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Podcast: airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien
Episode: The Competitive Developer
Description: An airhacks.fm conversation with Thomas Wuerthinger (@thomaswue) about:
JavaScript on Pentium 3,
snake with turbo pascal, sister as inspiration,
the "view source" JavaScript approach,
creating a platform "4b" site like FaceBook or studiVZ as first serious application with PHP on the backend and JavaScript on the frontend,
using flat files as database,
building GameScript with a subset of JavaScript to help colleagues to start programming,
creating the first, interpreted, programming language,
writing parsers by hand,
the natural way to ASTs,
creating software for smart homes,
first commercial project with 16 - a visual programming language,
great QT, how to skip a...