General
General brings together 100 interviews from 2011 to 2015. Recurring themes include developer community and conference conversations, conference speaking and presentation skills, and community building and user-group organizing. Featured interviewees include Angelique Martin, Dean Wampler, Giles Bowkett, and Aaron Bedra.
- Coverage: 100 interviews from 2011 to 2015.
- Featured interviewees: Angelique Martin, Dean Wampler, Giles Bowkett, Aaron Bedra, and Aaron Holbrook.
- Common themes: developer community and conference conversations, conference speaking and presentation skills, community building and user-group organizing, Ruby and Rails practice, and developer education and learning.
Notable Contributors
- Rebecca Parsons — CTO at Thoughtworks; noted technology strategy author/speaker. Focus: Technology strategy, architectural governance, and enterprise modernization. Interview
- Dean Wampler — Author and speaker on Scala, big data, and functional systems. Focus: Distributed systems, data platforms, and functional architecture. Interview
- Ola Bini — Co-creator of XMLBuilder for Ruby; language/runtime contributor. Focus: Language tooling, polyglot systems, and runtime architecture. Interview
- Sandro Mancuso — Co-founder of the London Software Craftsmanship community. Focus: Software craftsmanship practice, mentoring, and engineering standards. Interview
- Gary Bernhardt — Creator of Destroy All Software. Focus: Software design clarity, developer tooling, and code quality discipline. Interview
- Robert Martin — Agile Manifesto signatory; co-author of the Software Craftsmanship Manifesto; Clean Code author. Focus: Software craftsmanship, engineering professionalism, and sustainable delivery practices. Interview
- Brian Marick Interview
- Corey Haines Interview
- Giles Bowkett Interview
- Avdi Grimm Interview
- Andy Lester Interview
- Anita Sengupta Interview
Interviewee: Eric Kingery
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Eric Kingery organizes the Refactor::Chicago User-Group. Eric explains what Refactor is about and how it evolved from it’s previous incarnation as a PHP User-Group.
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Interviewee: Bill Scott
Topic: web development and frontend practice
Video description: Bill Scott leads the UI Engineering at PayPal and was before with NetFlix and Yahoo. He is also the author of O’Reilly book Designing Web Interfaces whose animal is the Cock-of-the-rock thus allowing us to rediscover that we’re both still 12 years old. Bill chats about the ongoing work inside…
Interviewee: Stephen Anderson
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Interview with Stephen Anderson on developer community and conference conversations. This recording captures practical lessons and perspective for software teams and technical communities.
Interviewee: Carina C Zona
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Interview with Carina C Zona on developer community and conference conversations. This recording captures practical lessons and perspective for software teams and technical communities.
Interviewee: Angelique Martin
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Interview with Angelique Martin on developer community and conference conversations. This recording captures practical lessons and perspective for software teams and technical communities.
Interviewee: Zachary Shaw
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Interview with Zachary Shaw on developer community and conference conversations. This recording captures practical lessons and perspective for software teams and technical communities.
Interviewee: Katrina Owen
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Interview with Katrina Owen on developer community and conference conversations. This recording captures practical lessons and perspective for software teams and technical communities.
Interviewee: Michael Ficarra
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Michael Ficarra has been working on a rewrite of the CoffeeScript compiler. He’s gone through an interesting path to get support for his work by running a successful Kickstarter campaign and partnering with Groupon to sponsor his work.
Interviewee: Rebecca Parsons
Topic: conference speaking and presentation skills
Video description: Interview with Rebecca Parsons at GOTO Conference 2015 on conference speaking and presentation skills. This recording captures practical lessons and perspective for software teams and technical communities.
Interviewee: Dean Wampler
Topic: conference speaking and presentation skills
Video description: Dean Wampler is a technology surfer, always riding the lip of the curve. Dean is a frequent speaker on AOP, Functional Programming with Scala, and Big Data as well as a user-group founder and author. Most recently he’s started the Chicago-Area Scala Enthusiasts (CASE) group. If you’re interested in Scala you need to checkout “Programming Scala” by Dean Wampler & Alex Payne.
