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Stories About Developers and Their Lives

Life is long. A series of chapters as you move from one scene to the next. Childhood, becoming a young adult, possibly a parent at some poin...

What do you do when your voice gains an audience? Do you rattle cages or open doors? That's what we talk about in this episode. Scott talks...

How does our Faith drive us? Do you have Faith in yourself and your abilities, and how do you know you're on the right path? In this episode...

In this episode of This Developer's Life we ask the hard questions about space. Why aren't we on Mars? Why haven't we gone back to the moon?...

Big thanks from both my wife and myself for the outpouring of support after our Cancer announcement . Last year was a long year and the Canc...

Where does drama come from? How do we react to it? How much drama can be created by simple semicolon? This week we explore The Great Semicol...

How many empty brain cells do you have in your head? How capable are you of learning something completely new, and retaining what you alread...

You're so old! What a dinosaur! You're using old software and old languages to do old things! Or are you? Scott and Rob talk to David Sokol,...

What do you do when you're not staring at your computer screen? What obsession grips you as you drive home? In this episode we ask David Hei...

Who cares about typefaces and why should you? Well, these guys do and you should start caring. Rob and Scott explore the world of reading on...

What is taste? What is style? Do you have it? Scott and Rob have no idea what it is or how to get it - but they know it's important. In this...

Scott and Rob discuss the value of a degree - and talk to two developers who used their passion to pull them through school and into their c...

Scott and Rob talk to a group of Top Gun developers: the StackOverflow team, about the day their database melted - and how the team responde...

In this episode we talk to three developers about criticism - some they've given and some they've received. In addition we talk to a very vo...

In this special episode we explore the Egyptian revolution. We talk to Remon Zakaria about his experience writing software for a day job and...

Rob Sullivan talks about his obsessiveness and how it helps him, and hinders him in his job. Rory Blythe and Scott then talk openly about Ro...

In this episode we talk to competitors who are also programmers. Or, programmers who also compete. Are coders pre-wired for this? Jon Skeet,...

In this episode Scott and Rob talk to 4 entrepreneurs about the risks they take, and what's happened as a result. Dave Nielsen, Tom Preston-...

In this episode Scott and Rob talk to Chad Myers, Chad Fowler, and Doug Rohrer about the scars they've received from dead end projects they'...

This week it's just Scott and me - Scott gets to go off to Disneyland with his wife and 2 boys, and I get to hang out with my girls for a we...

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...

In this episode Scott and I talk to 2 people with fairly different stories, about what motivates them Scott talks to Brad Wilson , Senior De...

In this episode Scott and I talk to 3 developers who have pulled off some pretty audacious maneuvers. John Resig , Creator of jQuery, decide...

In this episode Scott and I discuss "what you need to know as a software developer". How many layers of abstraction do you need to understan...

In the first story, I talk to David Heinemeier Hansson creator of Ruby on Rails, partner at 37Signals and author of Rework about the inspira...

In the first story Scott shares his experience on being 'outted' at a former company, where his name sat beside 7 of the 10 top entries on a...

image from XKCD In this week's This Developer's Life that's what I take a look at, from 3 perspectives: Mike Moore (Ruby developer) talks ab...

In the first story I talk to John Sheehan , a developer who's active on Twitter and is establishing himself in the Open Source community. Th...

I talk to 2 developers in this episode, and toss in a story from myself at the end: The first story comes from Sara J Chipps a Microsoft dev...