Google Developer Conference Videos
26 June 2009 » In events
Tag: google developer conference, programmer, video
Google I/O Developer Conference 2009 on 27th-28th May at Moscone Center in San Francisco. No, I wasn’ there, anyway you can find a lot of material, videos and slides, of the sessions held from a lot of speakers at the event. From the whole list I’ve found two of them that I consider very interesting: “The Myth of the Genius Programmer” e “Do You Believe in the Users?“.
The Myth of the Genius Programmer
A pervasive elitism hovers in the background of collaborative software development: everyone secretly wants to be seen as a genius. In this talk, we discuss how to avoid this trap and gracefully exchange personal ego for personal growth and super-charged collaboration. We’ll also examine how software tools affect social behaviors, and how to successfully manage the growth of new ideas. I like the idea “be a small fish” that you can see at time 19:20. It’s really difficult to improve your skills when you’re the big fish, isn’t it?
Do You Believe in the Users?
Too many programmers have forgotten about the lost art of customer service. All software has users, though most developers have forgotten how to respect them, trust them, or “sell” their software to them in an exciting (but honest!) manner. This talk will focus on anecdotes and strategies for keeping software design uncomplicated, making software fast, and putting usability above programming convenience. We’ll also focus on the importance of keeping a healthy illusion of simplicity, while allowing abstractions to deliberately leak for power-users.
Finally
Resources like these are very interesting from my point of view. Be able to follow some kind of sessions could be fundamental when you can’t meet often your friends/colleagues to work with and discuss some problems at an high level. Do you agree?
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