Interviewee: Dave Duggal
Topic: conference speaking and presentation skills
Video description: Interview with Dave Duggal at GOTO Conference 2015 on conference speaking and presentation skills. This recording captures practical lessons and perspective for software teams and technical communities.
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Interviewee: Charles Nutter
Topic: conference speaking and presentation skills
Video description: Interview with Charles Nutter at GOTO Conference 2015 on conference speaking and presentation skills. This recording captures practical lessons and perspective for software teams and technical communities.
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Interviewee: Anita Sengupta
Topic: conference speaking and presentation skills
Video description: Interview with Anita Sengupta at GOTO Conference 2015 on conference speaking and presentation skills. This recording captures practical lessons and perspective for software teams and technical communities.
Interviewee: Gil Tene
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Interview with Gil Tene on developer community and conference conversations. This recording captures practical lessons and perspective for software teams and technical communities.
Interviewee: Giles Bowkett
Topic: ruby and rails practice
Video description: Interview with Giles Bowkett on Ruby and Rails practice. This recording captures practical lessons and perspective for software teams and technical communities.
Interviewee: Matt Ruby
Topic: ruby and rails practice
Video description: Interview with Matt Ruby on Ruby and Rails practice. This recording captures practical lessons and perspective for software teams and technical communities.
Interviewee: Ola Bini
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Interview with Ola Bini on developer community and conference conversations. This recording captures practical lessons and perspective for software teams and technical communities.
Interviewee: Kresten Thorup
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: What do you get when you cross a crab with a desire for technical community near you? Well, if that crab is Kresten Krab Thorup you end up with a global series of conferences that attract the highest quality speakers and attendees. GOTO, JAOO and Yow! are some of the major events that are put on by the good folks at Trifork throughout the year. They also organize smaller local events like GOTOnights and NoSql days.
Interviewees: Sandro Mancuso, Tom Brand
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Interview with Sandro Mancuso & Tom Brand on developer community and conference conversations. This recording captures practical lessons and perspective for software teams and technical communities.
Interviewee: Mike Burton
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Mike is the creator of the RoboGuice dependency injection framework for Android. We discuss some of the history of Android development and how he got hooked on the platform. Mike also authored the book Android Application Development for Dummies.
Interviewee: Mike Lee
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Mike Lee is the Mayor of Appsterdam, a global community of app makers that was originated in Amsterdam. One of the most fascinating things about Appsterdam is that they actually have data to backup the claim that a vibrant tech community is a Good Thing for the greater community they exist within. The University of Amsterdam conducted a study and published their data, you can read the report.
Interviewee: Mike Miller
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Interview with Mike Miller on developer community and conference conversations. This recording captures practical lessons and perspective for software teams and technical communities.
Interviewee: John Servin
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: John Servin is a long-time volunteer with the WebVisions conference. John describes how he got involved with the conference and has kept him going for over six years.
Interviewee: Jennifer Jones
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Jennifer Jones leads up the WebVisions Chicago 2013 conference. She took a few minutes out of a very busy schedule to chat about how she got involved with WebVisions and provided some insight into the history of the conference.
Interviewee: Jason Cranford Teague
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Prolific tech author and speaker, Jason Cranford Teague sat down for a bit at WebVisions 2013 in Chicago to discuss authoring and the evolution of print and digital technical publishing.
Interviewee: Carolyn Chandler
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Carolyn Chandler took some time to sit down and chat about her work teaching with the Starter League as well as her upcoming book focused on teaching UX concepts to new comers to UX/UI design concepts. We spoke a little bit about trying to reach a broad audience which reminded…
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Interviewee: Anna Lear
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Anna Lear is a Community Manager with Stack Exchange. We chat a bit about how she … Continue reading
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Interviewees: Anthony Zinni, Jon Buda, Shay Howe
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Interview with Anthony Zinni & Jon Buda & Shay Howe on developer community and conference conversations. This recording captures practical lessons and perspective for software teams and technical communities.
Interviewee: Charley Baker
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Interview with Charley Baker on developer community and conference conversations. This recording captures practical lessons and perspective for software teams and technical communities.
Interviewee: Chris Whitaker
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Chris is a Captain with The Code for America Brigade. The Code for America Brigade is a organization focused on developing civic hackers and building applications for the public good.
