Reblog

Go Scott Go!

This is a perfect example of cross-language person, someone who lives “on the other side” but it’s a pleasure to listen to and reading about. It happened already several times that in his podcast he interviews all sort of people, not necessarily M$ connected.

I’m impressed by how different the same interview can be when on the interviewer side of the microphone there is someone smart and prepared. Give it a try: here’s Tom and Mary Poppendieck interviewed by Scott Hanselman in his weekly podcast and this is Bob Payne’s AgileToolkit version. Scott questions are way more interesting forcing the interviewee to be careful in their replies. Not counting that most of the time I don’t care about interviewers talking about their own experience instead of making the interview. The overall effect for you as a listener is to get more involved and learn much more.

I eneded up hoping that Scott can interview everybody else in his podcast. Other episodes that I suggest you to listen and I really enjoyed are:

• Distributed Source Control with Git
  
• Be a Better Developer in Six Months
  
• Scott talks to Martin Fowler and David Heinemeier Hansson
  

There is of course much more here.