Coding Blocks
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The Twelve-Factor App: Port Binding, Concurrency, and Disposability
November 23, 2015 05:01 - 1 hour - 68.8 MBIt's time for more DevOps fun as we continue learning about the Twelve-Factor app. This week we dive into the next three chapters: port binding, concurrency, and disposability.
Toys for Developers
November 10, 2015 02:42 - 1 hour - 100 MBThe holidays are coming sooner than we realized, so we gotta get our wish lists together. After all, no one wants to sit around the Festivus Pole without their favorite dev toys. This week we discuss some of the toys we love, as well as the ones we drool over, and even the ones we're not so crazy about.
The Twelve-Factor App: Backing Services, Building and Releasing, Stateless Processes
October 22, 2015 01:40 - 1 hour - 75.6 MBWe’re headed back to the Twelve-Factor app territory and this time we’re picking up with the next three chapters – backing services, building and releasing and processes. Jump in to get the shownotes and listen to the next three pieces of building a manageable and scalable twelve-factor app. Survey News Mark Tinsley – PHP Composer […]
The Twelve-Factor App: Codebase, Dependencies, and Config
September 17, 2015 20:54 - 1 hour - 67.4 MBDipping our toes into the DevOps waters with the Twelve-Factor App. How important is depedency management, and how fired would you be if you accidentally leaked your company’s source code? News We have a new logo! Allen was right… Soundcloud Thanks for the reviews! GunBlade77 What is the Twelve-Factor App? A methodology for writing applications […]
Javascript Promises and Beyond
August 22, 2015 15:48 - 1 hour - 71.8 MBIn this episode we dive into Javascript Promises. If you’re used to the olden way of doing an async call with a callback, you’ll definitely want to give this episode a listen as you could improve your mental sanity 10 fold by learning how to use promises in your application! Survey – What is Your Favorite Language? […]
Design Patterns Part 4 – Adapter, Facade, and Memento
July 26, 2015 12:00 - 1 hour - 67.9 MBPart 4 of our design patterns series, this time up it's Adapters, Facades, and Mementos. Oh, an which tech luminary would make the best head of state!
Hierarchical Data cont’d – Path Enumeration and Closure Tables
June 29, 2015 16:09 - 1 hour - 63.6 MBIt's that time again. This week we answer a question, Allen registers for school, Joe reads some numbers, Michael breaks out the survey results, and Joe cringes at the thought of bidets. It's time for episode 29! And we thought, what better to talk about than to continue our discussion on hierarchical data solutions.
Hierarchical Data – Adjacency Lists and Nested Set Models
June 08, 2015 22:29 - 1 hour - 44.9 MBSo, how DO you persist hierarchical Data? We discuss two common solutions to this age-old problem: Adjacency Lists and Nested Set Models. Also, Build Atlanta, technical problems, multi-monitor vs ultra-wide, and utilizing gaming mice to up your game. See all the notes and take the poll by going to: http://www.codingblocks.net/episode28 News Big thanks for the […]
Your Questions Our Answers SYN-ACK with Packet Loss
May 08, 2015 03:42 - 1 hour - 86.8 MBIn this, Episode 27 of the Coding Blocks Podcast, we are answering several questions from our listeners regarding: more frequent episodes, naming of classes / assemblies, Test Driven Development, the differences between MVC and MVVM and a number of other side conversations such as aliasing tables in SQL. As always we’d love to hear back […]
Algorithms, Puzzles and the Technical Interview
April 19, 2015 18:37 - 1 hour - 79.1 MBOn this episode we discuss algorithms, puzzles and how to approach them when asked to solve one in the interview process. We discuss many of the problems programmers face when being asked to solve these types of problems as well as steps to alleviate some of these common issues. We also provide a number of resources for sharpening your problem solving skills as well as a number of resources, and of course our favorite tips!
ASP.NET 5 – It’s Basically Java
March 30, 2015 02:23 - 1 hour - 86 MBThis week we give away Joe's stuff, we break up with IE8 like a big boy, Joe and Allen get excited about readme files, and we argue about which is worse: bad code or bad architecture. That and more in this week's episode where we explore the new bits in ASP.NET 5.
Delegate all the things!
March 16, 2015 02:36 - 1 hour - 40.5 MBThis week we tackle one of life's great quesitons, does Jack Bauer give high fives? Also, we go over everything you need to know about delegates, events, callbacks and closures in .NET. Big thanks to @kappelcodesalot for being the inspiration for this episode!