Interviewee: Dan North
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Dan North is an iconoclast who wrote the original treatise of BDD which ironically has become dogma. Dan and I chat about dogmatic thinking, the origin of the BDD thought process and the last thought one might ever have.
Interviewees: David Dickinson, Ross Beehler
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Interview with David Dickinson & Ross Beehler on developer community and conference conversations. This recording captures practical lessons and perspective for software teams and technical communities.
Interviewee: Dean Wampler
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Dean Wampler is a technology surfer, always riding the lip of the curve. Dean is a frequent speaker on AOP, Functional Programming with Scala, and Big Data as well as a user-group founder and author. Most recently he’s started the Chicago-Area Scala Enthusiasts (CASE) group. If you’re interested in Scala you need to checkout “Programming Scala” by Dean Wampler & Alex Payne.
Interviewee: Giles Bowkett
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Interview with Giles Bowkett on developer community and conference conversations. This recording captures practical lessons and perspective for software teams and technical communities.
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Interviewee: Hadi Hariri
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Hadi is a developer evangelist with JetBrains and has observed and spoken with a lot of developers in the wild over the years. One of the things he’s observed is the stereotype of the anti-social geek isn’t too far from the truth for a large part of our profession. Hadi proposes that we need to encourage openness, communication, humility, and awareness of the global picture beyond our own jobs.
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Interviewee: James Edward Gray II
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Interview with James Edward Gray II on developer community and conference conversations. This recording captures practical lessons and perspective for software teams and technical communities.
Interviewee: Jen Myers
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Interview with Jen Myers on developer community and conference conversations. This recording captures practical lessons and perspective for software teams and technical communities.
Interviewee: Ken Auer
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Ken Auer is one of the pioneers of what we now call “Software Craftsmanship”. He was mentoring and practicing the techniques that were eventually described as XP long before these concepts were even getting acknowledged by Dr. Dobbs.
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Interviewee: Gary Bernhardt
Topic: conference speaking and presentation skills
Video description: Interview with Gary Bernhardt at Software Craftsmanship North America (SCNA) on talk design, software communication, community dynamics, and sustaining creative work in public.
Interviewee: Randy Ellis
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Randy Ellis was looking to start a community and discovered a global thriving community in Appsterdam. So he is helping to set up a presence for the Appsterdam community in Chicago. Randy describes the reason he was originally attracted to Appsterdam, what he’s planning for Appsterdam Chicago, and why being…
Interviewee: Rob Reynolds
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Rob Reynolds is a whirling dervish of F/OSS projects, epic sideburns and Chuck Norris references. He was the creator of the RoundhousE or UppercuT project and many other automation tools for the .NET platform before he worked on the original Nubular (Nu) project. Rob explains the origins of NuGet, how he got involved in creating F/OSS on .NET, and why he created Chocolatey.
Interviewee: Ryan Slobojan
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Ryan Slobojan was at GOTO Chicago interviewing speakers for InfoQ.com and I managed to turn the camera around on him to learn more about his interviews. One of the interesting differences was whether the host is on camera. He wants to enforce focus on the subject while allowing himself to be the one-man band managing the tech side of the interviews. UGtastic interviews, for better or worse, are intentionally with the host on camera in an attempt to give the sense of three people in the room chat
Interviewee: Mandi Walls
Topic: developer community and conference conversations
Video description: Mandi Walls works for Opscode and is a frequent speaker on DevOps and the Chef tools. She also helps out with planning for the annual ChefConf conference.
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Interviewee: Stuart Halloway
Topic: clojure and functional programming
Video description: Interview with Stuart Halloway at Software Craftsmanship North America 2013 on clojure and functional programming. Themes include Clojure, Ruby, Python.
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Interviewee: Sarah Gray
Topic: conference speaking and presentation skills
Video description: Interview with Sarah Gray at Software Craftsmanship North America 2013 on conference speaking and presentation skills. The conversation captures practical lessons shared at the event.
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Interviewee: Micah Martin
Topic: community building and user-group organizing
Video description: Interview with Micah Martin at Software Craftsmanship North America 2013 on community building and user-group organizing. Themes include software craftsmanship.
