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EPISODE · Oct 20, 2010 · 50 MIN

1.0.6 Abstraction

from This Developer's Life · host Rob Conery and Scott Hanselman

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 understand? How many geek trading cards should you have in your collection? To find out more, we talked to 3 prominent, living-history developers. Ward Cunningham - creator of the Wiki and major figure in Agile/XP programming Charles Petzold - author of many books about Windows and prominent speaker Dan Bricklin - 'Superman' according to Scott. Creator of the spreadsheet and all around amazing guy. Most of the music in this podcast is released under Creative Commons, including: DJ Cary - Sonic Chiil Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts John Williams - Dusty Porch In addition - super short clips of the following songs were used under Fair Use: Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator Laurie Anderson - O Superman

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