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So what is a developer experience anyway?

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Discussion on all things related to the experience that a developer has with development tools and frameworks.

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98 from 8 Oct 2003 to 13 May 2015
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2015 1

  1. Visual Studio Code: Bringing UX and engineering together

2012 2

  1. Do you want a sneak peek at some ideas we're working on?
  2. Upcoming developer events in Edinburgh

2011 8

  1. Free Windows Azure bootcamp in Edinburgh
  2. Scott Hanselman demo's the preview tab and solution explorer at DevReach
  3. A Morning With Microsoft
  4. New features for the next release of Visual Studio
  5. New blog: It will never work in theory
  6. Edinburgh UX book club
  7. It's like trying to name your baby
  8. Money Dashboard and other amazing developers in Edinburgh

2010 21

  1. Climate change and developer personas
  2. Usability study in Edinburgh last week
  3. Innovation and design
  4. Interacting with templated controls in a Silverlight based Windows Phone 7 app
  5. Bricolage, tinkering and gender differences in programming
  6. Edinburgh Windows Azure Briefing
  7. Windows Phone 7 Developer Event
  8. Anyone interested in a Windows Phone 7 developer event in Edinburgh?
  9. How can you make a better measuring cup?
  10. Making effective use of personas in design
  11. A language for parallel programmability
  12. Do developers have culture?
  13. Most IDEs offer poor support for many common development tasks
  14. What are your hairiest bug war stories?
  15. How easy is it for us to say what we really want?
  16. Do we really need another book about making software?
  17. How do you evaluate API usability?
  18. What makes a platform compelling?
  19. Scottish developers, we need you!
  20. Are you experienced?
  21. Who cares about API usability?

2006 2

  1. Help us learn about how you work
  2. Waterfall conference

2005 16

  1. Using CDs to design a new programming language
  2. Studying design patterns
  3. Usability study video
  4. Maintaining state in an Indigo service
  5. HOWTO: Analyze the data collected in a usability study
  6. PPIG 2005 and blogging
  7. Factory design pattern and usability
  8. We're hiring
  9. API usability evaluation
  10. HOWTO: Run an API usability study
  11. HOWTO: Design a task list for an API usability study
  12. HOWTO: Design and run an API usability study
  13. API usability talk available on MSDN from tomorrow
  14. Feedback on Avalon CTP?
  15. Ideas for talks at upcoming conferences?
  16. Avalon November CTP is available for download

2004 32

  1. Attributes and API usability (again!)
  2. Parameter naming and the Google test
  3. System.Net usability study
  4. Whyline
  5. Virtual properties anyone?
  6. VS automation samples
  7. This scares me!
  8. Readability vs Writability
  9. Using the cognitive dimensions
  10. Using the cognitive dimensions - domain correspondence
  11. Attributes and API usability revisited
  12. Can I see your code?
  13. Windows mobile devices and API usability
  14. Attributes and API usability
  15. Carlos Perez on API usability
  16. Psychology of Programming Workshop
  17. Using the cognitive dimensions - Role Expressiveness
  18. Psychology of Programming Workshop
  19. Using the cognitive dimensions - consistency
  20. Using the cognitive dimensions - API viscosity
  21. PPIG newsletter
  22. ObjectSpaces and usability
  23. Joel Spolsky on programming language usability
  24. Using the cognitive dimensions - API Elaboration
  25. Usability and prototypes
  26. API Penetrability
  27. Using the Cognitive Dimensions - API Elaboration
  28. Using the Cognitive Dimensions - Penetrability
  29. Premature commitment in action
  30. OK/Cancel
  31. Why profile users and not tasks?
  32. Using the cognitive dimensions - premature commitment

2003 16

  1. I'm moving...
  2. Using the Cognitive Dimensions - Progressive Evaluation
  3. Using the Cognitive Dimensions - Work Step Unit
  4. Should collection based properties be read only?
  5. Using the cognitive dimensions - working framework
  6. System.Xml or System.XML?
  7. Sidebar API usability study
  8. Using the cognitive dimensions, continued - learning style
  9. More cognitive dimensions links
  10. Sign up for a usability study
  11. Using the cognitive dimensions framework to design usable APIs
  12. Experts and non experts
  13. Aesthetics, language design and usability
  14. Fixed links
  15. API usability is not just about the API itself
  16. API usability and the cognitive dimensions framework