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Interviewee: Amitai Schlair
Topic: open source and project maintenance
Video description: Interview with Amitai Schlair at Software Craftsmanship North America 2013 on open source and project maintenance. Themes include Ruby, open source, software craftsmanship.
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Interviewees: Chet Hendrickson, Ron Jefferies
Topic: conference speaking and presentation skills
Video description: Interview with Chet Hendrickson & Ron Jefferies at Software Craftsmanship North America 2013 on conference speaking and presentation skills. Themes include Agile methods.
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Interviewee: Adewale Oshineye
Topic: community building and user-group organizing
Video description: Interview with Adewale Oshineye at Software Craftsmanship North America (SCNA) on developer advocacy, documenting and sharing learning, and finding the right communities where technical contribution adds value.
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Interviewee: Daniel X. O'Neil
Topic: web development and frontend practice
Video description: Governments are slowly becoming more technologically aware and accessible. An early leader in the Open Government movement, Daniel X. O’Neil explains how we got to where we are and how he plans on putting data into the hands of the people.
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Interviewee: Ashe Dryden
Topic: ruby and rails practice
Video description: Interview with Ashe Dryden on Ruby and Rails practice. Themes include Ruby.
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Interviewee: Mike Stringer
Topic: community building and user-group organizing
Video description: Interview with Mike Stringer on community building and user-group organizing. Themes include Ruby.
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Interviewee: Michael Eaton
Topic: conference speaking and presentation skills
Video description: Michael and I chat about building a technical event that is open enough for even non-techies to come out and have a good time. Kalamazoo X is a “soft-skills” conference targeted at developers. We discuss what types of speakers he looks for for Kalamazoo X and how he works with them to fit the framework of the conference. By keeping talks time down to a short 20 minutes the attention and energy level is better and can be kept up across multiple speakers. The duration helps avoid the drop in atten
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Interviewee: Sam Serpoosh
Topic: community building and user-group organizing
Video description: I bumped into Sam at SCNA 2012 and had a nice but short conversation about tech culture in Iran and what the tech community scene looks like. Iran is a country that is frequently focused on in US news for political reasons. Getting to talk with Sam was a great reminder that despite all the rhetoric by our governments; there are people who are interested in the same things as me and other programmers around the world.
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Interviewee: Aaron Holbrook
Topic: community building and user-group organizing
Video description: Interview with Aaron Holbrook about launching the McHenry County WordPress Meetup, growing local WordPress community participation, and practical guidance for beginners.
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Interviewee: Joel Clermont
Topic: community building and user-group organizing
Video description: Interview with Joel Clermont on community building and user-group organizing. Themes include Ruby.
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Interviewee: James Edward Grey III
Topic: ruby and rails practice
Video description: Interview with James Edward Grey III on Ruby and Rails practice. Themes include Ruby, Rails.
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Interviewee: Charles Oliver Nutter
Topic: ruby and rails practice
Video description: Interview with Charles Oliver Nutter on Ruby and Rails practice. Themes include Ruby, open source, Clojure.
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Interviewee: Arthur Kay
Topic: web development and frontend practice
Video description: Interview with Arthur Kay on web development and frontend practice. Themes include JavaScript, web development.
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Interviewee: Avdi Grimm
Topic: podcasting and community media
Video description: Interview with Avdi Grimm on podcasting and community media. Themes include open source, Ruby, technical media.
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Interviewee: Andrea Magnorsky
Topic: conference speaking and presentation skills
Video description: Interview with Andrea Magnorsky on conference speaking and presentation skills. Themes include technical media, .NET.
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Interviewee: Justin Searls
Topic: community building and user-group organizing
Video description: Interview with Justin Searls at Software Craftsmanship North America 2012 on community building and user-group organizing. Themes include Ruby, testing practice, JavaScript.
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Interviewee: Robert Martin
Topic: conference speaking and presentation skills
Video description: Interview with Robert Martin at Software Craftsmanship North America 2012 on conference speaking and presentation skills. The conversation captures practical lessons shared at the event.
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Interviewees: Sarah Allen, Desi McAdam
Topic: ruby and rails practice
Video description: Interview with Sarah Allen & Desi McAdam at Software Craftsmanship North America 2012 on Ruby and Rails practice. Themes include Rails, Ruby, open source.
