Episode 7: Mike Swaine and Paul Freiberger Fire in the Valley

Michael Swaine and Paul Freiberger on the third edition of their book Fire in the Valley Best known as the editor of Dr. Dobb's Journal, Michael Swaine created or helped launch a dozen magazines, from InfoWorld to PragPub. He has written more than a thousand articles and columns for publications ranging from the Farmer's Almanac to MacUser. He currently edits books for the Pragmatic Bookshelf and is working on a mystery novel set in the mythical Northwest State of Jefferson. Paul Freiberger wrote about Silicon Valley during the early years of the personal computer revolution. He was part of the original staff of the computer weekly, InfoWorld. He worked as a columnist and reporter for the San Jose Mercury News and the San Francisco Examiner. His first book was Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer (McGraw-Hill, 1984 and 2000), co-authored with Michael Swaine. Today he writes speeches, books, and white papers for executives, professionals, and academics and develops presentations for startups. He is founder and President of Shimmering Resumes. He graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton with a BA in History and from Middlebury College with a Masters in Italian Studies. Chris Adamson on What's Happening Chris Adamson will be presenting a workshop on AVFoundation Film School on the CocoaConf fall tour. Chris blogs at . Conferences he mentioned are: Josh Smith recommended two books this week Post Office (Bukowski) The Midnight Disease (Flaherty) Laura Savino on getting the help you need Laura is an iOS developer with Khan Academy who came to programming after having studied & taught human languages. She recently had the chance to give some advice to beginning programmers at App Camp for Girls, and helped them learn & practice a few techniques for getting unstuck. James Dempsey composed and performed the theme Daniel Steinberg is your host. He has a new book out on the Swift Programming language. "A Swift Kickstart" Daniel is also the author of "Developing iOS 7 Apps for iPad and iPhone" @dimsumthinking @cocoaconfcast

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This episode was published on Aug 29, 2014.

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