(Anchor.fm link)

Michael Dominick, of the Mike Dominick Show, talks to me about patterns in software, the Pokemon API, what he looks for when hiring developers and how he's pretty sure the universe is POSIX compliant.

• The Mike Dominick Show, previously the Automator Podcast
• Mike’s Twitter
• Design Patterns (book)
• A Pattern Language (book on building architecture)
• The Art of Computer Programming, by Donald Knuth
• Observer pattern
• Singleton pattern
• Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns by Steve Yegge
• Gang of Four
• Zynga / Farmville
• On the U.S. Navy using XBox controllers for submarines
• FizzBuzz
• Pokemon API
• Curl (HTTP client)
• Rubyfmt
• Rebuilding Rails
• Programming Ruby - the Pickaxe Book
• Coder to Developer by Mike Gunderloy
• C++ Crash Course (book)
• Ruby Under a Microscope by Pat Shaughnessy
• Dave Thomas Code Katas
• MUDs
• Rob Conery’s “The Imposter’s Handbook”
• The Konami Code
• POSIX