Archive for March, 2010

Mar201009

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Community vs. Company

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For a long time there have been disagreements of where the line is drawn between communities who produce software and companies who invest in those communities and their software. Based upon a shot suggestion from Félim Whiteley, Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge explore where the line could be drawn, the challenges in attitudes that we face and whether we could ever find inner peace between community and company.

Remember, you are the next step in the conversation and we are absolutely gagging to hear your thoughts! What do you think? Can a fair balance be drawn between community and company? Can companies do the right thing? Do communities give companies too much of a raw deal? Are all companies fundamentally evil? Should there even be a line? Share your thoughts in the show comments below…

Mar201005

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Bridging The Bug Gap

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Bugs are part and parcel of software: human beings make software, and human beings make mistakes. Handling this influx of defects, errors and oopses is a complex job in itself, but the real challenge is how we bridge the gap between developers and users. Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge explore the nuances of how we bridge this gap, whether it is possible and what opportunities we face if we get it right.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, we are the very start of the conversation, so let’s dial up the heat and make this a rocking conversation by you good folks sharing your thoughts on how we bridge the bug gap. What do you think? What is your experience with bug reporting, how do you think it can be improved? What are your observations on the cultural differences between developers and users? Join the conversation in the shot comments below…

Mar201002

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Going Async

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In a world overflowing with data and networks in which information doubles in size seemingly every day, programming has had to change, banishing conventional procedural programming for asynchronously written apps able to handle information whenever it arrives without causing problems. Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge explore how important async is, and why it is just so confusing to so many coders.

Remember, we are just the very start of the conversation! What do you think? Is async really that hard? Is it really that important? What is your experience with going async? Share your thoughts in the shot comments below…

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