Back to Basics – Encapsulation for Object Oriented Programming
February 10, 2015 05:49 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBIt's time to get back to basics. It's easy as a software developer to be working on the latest and greatest frameworks, using the best methodologies, trying out new things. Sometimes it's a good idea to get a refresher on the very basic fundamentals. In this episode we go over the access modifiers that are common in C# and Java as well as ways to emulate these types of behaviors in Javascript. And let's be honest - encapsulation is only effective if you're providing programmers that come ...
Silverlighting through your College Enumeration
January 21, 2015 23:51 - 1 hour - 29 MBCoding Blocks Episode 22 is live! Organizing your code, moving from school-work to work-work, the future of Silverlight, and lots of poo-pooing! News Great testing tool suggestions from Anders Bauman: TDDHelper, NCrunch We had to look up our new year’s resolutions – not a good sign! Awesome reviews from punforgettable, Jonno Choo, AdamTheHun, Elistaria, JeramyRR, […]
Our Favorite Tools
December 28, 2014 19:48 - 1 hour - 74.2 MBWe gather around the Festivus pole this holiday season and before we get into the Airing of Grievances, we discuss our favorite tools. No, not people. Actual tools. Srsly.
We’re Testing Your Patience…
December 15, 2014 05:16 - 1 hour - 79.1 MBI figured this title was appropriate considering it's been a month since our last episode. We've all been incredibly busy so we hope you've been patient waiting and maybe, just maybe it was worth the wait! We've crammed quite a bit into this episode which is all about testing. Follow the more link to see the show notes for this particular episode and don't forget to click one of the share buttons there to let all your friends know about the podcast!
Design Patterns – Iterators, Observers, and Chains, Oh My
November 09, 2014 01:53 - 1 hour - 29.2 MBWe’re back to the gang of four, continuing with another segment of design patterns. This time we’re talking about some of our favorite Behavioral Design Patterns: Observer, Chain of Responsibilities, Iterator patterns. Also, why the visitor pattern is weird and what it’s like to be raked over hot coals. News Atlanta Code Camp was amazing […]
Programmer Questions and Answers
October 26, 2014 03:06 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBWe’re very excited about ASP.NET vNext, we’ve never been seen together, and a cute little ninja was MEAN to Allen. All that and more in this week’s episode where we attempt to answer some questions.
Got Any Hot Stacks?!
September 26, 2014 03:48 - 59 minutes - 54 MBIn this episode, we have a discussion about what type of technology stack you should choose when you go to create your own project whether it be for profit or an open source type of deal. As programmers, we often struggle with balancing our ADHD tendencies to code in every language known to man, or […]
Design Patterns Part 2 – Oh behave!
September 05, 2014 23:59 - 1 hour - 28.9 MBThis week we’re following up on our episode about talking about Creational Design Patterns a few of our favorite behavioral patterns: Template. Strategy, and Null Object. Also, pumpkin spice lattes, Mario’s pants, and a billion dollar mistake. Points of Interest Pumpkin Spice Latte is back! Great feedback from NDepend, great things coming in V6! LG […]
Static Analysis w/ NDepends – How good is your code?
August 10, 2014 21:04 - 1 hour - 38.2 MBThis week we’re discussing NDpend, a static analysis tool for .NET. Triage your biggest problems, Prioritize your refactoring, and CYA with real metrics and trend lines. We also discuss hidden nuggets, Pintrest-envy, and we pour another one out for google reader. News Check out our YouTube channel! Angular 2.0 is coming! Beginning XML in SQL […]
Databases the SQL [see-kwuhl]
July 25, 2014 03:52 - 1 hour - 85.3 MBWelcome back for part 2 of the podcast about databases. In this half, we discuss several of the things we believe that developers should know about databases. From joins to unions, group by’s and indexing, we try to touch on a lot of the items that most developers should at least be familiar with when […]
All Your Database Are Belong to Us
July 14, 2014 02:42 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBPart one of our two part database podcast starts with choosing the RDBMS (Relational Database Management System) and what to do when you run into deficiencies in that particular database system. First and foremost, what’s with the title?! Are these guys grammatically challenged? If that was your first thought, then you should check out this link: […]
What programmer do you want to be?
June 22, 2014 23:39 - 1 hour - 31.3 MB“Water Cooler” episode talking about sweet sugary C# kisses, JavaScript as a first language, T-shaped developers, how to get addicted to drugs and…Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Points of Interest Keep the keys! Go follow @trentapple and check his site out at www.trentapple.com! A year’s worth of tech podcasts! from @patrikdahlen NativeScript – Cross […]
Design Patterns Part 1 – You Create Me!
