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Coders at Work: Brad Fitzpatrick

When I read the introduction to the chapter on Brad Fitzpatrick, I was slightly worried. He’s the guy who invented LiveJournal, which has been ridiculed (for good reason) ever since I’ve been using the internet. I knew some people in college who had LiveJournal accounts, and they were the kind of people who were always [...]

November 3, 2009   Posted in: coders at work, reviews  No Comments

Coders at Work: Jamie Zawinski

I’m reading through Coders at Work, which is basically a bunch of interviews with famous programmers. I just read the first chapter, which is an interview with Jamie Zawinski, who was part of the first team of developers at Netscape (he worked on the Unix part) and also is/was a developer/evangelist of the chlamydia of [...]

October 31, 2009   Posted in: coders at work, reviews  No Comments