Ardent Development Podcast
26 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 6 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDerek Hatchard and Ron Smith talk with practitioners and thought leaders in the software development industry in search of inspiration and insights that apply across disciplines including programming, testing, product management, project management, people management, user experience, and security.
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#013 – Test Automation Culture with Daniel Forkosh
March 06, 2018 16:05 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBEarly in Dan’s career, he saw the clear need for companies to solve technical and cultural challenges around automated testing. He made this challenge his focus. Dan has been in roles ranging from quality engineer, test automation lead, and director of quality engineering. His current role is at Salesforce as a principal engineer focusing on testing frameworks and enabling teams to build quality into the product. In this episode, Dan Forkosh shares about his journey transforming o...
#012 – Learning Compilers with Cartoons with Vaidehi Joshi
February 27, 2018 03:00 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBVaidehi Joshi started BaseCS to document her self-guided journey into computer science. It turned into a much-loved blog, podcast, and video series. Vaidehi is an engineer at Tilde, in Portland, Oregon, where she works on Skylight (a smart profiler for Ruby and Rails applications). She enjoys building and breaking code, but loves creating empathetic engineering teams a whole lot more. In her spare time, she runs basecs, a weekly writing series that explores the fundamentals of comp...
#011 – Jerk Programmer to Compassionate Coder with April Wensel
February 20, 2018 01:54 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBApril Wensel, founder of Compassionate Coding, is a veteran software engineer and technical leader whose varied career spans such fields as education, research, healthcare, and entertainment. She has also mentored and led workshops with diversity-focused organizations like Hackbright Academy and Black Girls Code. In this episode, April talks about her past as a jerk programmer, how she came to recognize that her behavior was problematic, and why she started Compassionate Coding to ...
#010 – Reimagining Your Product with Luke Ball
February 13, 2018 01:05 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBLuke Ball is a product leader at Salesforce. After studying computer science in school, Luke started his career in front-end coding and UX. He’s worked as a consultant, an independent contractor, employee #1 at a startup, and, for the last eight years, as a product and UX manager at Salesforce. At Salesforce, he was on the original Chatter team and has worked in various capacities on Search, Einstein, and Mobile. For the last four and a half years, he worked on Social Studio, Salesf...
#009 – Small Town to Tech Giant with Gerry O’Brien
February 06, 2018 15:13 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBGerry O’Brien is a Senior Content Development Manager at Microsoft Learning with a focus on software development and database platforms. He has over 18 years of industry experience in various roles including software development, consulting, and training. Gerry holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Mobile Development degree and has experience with C#, C++, Visual Basic, Java, Objective-C, Swift, iOS Development, Android Development, and more. In this episode, Derek...
#008 – Fingerprints Are Forever: Biometric Factors for Authentication with Adam Englander
January 30, 2018 18:55 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBAdam Englander is a software architect with a passion for developing secure and maintainable software. He is the founder of PHP Vegas and truly loves supporting the local and global developer communities. In this episode, Derek and Ron chat with Adam Englander about the basics of using things like fingerprints and facial recognition as authentication factors. Adam shares some of the potential risks and how to best think about using biometrics as part of a multi-factor authenticatio...
#007 – Augmenting the Agile Team: A Testing Success Story with Mike Hrycyk
January 23, 2018 15:09 - 28 minutes - 12.9 MBMike Hrycyk has been trapped in the world of quality since he first did user acceptance testing 19 years ago. He believes in creating a culture of quality throughout software production and tries hard to create teams that hold this ideal and advocate it to the rest of their workmates. He has worked many roles, but always returning to testing. Mike is currently the Director of Quality for PQA Testing. In this episode, Derek and Ron chat with Mike Hrycyk about his experience using a ...
#006 – Developer Evangelism and Lessons from Musical Theatre with Chloe Condon
January 16, 2018 02:25 - 24 minutes - 11.4 MBChloe Condon, a former musical theatre actress and Hackbright Academy graduate, is a Developer Evangelist at Sentry. Perhaps the only engineer you’ll meet who has been in “Hairspray”, “Xanadu”, and “Jerry Springer: the Opera,” she is passionate about bringing people with non-traditional backgrounds into the world of tech. If you’re trying to place her face, yes, she’s the young woman giving the awkward thumbs up in the “What It’s Like to be a Woman at a Tech Conference” article (whi...
