanex
• John Carmack’s 2012 Quakecon keynote

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