June 07, 2014 11:20 - 1 hour - 44.5 MBThis week we’re tackling the first section of seminal Design Patterns book: Creational Patterns. We discuss factories of factories, “bullet hell” games, pathological liars, and Allen’s lack of voice. Big thanks to @rajsotweet for calling us out and getting us motivated to record! Points of Interest .NET Framework 4.5.2 is out! ASP vNext Awesome stats […]
C# 6 and Roslyn – Pour Some Sugar On Me
May 05, 2014 00:25 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBThis week we’re taking pot shots from the peanut gallery! We talk about new features in C# 6. What we like, what we love…and binary literals. We also struggle to define Roslyn and BONUS! poetry reading from Michael Outlaw! Points of Interest Build Keynote in 7 minutes – via @patrikdahlen Allen owes the world a […]
Aspectacular with Vlad Hrybok – You down with AOP?
April 01, 2014 17:16 - 1 hour - 37.7 MBYou down with AOP? This week we’re talking with Vlad Hrybok about his spectacular Aspect Oriented Framework: Aspectacular. Highlights include lots of Design Patterns, Acronyms, Buzzwords and…Duff Beer? ChangeLog Interesting debate about SOLID principles An attempt at a completely SOLID implementation of TicTacToe Great feedback on /r/csharp Interesting viewpoint from an anti-craftsman on dotnetrocks, great […]
Accessories for Programmers
March 18, 2014 00:30 - 55 minutes - 25.3 MBQ: What do developers love more than developing? A: Expensive accessories!!! This week we’re talking about our Christmas in July lists. Dream keyboards, mouses, office furniture and tablets…oh my! Lots of links below. Click and drool. Keyboards Joe’s favorite is The CODE Keyboard Mike’s favorite is any old plain keyboard – previous was the Logitech […]
SOLID as a Rock!
March 03, 2014 03:06 - 1 hour - 29.2 MBThis week we tackle the SOLID principles in .NET and discuss the eternal struggle between perfect code and looming deadlines. Please leave us feedback in your Podcasting app of choice! Update: Great comments/debate on reddit! About Solid SOLID Principles for writing maintainable and extendable software Michael Feathers and “Uncle Bob” Robert Martin May be impossible […]
There’s Something About LINQ
January 25, 2014 05:40 - 1 hour - 29.7 MBThis week we’re talking about LINQ, what’s so special about .NET, the differences IQueryable and IEnumerable, and another round of “Never Have I Ever”. Oh, and jokes! Download the episode on iTunes or Stitcher and make sure to send us your feedback! What is LINQ? Language Integrated Query Common interface for working with data Famous […]
We Still Don’t Understand Open Source Licensing
December 28, 2013 02:37 - 47 minutes - 21.9 MBThis week we’re trying to wrap our heads around open source software licensing. We discuss the main types of licenses (and a few of our favorites!), what it means to violate a license, and take a fun look at a few weird questions. Download the episode on iTunes or Stitcher and make sure to send […]
OWASP and You!
November 27, 2013 11:59 - 1 hour - 30.9 MBThis week, we talk about OWASP and their list of top 10 application security risks. What they are, infamous examples, and what you can do about it. Download the episode on iTunes or Stitcher and make sure to send us your feedback. Thanks for listening! Show Notes Overview OWASP.org Top 10 culled from 100s organizations, […]
Source Control Etiquette
October 12, 2013 02:36 - 56 minutes - 25.9 MBThis episode is all about source control etiquette. It’s a bit different from the last two podcasts we released and we’d love to hear how you liked it! Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher and make sure to send us your feedback! Show Notes Duration ~56 Discussion on Source Control Etiquette 00:00 – 25:09 A tale […]
Boxing and Unboxing in .NET
September 28, 2013 14:08 - 33 minutes - 15.4 MBThis episode is all about boxing and unboxing. We discuss memory management, the pros (yes, there are a few!) and cons of boxing/unboxing, some of the weird side effects and how to you can avoid it with generics and ToString methods. Download the episode on iTunes or Stitcher and make sure to drop your feedback […]
I is for Interface
September 09, 2013 15:26 - 45 minutes - 20.8 MBThe good, the bad, and the ugly side of interfaces. We list some minor gripes, their limitations, and some strange gotchas as well as some tips for how we like to (mis|ab)use them. Download the episode on iTunes or Stitcher. Show Notes Duration: ~44m What Are Interfaces? 0:00 – 5:21 Interfaces are a contract Interfaces […]