December 2010
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1.0.9 Management
devlife: In this episode Scott and I talk to technical folks who have moved on up to Management - and what it means to them. Mark Freedman shares his story about clawing his way out of a successful career as a manager at a rather large, growing company. A good job, lots of respect, and he hates it. Bertrand LeRoy talks about charting his own path right at Microsoft after graduating with a...
Dec 23rd
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1.0.8 Motivation
devlife: In this episode Scott and I talk to 2 people with fairly different stories, about what motivates them: Scott talks to Brad Wilson, Senior Developer on the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC team about what motivates him to get out of bed and come to work every day at a high-intensity company, surrounded by brilliant people. Rob talks to Rob Sullivan, a database administrator at a large company,...
Dec 23rd
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1.0.7 Audacity
devlife: In this episode Scott and I talk to 3 developers who have pulled off some pretty audacious maneuvers: John Resig, Creator of jQuery, decided to write yet another javascript framework when there were already quite a few to choose from. Not only did he succeed, he changed web development forever. Alex Payne, former API Developer Lead at Twitter, talks about the (somewhat insane) move...
Dec 23rd
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