Extroverted Developer

Month: July 2012

  • Extroverted Developer #16 – Chris Smith

    This week Ben and I get a chance to geek out with Chris Smith, author of Programming F#, about the recently completed second edition. Chris is a former SDET on the Microsoft F# team, and currently works for Google on developer tools.

    Show Notes

    • Lots of stuff about F#
    • History of functional programming
    • What are monads?
    • What are you doing at the Google?
    • Google closure compiler *terrible name, has nothing to do with ‘Closure’ on the JVM

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  • Git p4 alias on Windows

    Because this information is apparently not available anywhere on the internet I’m going to write it here:

    git config —global alias.p4 !‘“C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\git-p4.py”’

    Please note that it’s single quote, then double quote, and closes double quote, single quote

    Or inside your .gitconfig this is what it should look like:

    [alias]

    p4 = !’C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\git-p4.py’

    This is with git 1.7.10.msysgit.1, on Windows 7 x64. YMMV on other configurations.

  • Extroverted Developer #15

    This week Ben and I riff on some news stories along with friend and ZocDoc developer, Jeremy Kimball.

    Show Notes

    • Please ‘Like’ us on Facebook by clicking the Like button on the side of the site
    • Device independent pixels and the ‘rem’ unit in CSS/HTML. As well as device independent pixels in WPF, and Android development.
    • Craigslist takes down pad mapper
    • Ben and I disagree on whether Craigslist a net good, or evil in the world?
    • Profits per employee for various companies
    • I talk about a specific company that took the pivoting of lean startup too far and actually abandoned customers who paid money too quickly.
    • CityMaps has had a big release, and everyone should go check out the new layout and city’s available

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