Extroverted Developer #3 - Jared Parsons

On this week’s episode Ben and I talk with Jared Parsons, a lead developer at Microsoft working in Developer Tools division (Visual Studio). Author of the very popular (and free) VsVim extension for Visual Studio 2010 and #10 on Stackoverflow in total rep.

Show Notes:

• In this show we talk about VsVimthe hugely popular free extension that adds Vim bindings to Visual Studio 2010 (written in F#).
• We talk about Vim vs Emacs a bit.
• Social coding and github
• Stackoverflow and Jared’s rise to, at one time, #4 in the SO ranking.
• Gamification of helping others
• Value of code comments
• Dynamic vs static typing
• What’s the correct level of abstraction?
• JavaScript: The Good Parts

Pro Tips:

• Jared: git stash (as mentioned on hearding code #132)
• Jim: Visual Studio Multi-targeting
• Ben: f.lux

Shameless name drops:

• Jared Parsons
• Chris A Smith
• Miguel De Icaza
• Joel Spolsky
• Vance Morrison
• Jon Skeet

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Extroverted Developer #3 - Jared Parsons

Comments

[Andrew Robinson]

Great podcast, this episode was really well done, keep up the good work. I'm subscribed and looking forward to future updates!

[svaha]

Great podcast! Really enjoyed it and looking forward to more.