New Blog – My Friend The Developer
As you probably know, I’m full of crazy ideas – plenty of which never see the light of day.
Well, I’ve had “this little project”:http://myfriendthedeveloper.typepad.com bubbling along in the back of my brain for a while – and finally got time to do something about it last week.
(Tidbit – the initial idea sketch was written on the back of two boarding passes while flying to London. Amazing what your brain comes up with inside the darkened fuselage of a trans planetary plane flight)
I have a lot of great developer friends across the planet. I want to get to know them better, to understand _why_ they’re great developers. Simply put, a personal interviews site seemed like a nice way to do it while sharing that insight with the community at large.
I’ve always liked developer interviews, especially those with _real_ developers – not superstars who spend more time in PowerPoint than IDEA. This is my little contrbution to that area.
The end result? “My Friend The Developer”:http://myfriendthedeveloper.typepad.com
Victor agreed to be my “first interviewee”:http://myfriendthedeveloper.typepad.com/interviews/2005/02/victor_salaman.html and I’d like to thank him for that.
What do you think? Crazy idea? Interesting? Would you read it? Did you get something from it?
To my other friends, beware 
PS I have another motivation behind this site. Lately I’ve been getting more interested in fierce conversations and interviewing in general. As such, this is an excuse to improve _my_ interview techniques and ability to ask probing, interesting questions. Any feedback is most welcome – I don’t claim to be any sort of expert, yet.
