Great Minds in Development

DevSource.com interviews with some of the leading minds in software and web development, usabilty, Internet and IT.

Episodes:

Episode 1: Designing Your Applications for Usability
Usability is a collaborative effort, often done by committee. How can developers maximize the effort to make their applications lovable, or at least easy to use? Guru Jakob Nielsen gives his advice on best practices for programmers.

Episode 2: Agility is Everything
Kim Jones from Price Waterhouse discusses the reasons that developers have to embrace all this "agility" stuff, and how it can make their lives easier.

Episode 3: Security Pitalls in SOA and Web Services
Security expert Andrew Nash discusses the evolutionary changes in Web services, the new security risks (including some you haven't thought about), and how the standards committees are addressing the issues with new specifications. But, he cautions, we're just at the beginning.

Episode 4: The Father of AJAX Gives Paternal Advice
Jesse James Garrett talks about AJAX, sure. However, the conversation ranges from the cultural differences between different development communities, to the importance of deeper UI elements in product design, to why the application design process is so complex.

Episode 5: A Constitution for Software Security
The code you write today will be part of tomorrow's security threats. Author Mark Burnett helps you set the fundamentals correctly.

Episode 6: Towards Sanity in Software Project Management
Jennifer Tharp discusses the role of project managers in agile development, why software projects are notoriously late, and how regulatory requirements place additional constraints on developers.

Episode 7: Coping with Info Overload
Alex Barnett, Community Program Manager in Microsoft's Data Programmability team, shares his expertise on Web 2.0, OPML, tagging, data programmability, and microformats.

Episode 8: Taking Advantage of ASP.NET 2.0
Rob Howard, founder of Telligent Systems, discusses ASP.NET's evolution and building faster and more secure apps.

Episode 9: Manipulating Society through Technology
Jeremy Bailenson, Director of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford, talks about virtual reality, and how real world behaviors influence on online reality.

Episode 10: Bringing People Into The Picture
Danah Boyd discusses social networks, developing Web sites for kids and teens, and cluster effects.

Episode 11: From Documents to Experiences
Prof. Ramesh Jain discusses image versus text search and defines experiential computing.

Episode 12: In Search of a Better Search
Marti Hearst discusses UIs and visualization for information retrieval, empirical computational linguistics, and the Flamenco Search Interface Project.

Episode 13: Bookmark This
Joshua Schachter, del.icio.us founder, talks about the Yahoo acquisition, design minimalism and functionality, and social bookmarking evolution.

Episode 14: Read Any Good Blogs Lately?
Tantek Celik, Technorati chief technologist, discusses the W3C, microformats, and developer wikis.

Episode 15: A Snapshot of Entrepreneurship
Munjal Shah tackles Riya's revolutionary technology in its photo search engine, and entrepreneurship challenges.

Episode 16: Steve Krug
Steve Krug talks about several usability topics that can help software developers and web designers improve the quality of their applications and web sites.

Episode 17: Lou Rosenfeld on the Content Arms Race
Lou Rosenfeld describes what this "synthetic field" is all about.

Episode 18: The Fuzzy Front-End of Development
George Olsen talks about the role of usability, information access, and aesthetics in software development.