Monthly Archives: May 2009

on APIs: more craft, less magic

I’ve spent a lot of years creating developer tools. Even for the software that did not target developers, there were always APIs for other vendors to create extensions or to use internally between different modules.  One the interview questions I like is “have you ever designed an API?” followed by “what do you (would you) [...]

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the power of an open source community

It has been two weeks since I posted about the pr0n talk and at times I felt pretty tired of all the bickering; however, the quiet positive voices continued saying “stay positive,” “stand up and be counted” and “how about a community where women are valued for their ability to program and not [...]

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