Archive for the ‘Interviews’ Category
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Podcast #22: Rob Dempsey of LifeOfTheFreelancer.com (Part 1 of 2)
Back in action after the holiday lull, and starting off the year right with part one of a mutual interview between Rob Dempsey and I. Rob runs LifeOfTheFreelancer.com, where he has interviewed over a hundred freelancers in order to find out what makes for a successful freelancing career. As someone who has worked with distributed software teams as well as spoken to numerous remote workers, Rob has some great insights into how to make dispersed teams work
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Wide Teams Podcast #21: Interview with Tony Amoyal
Can you work remotely from a snowboarding vacation in Montana? Software developer Tony Amoyal says "why not?". In this episode, he and I discuss the tradeoffs involved in being part of a software team while staying mobile
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Wide Teams Podcast #20: Interview with Thomaz Leite
In this episode, a discussion with software developer Thomaz Leite, who lives in Missouri and collaborate with team members in Michigan, Portugal, and Brazli. He introduced me to an new Open Source VoiP tool that competes with Skype, and talked about doing pair programming with remote team members
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Wide Teams Podcast Episode 19: Interview with Steven Willmott
In this episode of the Wide Teams podcast, I interview Steven Willmott of 3Scale. We talk about supporting clients in multiple timezones, what you do when one of your developers who lives on a mountainside and generates his own power gets hit with a snowstorm, and much more!
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Wide Teams Podcast #18: Ruby DCamp 2010 Part 3
The third and final part of a series. This is a recording of a round-table discussion on distributed software teams held at the Ruby DCamp 2010 unconference in northern Virginia. Be sure too listen to Part 1 and Part 2 if you haven’t already. Show notes: The Ruby DCamp website Trevor Lalish-Menagh is @trevmex on Twitter and blogs at http://trevmex.com/ Nick Gauthier of SmartLogic Solutions is @ngauthier on Twitter Chris Strom is @eee_c on Twitter and blogs at http://japhr.blogspot.com/ Camille Bell doesn’t have a Twitter account that I could find, but perhaps she will correct me. Jim Gay of Saturn Flyer is @saturnflyer on Twitter Brian Glusman of ENJYN is @bglusman on Twitter Apologies to the other participants whose info I wasn’t able to hunt down – please comment or email me and I’ll update this post!
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Wide Teams Podcast #17: Ruby DCamp 2010 Part 2
Part 2 of a three-part series. This is a recording of a round-table discussion on distributed software teams held at the Ruby DCamp 2010 unconference in northern Virginia
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Wide Teams Podcast Episode 16: Ruby DCamp 2010 Part 1
This episode is part 1 in a three-part series capturing a roundtable discussion of dispersed team issues held at the Ruby DCamp 2010 unconference in northern Virginia
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Wide Teams Podcast Episode 15: Intridea
Intridea is one of the largest fully dispersed software companies that I’m aware of, and they are still growing fast. I’ve talked to them before – back in episode 9, I spoke with Michael Bleigh. When I visited the Ruby Hoedown in Nashville a few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to talk to a whole passel of Intrideans. We talked about why Intridea chose to build a distributed team, how they manage software teams that are spread across the world, and the tools they have used and built to facilitate communication
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Wide Teams Podcast Episode #14: Interview with Jim Weirich
In this episode I talk to Jim Weirich of EdgeCase. Jim is a prominent Ruby programmer and one of my programming heros. In this interview, he talks about using Skype and screensharing for remote pair programming, and the importance of having a video connection with remote coworkers
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Wide Teams Podcast Episode 13: Interviews with Jody Alkema and Peter van Hardenburg
Two final interviews from RailsConf 2010 this week. The first is with Jody Alkema, a web developer with Domain 7 who spoke to me about his experience augmenting his Agile software team with some remote help. The second is with Peter van Hardenburg, a developer at Heroku who is transitioning back to a collocated team after a couple years of working remotely
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