Let Joe Average Help You Code

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday February 28, 2006 @08:10AM from the that's-a-lot-of-monkeys-and-a-lot-of-typewriters dept.

ploose writes "Apache co-founder and CollabNet CTO Brian Behlendorf says that programming should be opened out to non-developers. Bring them into a development community with proper feedback forums and bad code will get flamed anyway, so it doesn't matter what they write. From the interview: 'Mashups are really Excel macros 2.0 - with the rise of Web services, the more vehicles that are out there that expose data through programmable APIs, with Office 12.0 and Firefox with AJAX, the more people you'll see create applications. The line between hardcore developers and the average Joe will start to get very fuzzy.'"

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I used to work with Brian Behlendorf by Anonymous Coward · 2006-02-28 08:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

He is a really funny and brilliant guy, but he had a really nasty habit of picking his nose and eating the booger at meetings. This really grossed people out. But then he beagan eating his own feces at meetings and that was really vile. Still a really great guy to work with!