Talking mobile development on Hanselminutes
Published 12/17/2011 11:15 AM by Toran Billups 2 Comments
When I started doing web development years ago I found podcasts were a great way to learn about different facets of software development. If I wasn’t exposed to different ideas I might never have thought to innovate on my own projects and keep learning. And if you are at all familiar with the .NET community one of the most respected podcasts in existence today is hanselminutes. This weekly podcast features Scott Hanselman doing what he does best - speaking with interesting people in the software community to get a different perspective on popular (and sometimes unpopular) topics in the software industry.
Recently I was fortunate enough to talk with Scott about my experience developing mobile applications across iPhone/Android/Windows Phone and thought to mention it on the blog. The actual interview covered my previous blog post about the mobile development report card but Scott did take it a bit further at times. The most entertaining part without a doubt was when Scott asked about memory management and I said to ignore it initially (I was then given the ’opportunity’ to dig myself out of that hole rather quickly).
But even with this misstep I think the show ended up a huge success! If you are interesting in the podcast give it a listen, and if you just want to read about it you can find a full transcript here.
Congrats for the great show :) Honestly, when I heard you talk about this "misstep" I had quite the opposite reaction. To me, what you said only sounded like: "if this or that point of writing software is getting in your way so that you might end up not writing software at all (or not at all with this language), then leave it aside as much as you can for now and come back to it later when you can give it a more important part of you brain-time".
Exactly -glad someone else noticed that I simply optimized for time to market initially. Since the launch I've improved memory management and it's been simple. Wishing all the "hype" around it was more positive and less (this language sucks) but you know the internet ...