Episode 17: Browser Roundup

This week Jon leads a discussion on the new crop of browsers:

  • What’s new in Google Chrome
  • Comparison of Javascript engines
  • What does crazy-fast Javascript mean?
  • Is Webkit taking over? Why’s Firefox sticking with Gecko?
  • IE8 Compatibility Mode – Will it save us from IE6?
  • Is it time for the IE team to try “File/New/Browser”?
  • Do web standards mean anything when IE doesn’t support them?
  • Where does Silverlight fit in?
  • Objective-J

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Herding Code 17: Browser Roundup
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Episode 16: Interviewing Software Developers

This week Kevin leads a discussion on interviewing software developers:

  • What interview styles we find effective
  • What sort of questions actually help us evaluate a candidate
  • Why API trivia and puzzle questions don’t work
  • Hiring mistakes we’ve made based on errors in our interview style
  • Why we don’t do very well when the tables are turned and it’s our turn to be interviewed

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Herding Code 16: Interviewing Software Developers
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Episode 15: Chris Tavares on Unity, P&P, Rotor, MVC, and EntLib

Chris TavaresThis week we talk with Chris Tavares, a developer on the Microsoft patterns & practices team, where he was the lead developer on Unity. He is also a virtual member of the ASP.NET MVC team, helping to design the new framework. Back in the day, he helped test out the effect of reference counting on .NET by building an experimental version of Rotor.

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Herding Code 15: Chris Tavares
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Episode 14: Jeff Atwood (CodingHorror.com) talks about StackOverflow

This week, we talk with Jeff Atwood (of codinghorror.com fame) about his soon to be released developer Q&A site, StackOverflow.com.

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