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.
Author: Jim Wallace
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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
ProTips
- Jim: Alan Kay interview on Dr. Dobbs
- Ben: JS Hotline
- Chris: “Give yourself license to fail” AND Unix tools! (sed, grep, find, etc)
- Stay away from Diablo III!
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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.
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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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Extroverted Developer #14 – Santos Cordon
Today Ben and I interview former Microsoftie turned Googler, Santos Cordon about programming.
Show Notes
- How did you get into programming?
- Learning about computers back in the dos/windows days
- Ti Calculator programming.
- How did you get to Microsoft?
- Your work on Office
- What brought you to NY?
- The most important thing for an individual developer’s quality is actually using the software.
- Interviewing and what it can tell you about a company.
- How would you interview developers for your own company?
- Design patterns and over engineering.
- Software Engineering practices in general.
- Writing services vs writing shrink wrap software.
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Extroverted Developer #13
This week Ben and I slightly change the format of the podcast to talk about some more current events type things.
Show Notes
- The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
- Food On the Table – MapItPrices with a better business model.
- We need more scientific thinking in business
- Archive.org and the need for archiving the internet by an independent 3rd party and not in the hands of the likes of Facebook
- Library of Congress archives Tweets
- Tech Support in the middle ages
- NYC Water Gun Fight 2012
- NYC Free Summer Concerts
- Why can’t we use compilers to remember the differences in browsers, just like C/C++ compiles to different architectures.
- Google has tried this with Dart and hasn’t been successful.
- Try Haxe
- Apple had a bunch of announcements at WWDC
- High DPI displays are going to be the next revolution in computing, and it’s about time.
- How ClearType works
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Extroverted Developer #12 – Jonathan Baker
This week Ben and I talk with Director of Mobility Evangelism at SAP, located in our nations capitol, about mobile database technologies and software engineering.
Show Notes
- Sybase acquisition by SAP.
- Mobile databases and small footprint databases.
- SAP making a play on Oracle.
- Do you still get to code?
- Building mobile application development is just beginning for many enterprises.
- What are the main challenges for dealing with enterprise and mobile?
- How does the iPhone play with enterprise customers?
- Microsoft tried multiple times to bring out bring out a tablet but can’t seem to get it working
- The future of mobile operating systems on full PCs and Laptops.
- Ben: The merge of mobile and desktop computing has been a great boon to UI design.
- UI design takes as much time as designing your system, algorithms and data structures.
- Developers vs DBAs.
- There’s no more debugging in ‘prod’ on mobile devices.
- The internet isn’t always on as much as we’d like it to be, and as such we need to store data locally for when there’s no connectivity.
- Software as a profession, do we need accreditation like lawyers and doctors?
- Many companies have tried this, A+, MCSE, IEEE and ACM certs, etc.
- Ben: Ultimately it all comes down to hiring, you wouldn’t hire a surgeon because he said he could do it.
- Managers need to read The Mythical Man Month (9 people can’t have a baby in 1 month)
- The App store model will make us all compete on software quality
- fun discussion of Uber and how it’s disrupting old business models
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Extroverted Developer #11 – We’re not dead yet
This week, Ben and I discuss why we haven’t had shows recently. A new venture called MapItPrices, and the news that Xamarin Studios has ported Android to C#
Show Notes
- MapItPrices
- Where’s the cheap beer?
- NYC Mentorship Program Accepting applications NOW!
- Xamarin ported Android to C# and mono
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Extroverted Developer #10 – Toby Muresianu
This week Ben and I chat with former Microsoftie turned Standup Comic, Toby Muresianu about careers in Software.
Show Notes
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Extroverted Developer #9
This week Ben and I chat during a CityMaps party about what it takes to be a computer programmer. How do you get into this field, and most importantly can anybody do it?
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