#005 – Programmer Nostalgia with Kevin Grossnicklaus
January 09, 2018 01:00 - 21 minutes - 10 MBKevin Grossnicklaus is an old school developer who lives in St. Louis, MO and runs a great team of 7 developers at his company ArchitectNow. At ArchitectNow, he and his team build apps targeting a variety of platforms ranging from web to desktop to mobile. When not building apps for customers, Kevin can be found traveling, chicken pickin’ on his Telecaster, or tracking his expanding amount of grey hair thanks to his three teenage daughters. He’s also still holding out for a second s...
#004 – Meet the Host with Derek Hatchard
January 02, 2018 01:33 - 14 minutes - 6.83 MBDerek Hatchard is an independent writer and software creator, although he took a seven-year hiatus from self-employment to work at Salesforce where he was a developer, software architect, people manager, and product owner. He is a husband and father based in New Brunswick, Canada. Where to Find Derek Hatchard @derekhat on Twitter @derekhat on Medium On the web at derekhat.com Enjoy the show and be sure to follow Ardent Development on Twitter. Follow @ardentdev Transcript Ron...
#003 – Meet the Host with Ron Smith
December 26, 2017 01:00 - 11 minutes - 5.18 MBRon Smith is the founder of Chalder Consulting, a consultancy offering IT advisory, project management, and business analyst services. He is a husband and father based in New Brunswick, Canada. Ron also runs Managing Projects, a site dedicated to helping project managers with thought-provoking articles, interviews, and training tips. In this episode, Derek interviews Ardent Development co-host Ron Smith about his journey in the IT industry and why he’s doing the podcast. Where to...
#002 – Weird Things About Time with Andrew Burke
December 19, 2017 01:00 - 26 minutes - 12 MBAndrew Burke has been a professional independent developer for over 20 years, working in everything from HyperCard and Lotus Notes to Ruby on Rails and iOS. Besides building software for various businesses, he teaches web development, speaks at conferences, and has several SaaS products and iOS apps on the side. In his spare time, he also does fan art mash-ups of iconic science fiction ships and characters with equally iconic Nova Scotian scenery – which are surprisingly popular in ...
#001 – Emotional Intelligence and Leadership with Mike Hayes
November 22, 2017 23:03 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBMike Hayes is a certified coach, teacher, and speaker with the John Maxwell Team and the president of Changing Leaf, a leadership development company dedicated to developing better leaders. He’s also the co-author of Dreaming Big Being Bold 2: Inspiring Stories from Trailblazers, Visionaries and Change Makers. In this episode, Derek Hatchard and Ron Smith chat with Mike about emotional intelligence, leadership, and ways to make positive changes in your career. Mentioned in this ep...
Yuck, I Got Data on my Hands
February 24, 2010 12:45Once upon a time I wrote a computer program that did not require data. It was called helloworld.exe and it was awesome. It was also a wee bit useless. The essence of useful software is taking input, doing something with it, and spitting something out. There is lots of data out there. My first professional … Continue reading Yuck, I Got Data on my Hands The post Yuck, I Got Data on my Hands appeared first on Ardent Development Podcast.
Survival Skills for Developers
February 10, 2010 12:15Let’s suspend reality for a moment and pretend you’re heading out into the woods this weekend. Set aside the fact that you are a software developer and have no business tromping around out in the wilderness. You’re going to want to take along a few basics: maybe some matches, a tent or shelter of some … Continue reading Survival Skills for Developers The post Survival Skills for Developers appeared first on Ardent Development Podcast.
No Facebook Connect Cookies for Localhost Development
January 20, 2010 21:16While doing some Facebook Connect development, I found that the expected cookies were not being set when developing on localhost. To fix the problem, I added localhost.local to my hosts file (pointing at 127.0.0.1) and changed the settings for my Facebook application to use localhost.local as the base domain. The post No Facebook Connect Cookies for Localhost Development appeared first on Ardent Development Podcast.
Visual Studio 2008 Hangs When Debugging ASP.NET App
January 11, 2010 20:12I’ve been doing some work with ASP.NET MVC but was having periodic issues with Visual Studio 2008 hanging (freezing / becoming unresponsive) when I tried to run my web application with debugging. The problem only occurred with a specific web project. I tried deleting the Temporary ASP.NET Files (%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp\Temporary ASP.NET Files) but that did not … Continue reading Visual Studio 2008 Hangs When Debugging ASP.NET App The post Visual Studio 2008 Hangs When Debugging AS...
