A UK based Technology and Software Developer Podcast that helps you to improve your development knowledge and career, through explaining the latest and greatest in development technology and providing you with what you need to succeed as a developer.
Episode 99 - Vue Js
In this episode we talk to Brandon Lyons about Vue.js, another front end technology for Javascript. Where will it end!? do we really need another framework? anyway... Brandon is a Brandon fullstack web developer, with a passion on the frontend development, specifically Vue.js. He currently working at Mcity, an automated vehicle proving grounds located at the University of Michigan. Brandon first got into web development in high school by making basic html websites, and has been working for the University of Michigan doing web development for a little over a year now. The first time Brandon used Vue was while building an account and data management SPA for the University hospital. Since then, he has grown to appreciate Vue even more and has become fully emersed in its ecosystem. On a daily basis Brandon uses Vue.js and python to build a suite webapps for Mcity including an Account Manager, Project Tracking SPA, and my personal favorite, a frontend interface for Mcity’s traffic control api. Contacting Brandon Lyons LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyonsbp/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FudgeLyons Blog: https://medium.com/@brandonl.4231
Episode 98 - Purposeful Practice
In this episode I want to challenge what you think practice is, what you were told as a child that it was, I want to give you something that will make a whole lot of sense and change your practicing for the better.
Episode 97 - Rookout
In this episode we talk about Rookout, with Or Weis, a new way to track to bugs in your online applications. Or started with computers at the age of 5, and went on to be a developer, officer, and researcher at the IDF Intelligence's elite Unit 8200. After his military service he was product architect at Intigua, founder and CTO of Reactful, consultant for the Ministry of Defense, and a VP of R&D at Netline Communications Technologies: cyber division. Or created Rookout along with Liran Haimovitch to resolve the pain of understanding production code, a problem that his career has taught him too well. Contacting Or Weis LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/orweis/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/OrWeis Github: https://github.com/orweis Website: http://bitweis.com More about Rookout Website: http://rookout.com Blog: https://www.rookout.com/the-5-approaches-to-production-debugging/
Episode 96 - Get yourself out there
In this episode I wanted to talk about getting involved and getting yourself out there.
Episode 95 - The Bug Squasher
In this episode we talk about The Bug Squasher, a great new product for making your product better, with Kirk Deis Kirk has been featured on Forbes, radio shows and podcasts in the US. He is the CEO and Founder of two companies - Treehouse 51 a digital agency in Newport Beach, California and The Bug Squasher a universal web app to that helps you diagnosis site issues, the system we're here to talk about today. Contacting Kirk DeisLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirkdeis/ Contacting The Bug Squasher: Website: https://thebugsquasher.com/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UC7sKQtwj1Dp6b0HxxLzTRyw Instagram: https://instagram.com/thebugsquasher FaceBook: https://facebook.com/TheBugSquasher Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheBugSquasher Rap Video Link: https://youtu.be/k0QCU97Auvc Contacting Treehouse 51: Website: https://www.treehouse51.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFP9q36U91EaKiIs6Kn4Diw Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/treehouse51/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TreeHouse51inc/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Treehouse51Inc
Episode 94 - Losing your confidence
In this episode I wanted to talk about a topic which I think a lot of developers suffer with at some point in their career, especialy those who are always rivng to better than they were yesterday, and that is losing your confidence as a developer. I personally beleive it is tightly linked with Imposter syndrome and can be triggered in many ways, it can have an affect on your personal and your professional life a like.
Episode93 - JetBrains Rider
In this episode we talk with Matt Ellis about the cross platform IDE Rider from JetBrains. Matt is a developer slash developer advocate at JetBrains, he has spent over 20 years shipping software in various industries and currently works with IDEs and development tools, having fun with abstract syntax trees and source code analysis. He has worked on several open source projects, with a heavy leaning towards plugins for JetBrains tools, from something useful, like adding xunit.net test runner support to ReSharper, to something less useful, such as Clippy for ReSharper. Yes, really. His current favourite side project is the Unity support in Rider. Contacting Matt Ellis Twitter: https://twitter.com/citizenmatt Website: http://sticklebackplastic.com GitHub: https://github.com/citizenmatt Resharper Clippy: https://github.com/citizenmatt/resharper-clippy Other Links JetBrains Website: https://www.jetbrains.com Rider Website: https://www.jetbrains.com/rider
Episode 92 - Two years of the Cynical Developer
In this episode we talk about where the podcast has come from, where its going and your chance to win some free stuff! " />
Episode 91 - Humanitarian Toolbox
In this episode we talk to Richard Campbell about The Humanitarian Toolbox. https://cynicaldeveloper.com/podcast/91/ Richard wrote his first line of code in 1977 and still isn't over it. He's had a bunch of jobs in computing, built a few companies along the way and these days does a little consulting, makes the podcasts .NET Rocks and RunAs Radio, is one of the folks behind the Dev Intersection Conferences as well as being chief cheerleader for the charity Humanitarian Toolbox. Contacting Richard Campbell @ The Humanitarian Toolbox Humanitarian Toolbox: http://www.htbox.org/ GitHub: https://github.com/HTBox Twitter: https://twitter.com/htbox Blog: http://www.htbox.org/blog Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/htbox Other Links .Net Rocks Podcast: https://www.dotnetrocks.com/ Run As Radio: http://runasradio.com/
Episode 90 - Developer Promotion Prospects
In this episode I want to talk about career prospects for developers, This has been something of a hot topic of late with a few of my developer friends and I want to address what appears to be a common theme between them all. I'm going to make a few points I have made before in the show, but I will also pick on some new areas.
