This Developer's Life

1.0.7 Audacity


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In this episode Scott and I talk to 3 developers who have pulled off some pretty audacious maneuvers.
* John Resig [http://ejohn.org/], 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 [http://al3x.net/], former API Developer Lead at Twitter, talks about the (somewhat insane) move to leave Twitter, and (somewhat more insane) choice to 'reinvent banking' with BankSimple [http://banksimple.com/].
* Miguel de Icaza [http://tirania.org/blog/], founder of the GNOME project and creator of Mono talks about creating a clone of the .NET framework - all because he didn't like what else was out there at the time for Linux.
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