oh, its a podcast! I couldn't tell at first. The front page is just images and captions, with no immediately visible info on what I am looking at. As the top center image is shoes, I thought it was some weird storefront... at least until I moused over something.
They might want at least a one-liner saying what that page is. There is such a thing as a design that is TOO minimal.
There is a one sentence describing what the site is all about "A podcast about developers and their lives." and it is at the top, but the color of the font is too light.
I LOVE this podcast. I think Rob and Scott do a great job of discussing areas of developers lives that are not generally talked about in a podcast. We don't always want to geek out and talk bits and bytes. TDL is a nice mix with some snappy musical interludes. Not to mention, they bring in some pretty big names in our industry.
This is pretty good. I've never seen the appeal of podcasts before but I'm enjoying http://thisdeveloperslife.com/post/1-0-9-management right now. I'm probably going to listen to the rest of them if this holds up.
As a fan of This American Life (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/) I love this podcast, I've been listening to it for a while already I recommend "Audacity" and "Homerun".
Arg! Sites that don't have an explanation of what they are anywhere drive me nuts. It's especially infuriating that it seems to be a collection of things that should be useful to developers, suggesting that they have good advice even though they can't manage the very basics on their own site, like stating somewhere what the site is about.
Not bad, but the sound quality lacks somewhat. Sometimes voices are saturated, sometimes there's a phaser effect (re-encoding problem?)... As a non native english speaker, these little things make the podcast quite harder to follow through, particularly in the noisy environment of a car.
This is a fantastic podcast, I only wish they would put out episodes more frequently. I know that it's based on the format/style of This American Life, but honestly I think it's actually better.
I tried this podcast once - found it embarassingly pretentious, with terrible musical interludes set too high in the mix. Conery's speaking style really rubbed me up the wrong way. But I'll maybe give it another go. Maybe he's got it under control since then.
If the alternative is "rubbing you the right way"... I'll pass :). If you had the time to be a bit more concrete with your thoughts - it would probably help. I'm not an audio engineer, I'm a developer like you.
Don't worry, I'm not going to get all Christina Aguilera on your ass. Anyway, I do admire your ambition at attempting something a little different from the 'guys chatting' norm.
They might want at least a one-liner saying what that page is. There is such a thing as a design that is TOO minimal.