![]() But I more or less passed on all of them. My Dad is a programmer, and I had every advantage and opportunity to learn programming as a child and as a teenager. For me, it was a much more gradual onset. I stayed on as a tester but with my new degree and full-time availability, I pressed for the position I had come to respect so highly: Software Engineer.Ī lot of programmers seem to have been born with the ambition to develop software. When I graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 1995 I had already been working as a contract quality assurance tester at Apple, mostly over summers. So I would characterize it as fairly “one thing led to another,” after all. I started to explore the idea of a more direct-to-consumers indie software development house. It wasn’t until I happened upon a Craigslist ad describing, in a nutshell, me as the perfect candidate, that I considered the possibility of building a consulting business.After graduating with my Music degree, I ramped up the consulting work, but soon grew very weary of it. When I left Apple in 2002 I was dedicated to obtaining a second degree in Music, and expected to earn extra money working in a bookstore, or in a part-time office job at San Francisco State. DANIEL: I don’t think I would characterize my path as exactly streamlined.How did you decide you wanted to be a software engineer? You graduated from the University of California with a degree in Computer Science, basically go right to work for Apple and then launch your own software company. SHAWN: A lot of folks around the indie developer community seem to have landed there by “one thing led to another” syndrome, but you seem to have a more streamlined path.We talked about his previous job at Apple, the future of desktop weblog publishing, the importance of publishing a weblog and more. I am a big fan of MarsEdit, and therefore it was a great opportunity to interview Daniel via email. Daniel Jalkut is an indie Mac developer, and the man behind Red Sweater Software: “A member of a small yet powerful association of clothing-inspired software name consortium.” Red Sweater has become very well known for its popular Mac apps, such as MarsEdit, FastScripts and more.
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