Topic: Interviews

Extreme Programming (XP) founder Kent Beck likes to say he made up XP's fundamentals during a particularly troubled project in 1996. While strictly true, from talking to him you sense he'd really been formulating the process for quite some time. Find out what Kent thinks about the contribution of the Java platform to software development's success (or lack thereof) in this exclusive developerWorks interview .

May 22 marks the official release of Sony's PS2 Linux kit in North America and Europe, while Japanese users have been tinkering with their kits for about a year (in beta release; the official release for Japan was last month). To give you something to do while waiting for your package to arrive in the mail, Codingstyle has interviewed several people in the PS2 development community, including two people from Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc. (SCEA) and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Ltd. (SCEE). For more, please read on.

The GNOME project is a free-software project resulting in a complete free and easy-to-use desktop environment for the user, as well as a powerful application framework for the software developer. One of the many talents behind this project, Daniel Veillard, is highlighted in this developer interview.

As seen in this Slashdot story, there is an interesting interview with Kent Beck and Alan Cooper, comparing two design philosophies: Extreme Programming (founded by Beck) vs. Interaction Design (with Cooper as proponent).

According to the official web site, wxWindows is a free framework ``to make cross-platform programming child's play. Well, almost''.

Early 2002 marks wxWindows 10th birthday, and to mark this occasion, Codingstyle has interviewed several of the project's key developers, who discussed in great detail a wide variety of topics, including what wxWindows is, where it is going; project management, cross-platform issues, and much more. For more, read on.

MSDN has an interesting interview with Miguel de Icaza, founder of GNOME and Ximian. Miguel discusses CORBA, Bonobo, as well as Microsoft's ECMA standards and Mono, Ximians implementation of Microsoft's .NET initiative.

As seen on Slashdot.org, SoftwareMarketSolution has an interesting interview with Joel Spolsky of Fog Creek Software. Joel is a former program manager with Microsoft, and provides some insight into reasons large software projects can fail. Also check out the resulting Slashdot story user followup discussion.

As seen in this Slashdot story, the O'Reilly Network has this interview with Yukihiro Matsumoto, creator of the Ruby programming language. Ruby is a pure object-oriented scripting language developed in Japan, sharing ideas and features from Perl, Python, and to a smaller extent, Smalltalk.