Make Better Software
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- Website
- http://www.fogcreek.com
- Description
- Interviews with makers about how they build great software
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2021-06-27 23:48
- last episode published
- 2015-10-29 09:29
- publication frequency
- 16.67 days
- Contributors
- Dockercast
- Owner
- Fog Creek
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 17
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Technology
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2015-10-29 |
Justin Searls - The Problems with Open Source (and How to Fix Them) In this interview with Justin Searls, Co-Founder at development agency Test Double, we discuss issues in open source software and what we can do about them. Justin raises problems for both consumers and contributors - like managing hundreds of dependen... |
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| 2015-10-27 | In this interview with Ed Finkler, Lead Developer and Head of Developer Culture at Graph Story, we discuss soft skills that are important for developers. We dive into how things like humility and empathy impact your effectiveness as a developer, as wel... |
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| 2015-10-12 |
Yitzchok Willroth - From Talmudic Maxims to Software Engineering Excellence In this interview with Yitzchok Willroth, aka CodeRabbi, we discuss how he has applied Talmudic Maxims to improve Software Engineering practices at Grovo. We cover how in teaching others we can develop ourselves, the benefits of pair programming, how y... |
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| 2015-10-02 |
Coraline Ada Ehmke - Refactoring to a Happier Development Team In this interview with Coraline Ada Ehmke, Lead Software Engineer at Instructure, we discuss data-driven refactoring and developer happiness teams. Coraline gives some great advice on the kinds of tests we should write for refactoring, tools to use and... |
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| 2015-09-28 | In this interview with Oren Ellenbogen, author of 'Leading Snowflakes', we discuss development team leadership. We dive into the things great engineering managers focus on, how to 'code review' management decisions, keep code quality high and developer... |
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| 2015-09-21 | In this podcast, coinciding with Fog Creek’s 15th Anniversary, we take a look back over the years at the various successes and failures we’ve had at Fog Creek. We discuss the early days of Fog Creek and how we recovered from a doomed first product. As... |
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| 2015-09-17 |
Kerri Miller - We're Bad at Interviewing Developers (and How to Fix It) In this interview with Kerri Miller, Lead Software Engineer at LivingSocial, we discuss how to hire and interview developers. We typically don't get trained on interviewing and we've all experienced the haphazard approaches of those new to it - poor o... |
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| 2015-09-04 | In this interview with Matt Wynne, Co-founder of Cucumber Ltd. and author of The Cucumber Book, we discuss Behavior-driven Development. We go into the typical problems Agile teams have, and how BDD can help. Including the importance of conversations, a... |
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| 2015-08-17 | In this interview with Kate Heddleston, an independent Product Engineer, we discuss technical onboarding. We cover why onboarding is important, the essential elements to effectively onboard engineers, the areas you should focus on, who should do it as ... |
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| 2015-08-14 | In this interview with Rachel Ober, Senior Developer at Paperless Post, we discuss developer mentoring. Rachel teaches us the lessons learned from mentoring developers at Paperless Post, General Assembly, Turing School and beyond. These cover how to ge... |
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