Giving technology to the world – a talk about writing good code examples

One of the things I love about my company is that you are perfectly allowed in Yahoo to give “Fire and Brimstone” talks to rally your colleagues. It is a very open company and if you can back up criticism with proof and offer solutions people are happy to listen to you.

Last Thursday I took the opportunity of being in the Silicon Valley to give a talk about giving technology to the world, pointing out mistakes we made in explaining our services and APIs, what works well and how some competitors do a great job at explaining complex technology in an easy to understand fashion.

It was a great opportunity to explain the concepts of developer evangelism to an internal audience who hadn’t yet read anything about the matter of seeing developers as an audience.

Check the slides on SlideShare and the audio on archive.org:

Listen to the “Audio of the talk on archive.org”:http://www.archive.org/details/GivingTechnologyToTheWorld:

• “Giving Technology to the World – MP3 46MB”:http://www.archive.org/download/GivingTechnologyToTheWorld/GivingTechToTheWorld.mp3
• “Giving Technology to the World – OGG 37MB”:http://www.archive.org/download/GivingTechnologyToTheWorld/GivingTechToTheWorld.ogg

Do you know any great API sandboxes and documentation? I’d be happy to have more positive examples!

Tags: advocacy, api, architecture, codeexamples, design, developeevangelism, evangelism

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