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The Ideal Programmer - Why They Don't Exist and How to Manage Without Them?
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Summary
Mike Williams outlines some of the main characteristics that make developers and teams perform better than the average.
Bio
Mike Williams moved to Sweden in 1970 and joined Ericsson as a hardware designer. He and Bjarne Däcker founded the Ericsson Computer Science Laboratory 1980 where Erlang was invented. Mike's role was to develop the first Erlang virtual machine (Joe developed the compiler and machine architecture). In 1990 Mike glided into management by a complete accident, and found he rather liked it.
About the conference
These conferences are explosions of enthusiasm. They have become the meeting place for people who want to build large scale systems that never stop.
Oct 24, 2012
Community comments
Thanks for the talk!
by Augusto Rodriguez,
Great
by Keir Jakich,
Thanks for the talk!
by Augusto Rodriguez,
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I really, really enjoyed the talk. 100% aligned with the idea of "maximise for (fun|learning)".
Great
by Keir Jakich,
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Very nice. Interesting talk, and very helpful for me to put things in perspective as I grow my development team in London.
Thanks heaps!