Resident Experts on Stirfry

[Walter Yu]

Hey Folks,

Putting this one out there as usual, but could we do a quick check-in with everyone here on what their area of expertise is so we can ping the list with any questions? 

I started thinking about this as I'm developing apps for Android and realize I'll need to market them, which is where resident experts like Dave and Sean come in.

That being said, yes I'm shooting to be the resident Android expert, which will include competency with Eclipse, Android SDK, Java, XML and GIT (command line rocks!). 

Details to follow... 

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[Ben Henry]

Walter - it's on. I get paid to research Android for the next two
weeks :). Want to have a pow-wow to share some knowledge during or
after?

relative/resident expert (questionable on wine and c++):
beekeeping
sausage making
beer brewing
C++/C#
Actionscript 2 and 3
Criterion Collection
Sonoma and French wines?

-Ben

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[David Doolin]

I'm curious how deep your c++ is there, Ben. =)

You've been a lot more of it recently...
I have a reservoir of knowledge, of
unknown depth!

Don't even *think* about it with c.

We should compare notes.

BTW, the hard thing about all this
web2 application programming is you
need a lot of tools to test effectively,
and that they're scripted instead of
compiled.

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[Sean Neprud]

My expert knowledge:

Woodblock printmaking
Oil Painting
HVAC
Plumbing
Fire Protection
CSS (questionable)
Wordpress theme development (questionable)
Bass Guitar
Comic books
Star Wars

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Walter Yu <kha...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Ben Henry]

I did all of the UI work for this:
http://www.theflip.com/en-us/Products/flipshareTV.aspx#/seeitall

I used Boost, DirectFB and C++ compiled for MIPS. We didn't have a
reliable gdb or gdbserver, so printf was our only debugging tool.
Debugging multi-threaded apps with printf alone makes you design
better.

I agree about the Web2 stuff. I've been dealing a lot lately with
.NET and wondering why it's so easy to read, but so hard to
write...because it takes great searching skills to find the function
they already wrote for you that slows down your app by 2% per call.
Testing is not what it used to be, but automated tests make things a
lot easier. Especially for massive online or Facebook apps.

-Ben

[David Doolin]

I'm having a really hard time automating tests
in this space. I think most people are, which is
why there is so little test code, and why (if I get
this right), RoR is going to blow the doors off
LAMP at some point. RoR test harness is built in.

(For the casual reader, a good, well-integrated
test harness compensates for lack of documentation,
and has the side benefit of ensuring your API is
usable. These are reasons alone to write test
code, never mind the actual tests.)

I could segue into a rant. I'll pass. For now.

[Ben Henry]

David,

There's also nothing like forcing developers into your management
paradigm. By this, I mean Agile.

-Ben

[David Doolin]

Agile -> testing?

[Ben Henry]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development#Agile_practices
-> Test-driven Development.

-B

[Walter Yu]

thanks all for replying, now i know where to go with questions as they crop up.

here are my areas of expertise:

asphalt

concrete

land surveying

primavera project planner

microstation (questionable, not using everyday)

android (questionable)

martial arts

snowboarding

surfing (questionable)

yoga (questionable)

-w

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