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Steve Ballmer\’s legacy at Microsoft is controversial. We look over the long list of big and quiet successes and failures under his watch as CEO. Plus what we think the big problem facing Microsoft is going to be long term, and if they can really transform into a “devices and services” company.

Plus we’ll discuss the big problem with SourceForge, self taught programing vs structured schooling, your emails, and more!

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• A few comments on this week\’s show

• Which the best way to learn to program

Dev Hoopla

• How far the once might Sourceforge has fallne

Balmer is going going gone :

• Ballmer Departure From Microsoft Was More Sudden Than Portrayed

Instead, sources said Ballmer\’s timeline had been moved up drastically — first by him and then the nine-member board, including his longtime partner and Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates — after all agreed that it was best if he left sooner than later.

• Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to Retire within 12 Months

\”There is never a perfect time for this type of transition, but now is the right time,\” Ballmer, 57, said in a statement. \”We have embarked on a new strategy with a new organization and we have an amazing senior leadership team. My original thoughts on timing would have had my retirement happen in the middle of our company\’s transformation to a devices and services company. We need a CEO who will be here longer term for this new direction.\”

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As Yoda would say — “Always in motion the future is”. Change is a fact of life and a fact of software development. It’s great to be the one driving change, but what happens when change seems to be driving you?

This week’s all about gritting your teeth and hanging on.

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• Cole is doing some Django but is wondering if ROR generates enough HTML/JS that he would not have to fiddle with it if he used ROR.
• Chris writes in to share some QT deployment wisdom and to share his current OSS project: personal audio server
• Macarthur writes us a letter in C/C++ and took extra care to have it compile on compilers and machines. Also,has some interesting ideas on OO.
• Macarthur (maybe same dude?) writes in to tell us that he has great success with Clang+LLVM for debugging but releases uses GCC.
• Forlian writes in to share his success with Pomodoro and shares an extension for GNOME
• Daniel asks about design patterns and needs a jumping off place for research.
• Nick is using D with QT but is having a hard time configuring QTD. Also, some clarifications on Mike C++ and Java.
• Jason’s Email — Jason has a tough choice to make. Oh and he made me build his email with Ant — Java fans REJOICE!
• Ewoud writes in to remind us that there a lot of embedded developers out there working in C and to offer Bill (our aspiring Linux dev) some encouragement. Oh Also, he has robotics experience, so when the robots take over — blame him.

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Castles on Sand

• Platforms and frameworks are great… until they move your cheese.
• Case Study: Phil Phish’s Fez and XNA.
• Here today gone tomorrow — what do you mean it’s not supported???

Orders from on High

• Management can be… interesting in some of their technical decisions. What happens when your specialty becomes legacy.
• About those distribution platforms.

Tool of the Week

• OmniPlan

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Many of us have at some point dreamed of uploading an app or launching a web-service and becoming fabulously wealthy. For the most part we are all sadly mistaken.

This episode is all about dashing dreams and facing the biting wind of reality.

And your feedback!

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• Emmet rights in again, sharing a solution to his issue.
• Charles schools me a bit on the nitty gritty differences between LLVM and GCC. He also points out that C was at one point called “Portable Assembler”, so HAH!
• Nicholas sends me a message in C!
• James asks if I am using the Intel River Trail API at all and asks if we have a CR subreddit.
• Atcl shares a great resource and some thoughts on the value of knowing assembler
• Brandon would like some information on services like oDesk, eLance, and vWorker as a source for work.
• Thomas and a number of others have joined me in trying Pomodoro coding and overall they seem to like it.

Technical Dependencies

• What’s a dependency?
• Dependencies you must take.
• The risk of taking too many dependencies
• Avoiding Dependencies
• This sounds an awful lot like “Not Invented Here Syndrome”

Distribution Dependencies: What Is a Store When It Wants to Be More?

• GOLD RUSH!
• Do App Stores show preference to “certain” developers?
• Distribution limited API’s?
• Those rankings are legit… right?
• Those reviews are real… right?
• App Stores put small and large developers on a level playing field… maybe… no?
• These problems are coming to an OS near you.

Human Dependencies or the Rockstar Syndrome

• About that bus….
• Fire any and all “Rockstars”

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• Do you use Unity

Mike’s Plug

• Code Journal

Tool of the Week

• Sublime Text 2

Book of the Week

• Turing’s Cathedral

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Michael and Chris introduce our new weekly software development podcast. We start with a look at ways beginners can get started with development.

Plus we chat about the issues new developers face entering a market dominated by App stores.

Then – How platform vendors are feeling the need to reclaim greater control from developers.

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What is Coder Radio?

• Background info (premise, etc)

Gateways to Programming

• First Programming Language / Platform
• Is there a best programming language / Platform?
• Tools you may already have and not know about
• Tools for learning programming
• QBasic
• Visual Programming Tools
• Google-Blockly
• Illumination Software Creator

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Because We were Stupid and We were Lazy

• Security implications of bad programming
• Hardware implications of bad programming
• OS stability implications of bad programming
• Mac OS X Gatekeeper
• Windows 8 App Store
• Ubuntu Software Center

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Tool of the Week

• Koding

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