Joel Spolsky (of http://www.joelonsoftware.com/) and Jeff Atwood (of http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/) selected my audio question on their new podcast, episode #6.

Stackoverflow is a new property created by a joint venture between these two blogging juggernauts.

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/

So far, their podcast is interesting like Paris Hilton. She’s famous for just being herself. Nevertheless, I am now famous.

I really do look forward to each new episode. Its a nice change of pace from the others that decorate my new iPhone. It's a little like a Seinfeld episode too, its a show about nothing, but in that span of 30 minutes, something interesting always happens. I love the history that Joel sprinkles in and the minutia that intrigues Jeff so much.

My question picked a little bit on Jeff, but hopefully the core of it came through. It was essentially a version of the eternal buy vs. build issue, or in this case "use what's in the box" vs. "build your own" scenario. Jeff had a respectable answer that centered on what he felt was important and what he was happy to inherit from the .Net Framework.

These are the types of debates I have every day building software. Its fun to ping someone outside your normal group every now and again and see what they have to say about it.