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Interviewee: Zach Dennis
Topic: ruby and rails practice
Video description: Interview with Zach Dennis at Software Craftsmanship North America 2012 on Ruby and Rails practice. Themes include Rails, testing practice.
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Interviewee: Tim Murphy
Topic: community building and user-group organizing
Video description: Interview with Tim Murphy at Software Craftsmanship North America 2012 on community building and user-group organizing. The conversation captures practical lessons shared at the event.
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Interviewee: Brad Wilkening
Topic: conference speaking and presentation skills
Video description: Interview with Brad Wilkening at Software Craftsmanship North America 2012 on conference speaking and presentation skills. Themes include open source.
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Interviewee: Brian Marick
Topic: conference speaking and presentation skills
Video description: Interview with Brian Marick at Software Craftsmanship North America 2012 on conference speaking and presentation skills. Themes include Agile methods, testing practice.
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Interviewee: Carl Erickson
Topic: web development and frontend practice
Video description: Interview with Carl Erickson at Software Craftsmanship North America 2012 on web development and frontend practice. Themes include web development.
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Interviewee: Colin Jones
Topic: developer education and learning
Video description: Interview with Colin Jones at Software Craftsmanship North America 2012 on developer education and learning. Themes include Clojure, open source.
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Interviewee: Cory Foy
Topic: community building and user-group organizing
Video description: Interview with Cory Foy at Software Craftsmanship North America 2012 on community building and user-group organizing. Themes include Ruby, Rails, software craftsmanship.
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Interviewee: Culley Smith
Topic: community building and user-group organizing
Video description: Interview with Culley Smith at Software Craftsmanship North America 2012 on community building and user-group organizing. Themes include testing practice, Agile methods, Rails.
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Interviewee: Leon Gersing
Topic: conference speaking and presentation skills
Video description: Leon is just one of those guys who has a good time programming and wants you to know that it’s okay for you to have a good time too.
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Interviewee: Mark Simpson
Topic: community building and user-group organizing
Video description: Interview with Mark Simpson at Software Craftsmanship North America 2012 on community building and user-group organizing. Themes include testing practice, Ruby.
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Interviewee: Matt Polito
Topic: community building and user-group organizing
Video description: Interview with Matt Polito at Software Craftsmanship North America 2012 on community building and user-group organizing. Themes include Ruby.
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Interviewee: Mike Clement
Topic: community building and user-group organizing
Video description: Interview with Mike Clement at Software Craftsmanship North America 2012 on community building and user-group organizing. Themes include Ruby, software craftsmanship.
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Interviewee: Patrick Welsh
Topic: developer education and learning
Video description: Patrick Welsh shares the concept of network weaving and how the idea of connecting multiple social groups can have really amazing results.
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Interviewee: Mike Jansen
Topic: developer education and learning
Video description: Interview with Mike Jansen at Software Craftsmanship North America 2012 on developer education and learning. The conversation captures practical lessons shared at the event.
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Interviewee: Tim Ottinger
Topic: software craftsmanship and practice
Video description: Tim Ottinger chats about how he co-authored the Agile in a Flash set of flashcards.The Agile in a Flash cards were born from the idea that people are smarter than we think and can be taught the core concepts in a concentrated format. Distill the ideas into key axioms and let people go from there.
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Interviewee: Aaron Bedra
Topic: clojure and functional programming
Video description: Interview with Aaron Bedra on the Clojure Koans project, teaching approaches for learning Clojure, and his broader education work in the Clojure community.
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Interviewee: Igor Polevoy
Topic: ruby and rails practice
Video description: Interview with Igor Polevoy on Ruby and Rails practice. Themes include Ruby, Rails, web development.
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Interviewee: Melissa Castello
Topic: conference speaking and presentation skills
Video description: Melissa Castello is a trained, professional interviewer who’s worked interviewing people in the professional poker and horse racing circuits. She’s gotten a chance to travel all over and hone her interviewing skills in sometimes high-pressure situations.
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Interviewee: Andy Lester
Topic: open source and project maintenance
Video description: Interview with Andy Lester at ChicagoWebConf 2012 on open source and project maintenance. Themes include open source, testing practice, web development.