Episode 89 - Why Devs need a Productivity Coach
In this episode we talk with Jay Miller about productivity for developers. Jay dreamt of helping programmers to achieve their career and life goals, and through that dream and passion he created Productive Developers. As a United States Marine Veteran and IT Professional with over a decade of experience, Jay has trained hundreds Tech Professionals all over the world. https://cynicaldeveloper.com/podcast/89/ Contact Jay Miller Twitter: https://twitter.com/kjaymiller Website: https://kjaymiller.github.io/ MicroBlog: https://micro.blog/kjaymiller Jays Podcast: https://www.devotaku.com/
Episode 88 - Having an Opinion
In this episode I wanted to discuss having an opinion, what one is, and why you should keep it to yourself at times. As developers we are opinonated by nature, we are surrounded by them every day, even the technology we use is opinionated, but do you even know what an opinion is? most confuse opinion with fact. There are two kinds of opinions and we dicuss those today. https://cynicaldeveloper.com/podcast/88/
Episode 87 - Security in IoT
In this episode we speak to Stuart Mitchell about security in IoT. http://cynicaldeveloper.com/podcast/87/ Stuart Mitchell is the CEO of the IoT start-up mokanix, which is a Tata Communications business incubated in the company’s ‘Shape the Future’ programme. The inspiration for mokanix came from wondering why mobile operators didn’t allow access to some of their core control functionality via easy-to-use APIs. The venture has been established to see what us software developers could make given greater control and security on their mobile data connections. Stuart is an industry veteran and innovator. His career in wireless telecommunications spans over 20 years during which time he has worked in a variety of cutting-edge vendors: both large corporates and start-ups. His experience is as diverse as radio paging and internet security solutions and Stuart worked at the forefront of both VOIP and photo messaging: both of which we take for granted today. Stuart started his career as a broadcast engineer and still has a passion for playing and listening to music and podcasts. He is usually found in airport lounges or speaking to customers while walking his over-enthusiastic dog in the fields near where he lives. Contacting Stuart Mitchell: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartmitch Twitter: https://twitter.com/telcobites Contacting Mokanix: website: https://mokanix.io FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/mokanixAPI/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mokanix_api LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mokanix/ Light up trash can https://twitter.com/tarbard/status/1002464120447397888
Episode 86 - Talking to NonTechies
In this episode I wanted to talk to you about talking to non technical people. http://cynicaldeveloper.com/podcast/86/ For some reason us techies have some kind of mental ad blocker in our heads when it comes to talking to about technical stuff to non technical people. And I'll admit it can be hard to talk about such technical things in a way the average person can understand, I'm not going to say normal person as well what is normal? But anyway, checkout this weeks episode for some quick tips on how to talk to those nontechnical folks.
Episode 85 - Unity 3D
In this episode we talk about Games Development, using Unity3d with Jason Weimann http://cynicaldeveloper.com/podcast/85/ Jason Weimann is a games developer and writer who loves to teach others how to build their own games. He has spent his career working on all types of games, including multiple MMO's, PC, & mobile games. Jason has been a big Virtual Reality enthusiast since the Oculus Rift Kickstarter. This lover for VR drove him to create and release 6 VR games But Jason's real passion is found in teaching others game development. Now, he spends most of his time working on MMOs and running the site unity3d.college & his Youtube channel where he regularly writes and talks about Game development & VR. Contacting Jason Weimann Twitter: https://twitter.com/jweimann Unity3d Author: https://unity3d.college/author/jweimann/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIA7tV8G_v3jrGI47Uyo1jg Unity3d: https://unity3d.college/