Interviews With Professional Programmers, Part Six

Hilary Mason of bit.ly talks about her work and how she got started with computers.

Interviews With Game Developers

Interviews about game development with Bay Area Video Game Development Meetup members at the January 19, 2010 meetup.

• Casey Holtz, group leader
• Turi Scandurra, www.salvatorescandurra.com
• Greg Damiano, Playdom
• Simon Amarasingham, dSonic
• Japheth Dillman, iJanda.net

Interviews With Professional Programmers, Part Four

More programmer interviews: Kevin Nilson, E*TRADE (at Google for a Silicon Valley Web JUG meeting), Jorge Ortiz, LinkedIn, Michael Galpin, eBay (at LinkedIn for a Bay Area Scala Enthusiasts meeting).

SuperHappyDevHouse 34 Interviews, Part Two

Interviews with programmers and hardware hackers from SuperHappyDevHouse 34, part 2 of 2.

Kevin Gadd talks about his dad bringing home computers for him to play with, and learning to program them, and his career making videogames. Drew Perttula’s dad brought home computers but no games, so Drew had to write his own. He got interested in visual effects and computer graphics. He works at DreamWorks Animation. Mike Lundy works for Nasa in Mountain View. He started programming around age 10 on a PCjr running BASIC. He works in the Intelligent Robotics Group at NASA. He hopes the software he works on will eventually run on the Moon or Mars.