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Interviewee: Aaron Kalin
Topic: conference speaking and presentation skills
Video description: Interview with Aaron Kalin at Chicago Web Conf on moderating technical panels, balancing moderator and panelist roles, and techniques for guiding productive audience discussion.
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Interviewee: Joe Hirn
Topic: developer education and learning
Video description: Interview with Joe Hirn at ChicagoWebConf 2012 on developer education and learning. The conversation captures practical lessons shared at the event.
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Interviewee: Corey Haines
Topic: clojure and functional programming
Video description: Interview with Corey Haines on clojure and functional programming. Themes include Clojure, testing practice, Ruby.
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Interviewee: Paul Baker
Topic: developer education and learning
Video description: Paul Baker co-organizes the Open Government Chicago(-land) user group. He’s been an active organizer for government data projects and lead the Chicago Lobbyist project that was not only a beautiful site but brought a great deal of transparency to how money is allocated by lobbyist’s in Chicago.
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Interviewees: Sean Massa, Todd Larsen
Topic: web development and frontend practice
Video description: Interview with Sean Massa & Todd Larsen on web development and frontend practice. Themes include JavaScript, .NET, Ruby.
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Interviewee: Mike Busch
Topic: community building and user-group organizing
Video description: Interview with Mike Busch on community building and user-group organizing. Themes include Ruby.
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Interviewee: Angelique Martin
Topic: software craftsmanship and practice
Video description: Interview with Angelique Martin on software craftsmanship and practice. Themes include software craftsmanship, Agile methods, Extreme Programming.
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Interviewee: Brian Liles
Topic: conference speaking and presentation skills
Video description: Interview with Brian Liles at WindyCityRails 2012 on conference speaking and presentation skills. Themes include Rails, Ruby, testing practice.
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Interviewee: Benjamin Oakes
Topic: ruby and rails practice
Video description: Interview with Benjamin Oakes at WindyCityRails 2012 on Ruby and Rails practice. Themes include Ruby.
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Interviewees: Milan Dobrota, Jen Lindner
Topic: community building and user-group organizing
Video description: Interview with Milan Dobrota and Jen Lindner on Tribune Tech's community engagement, including hosting local meetups and connecting Tribune engineering with Chicago user groups.
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Interviewee: How to say "UGtastic".
Topic: developer community and career conversations
Video description: I needed a place holder for a video so might as well take it as a moment to properly pronounce "UGtastic" once and for all.
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Interviewee: Dustin Updyke
Topic: Pittsburgh SC
Video description: Interview with Dustin Updyke at Software Craftsmanship North America 2011 on pittsburgh sc. Themes include Ruby, software craftsmanship.
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Interviewee: Ray Hightower
Topic: ChicagoRuby
Video description: Interview with Ray Hightower at Software Craftsmanship North America 2011 on chicagoruby. Themes include Ruby, Rails.
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Interviewee: Michael Norton
Topic: Cleveland & Pittsburgh Community
Video description: Interview with Michael Norton at Software Craftsmanship North America 2011 on cleveland & pittsburgh community. Themes include Agile methods, Ruby.
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Interviewee: Max Lancaster
Topic: DC Alt.NET
Video description: Interview with Max Lancaster at Software Craftsmanship North America 2011 on dc alt.net. Themes include JavaScript, technical leadership, Rails.
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Interviewee: Drew Shefman
Topic: Houston Adobe User Group
Video description: Interview with Drew Shefman at Software Craftsmanship North America 2011 on houston adobe user group. The conversation captures practical lessons shared at the event.
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Interviewee: Sergio Pereira
Topic: Chicago Alt.NET
Video description: My first interview for Ugtastic is with Sergio Pereira who runs the Chicago Alt.NET group.
Chicago Alt.NET holds a special place in my heart as it's the first user-group I attended and the first user-group I ever spoke at. Sergio shares his feelings on providing a platform for developers who may not otherwise have an opportunity to get up and share their experience and passions via Chicago Alt.NET.
This was my first interview so comments and tips are welcome. Sergio is a great sport and I really appreciate him taking the time to sit down and chat about Chicago Alt.NET.