Forms Not Submitting With Watir?
September 29, 2009 13:44Watir, pronounced water, is an open-source (BSD) library for automating web browsers. It allows you to write tests that are easy to read and maintain. It is simple and flexible. Watir drives browsers the same way people do. It clicks links, fills in forms, presses buttons. Watir also checks results, such as whether expected text … Continue reading Forms Not Submitting With Watir? The post Forms Not Submitting With Watir? appeared first on Ardent Development Podcast.
Fix for WordPress XMLRPC 500 Internal Server Error
July 15, 2009 19:13One of my WordPress-based sites (http://crowdspace.net) was not working when I tried to publish posts containing images from Windows Live Writer. I was getting a 500 Internal Server Error. I was able to fix the problem by making a small change to the database. The Error Message I enabled Failed Request Tracing in IIS7 to … Continue reading Fix for WordPress XMLRPC 500 Internal Server Error The post Fix for WordPress XMLRPC 500 Internal Server Error appeared first on Ardent Development Podc...
New Developer Comic – Enjoy
April 22, 2009 14:13Here’s the first in the series of comics about developers coming from Microsoft: The post New Developer Comic – Enjoy appeared first on Ardent Development Podcast.
The Art and War of Estimating and Scheduling Software
August 29, 2007 14:18In my experience, the majority of estimates and schedules for software development projects are derived from hunches, guesswork, and gut instincts. We say things like “that should take about 4 hours of work” without backing it up with data. And we set timelines based on those estimates without adjusting for past accuracy in estimating. And … Continue reading The Art and War of Estimating and Scheduling Software The post The Art and War of Estimating and Scheduling Software appeared first...
Cookieless Session with ASP.NET Ajax and Web Services
July 04, 2007 18:29I just discovered a little snag when calling session-enabled ASMX web services from ASP.NET Ajax using cookieless session tracking (hat tip to Guy Barrette for raising the issue). Here’s the scenario: You are using cookieless sessions and want to call a web service in the same web app from JavaScript code. With cookieless session state, … Continue reading Cookieless Session with ASP.NET Ajax and Web Services The post Cookieless Session with ASP.NET Ajax and Web Services appeared first on...
Multiple Mouse Pointers in Windows
June 04, 2007 19:56The Microsoft Windows MultiPoint Software Development Kit (SDK) helps developers create programs that enable the use of multiple mice on a single computer. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a137998b-e8d6-4fff-b805-2798d2c6e41d&DisplayLang=en This is really neat. It will be a big help if you are working on same-room collaboration systems. It also makes it plausible to port applications to large touch systems like … Continue reading Multiple Mouse Pointers in Windows ...
POSTing to a webpage and using it’s response (HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse)
December 20, 2006 20:44You might encounter a situation where you need to Post to a web page and read it’s response. Here’s a function that uses System.Net.HttpWebRequest and System.Net.HttpWebResponse to do just that. ' Usage: ' Dim xmlDoc As Xml.XmlDocument ' xmlDoc.Load(MakeHttpRequest( _ "request=listPersons&filter=last(a*)", _ "/requestManager.php", _ "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")) Protected Function MakeHttpRequest( ByVal data As String, _ ByVal url … Continue reading POSTing to a webpage and using it’...
ASP.NET Membership and passwordStrengthRegularExpression
March 21, 2006 23:28by Sebastien Aube Membership in the .NET framework 2.0 allows you to add security to your application with little to no code. When trying to enforce strong password rules in our church software I encounteredan interesting problem. At first I modified the web.config by adding the following line to our membershipprovider section. passwordStrengthRegularExpression=“(?=.{8,})[a-z]+[^a-z]+|[^a-z]+[a-z]+” RegEx explained: … Continue reading ASP.NET Membership and passwordStrengthRegularExpression ...
How to check for a network connection in .NET 2.0 (C# or VB)
January 18, 2006 04:15To check for a network connection in .NET 2.0 use this: System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkInterface.GetIsNetworkAvailable() To monitor a change in IP address or a change in network availability, use the events from the NetworkChange class: System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkChange.NetworkAvailabilityChanged System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkChange.NetworkAddressChanged The post How to check for a network connection in .NET 2.0 (C# or VB) appeared first on Ardent Development Podcast.