Join us for a conversation with Joel Spolsky, founder and CEO of Stack Overflow, the #1 site for developers to ask and answer programming questions. During this chat, Joel will talk about his experiences scaling startups and what it takes to build a developer-centric culture in the workplace.
Joel is a globally recognized expert on software development and is known by developers around the world for his website Joel on Software. In 2000, he founded his first company, Fog Creek Software, which creates project management tools for software developers, including Trello, which recently spun out into its own company. This chat was moderated by Peter Marx, CTO City of Los Angeles.
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The biggest MYTH ever in programming is that the best programmers are young. I am glad he touch upon that subject. The amount of mistakes, spaghetti code, etc. that unexperienced programmers do is seriously unexposed. What happens is that older programmers try to escape programming by going on to being Project Managers, Business Analysts,etc.., not because they cannot program, or "lost it", in fact they are much much better, it is just that they are looking for more pay.
Very good talk, Most of the topic nicely covered. Thanks for making StackOverflow and making it open data.
Interview with a man that created the platform that got me though my initial years as a programmer, done by the man that made possible one of the most influential games of my life.
Casually throws that he was the CTO for blizzard when WoW was launching, did not expect that.
Thumbs-up for 'bombastic' and that his mom was an english lit professor and programmer! :)