Interview with Kier

[Shelley]

Excellent Interview to round off a brilliant trio of Interviews.

 

[Gravity]

I didn't realise these developers were well-known. I like the software though.
I found this place when researching WordPress to vBulletin importers, and came across Jeremy's work on that system, then found Floris' twitter account, and he'd mentioned xenforo, and I followed the link.

 

[Paul B]

Great interview as always Howard.
I will certainly make the time to read the ones made a few years ago.

Great to see I have something in common with the dev's too:

Both Mike and I use Eclipse PDT as our IDE

Now if only I can work out how to use it

 

[feldon30]

I just downloaded it. 140MB

 

[John]

Well done Kier and Howard...marvelous read

 

[dutchbb]

From the old interview:

The vBulletin community are for the most part a very friendly bunch and all the vBulletin staff receive a fair bit of adulation from the hard-core fans though it's always important to remember that the online world is very fickle and the moment that we stop providing superior support, excellent customer relations and an innovative product the market is ever-ready to move to someone who will.

Visionary

 

[Peggy]

Yep, that's the one.

 

[Paul B]

Yep, that's the one.

This one is also useful at times

 

[Peggy]

This one is also useful at times

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Haha I like that one too.

 

[The Sandman]

This one is also useful at times

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Call that a scolding where you come from?

 

[bambua]

Very good interview, nice read.

 

[Kim]

Call that a scolding where you come from?

I'm scared now

 

[Shadab]

This one is also useful at times
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And if that doesn't work...

 

[jmurrayhead]

That was an excellent interview. And I was able to pull from it a great quote that I plan to show all my project managers:

"I believe that the moment the developers are removed from the decision-making process for the direction of a software product, quality and productivity will suffer. There are few worse things for a software engineer than being forced to work on a feature or system that you know is ill-conceived and accumulates technical debt, which will inevitably come back to bite you in the end. If the managers responsible for the programmers fail to consult them - at the feature concept stage, not at the implementation stage, the product is doomed to an ignominious end when its momentum eventually stalls."

So true, Kier.

 

[Markos]

Simply the best interview about Xenforo. Very complete, good questions, very esplicative answers. Good.

 

[zaz! Interactive]

Good interview

 

[The Sandman]

That was an excellent interview. And I was able to pull from it a great quote that I plan to show all my project managers:

"I believe that the moment the developers are removed from the decision-making process for the direction of a software product, quality and productivity will suffer. There are few worse things for a software engineer than being forced to work on a feature or system that you know is ill-conceived and accumulates technical debt, which will inevitably come back to bite you in the end. If the managers responsible for the programmers fail to consult them - at the feature concept stage, not at the implementation stage, the product is doomed to an ignominious end when its momentum eventually stalls."

So true, Kier.

Do you think there are certain people who wish they had heeded Kier's words a couple of years ago?

 

[jmurrayhead]

Do you think there are certain people who wish they had heeded Kier's words a couple of years ago?

If they don't wish they had done so, then they don't belong doing what they are doing. This is assuming "certain people" is referring to management over at vBulletin.