Extroverted Developer
19 episodes - English -Computer Programming and Technology in New York City
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Extroverted Developer #20
October 07, 2012 13:18 - 13.3 MBThis week Ben and I just chit chat about some goings on around NYC in technology. I kinda talk a lot this episode. Show Notes iPhone 5 Maker Fair was this weekend 3D Printing Micro controllers !!!! (obviously my favorite topic) Arduino DIY: An iPhone controlled A/C Raspberry Pi (only place I’ve found that has them in stock is here The EPA was at Maker Fair doing great stuff with micro controllers and UAV Helicopters Adobe’s new open source font for coding: Source Code Pro Siri and...
Extroverted Developer #19 - Brian Guthrie
September 07, 2012 00:00 - 23.4 MBThis week Ben and I talk with Thoughtworks developer Brian Guthrie about learning computer science, agile development and Test Driven Development. Show Notes Khan Academy revamped CS program Inventing on Principle Steve Yeggie’s Conservative vs Liberal programmers rant Jonathan Haidt on the moral mind. (conservatives vs liberals on morality, very insightful) Jim offer’s up that it might be good to write custom plugins for your IDE that are specific to your office Sublime Build files f...
Extroverted Developer #18 - Gayle Laakmann McDowell
August 30, 2012 22:50 - 14.4 MBThis week Ben and I talk with Author, Entrepreneur and owner of careercup.com, former Google hiring committee member Gayle Laakmann McDowell about her two books: Cracking the Coding Interview and The Google Resume about how to get a job at the big tech companies Show Notes Interview preparation for Software Engineers looking to get into Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. How do technical interviews work at the large tech companies? Resume tips for the professional programmer! On MBAs The S...
Extroverted Developer #17 - 2TonStudios
August 23, 2012 02:21 - 19.2 MBThis week Ben and I talk with indy game developer 2TonStudios about their new iOS game: Ninjaboy Show Notes Why program video games? Performance and how video games are the indy 500 of programming Carmack’s Keynote Optimizing the challenge curve. Why choose Unity? Tried MonoTouch and MonoGame for the initial port from Windows Phone 7 How’s the $0.99 price point working? (no longer first marketing, we took too long to get the show out) How much does marketing play a role? Why is the...
Extroverted Developer Shorts - Knight Capital
August 06, 2012 16:00 - 8.18 MBBen and I chat quickly about what happened this week at Knight Capital. How a software bug took a profitable company to bankruptcy in 1 hour. Show Notes Technical explanation on Nanex John Carmack’s 2012 Quakecon keynote Play Download ExtrovertedDeveloperShort-KnightCapital
Extroverted Developer #16 - Chris Smith
July 24, 2012 16:01 - 25.7 MBThis week Ben and I get a chance to geek out with Chris Smith, author of Programming F#, about the recently completed second edition. Chris is a former SDET on the Microsoft F# team, and currently works for Google on developer tools. Show Notes Lots of stuff about F# History of functional programming What are monads? What are you doing at the Google? Google closure compiler *terrible name, has nothing to do with ‘Closure’ on the JVM ProTips Jim: Alan Kay interview on Dr. Dobbs Ben: ...
Extroverted Developer #15
July 19, 2012 14:14 - 20.5 MBThis week Ben and I riff on some news stories along with friend and ZocDoc developer, Jeremy Kimball. Show Notes Please ‘Like’ us on Facebook by clicking the Like button on the side of the site Device independent pixels and the ‘rem’ unit in CSS/HTML. As well as device independent pixels in WPF, and Android development. Craigslist takes down pad mapper Ben and I disagree on whether Craigslist a net good, or evil in the world? Profits per employee for various companies I talk about a s...
Extroverted Developer #14 - Santos Cordon
June 26, 2012 18:28 - 24.2 MBToday Ben and I interview former Microsoftie turned Googler, Santos Cordon about programming. Show Notes How did you get into programming? Learning about computers back in the dos/windows days Ti Calculator programming. How did you get to Microsoft? Your work on Office What brought you to NY? The most important thing for an individual developer’s quality is actually using the software. Interviewing and what it can tell you about a company. How would you interview developers for you...
Extroverted Developer #13
June 18, 2012 16:00 - 19 MBThis week Ben and I slightly change the format of the podcast to talk about some more current events type things. Show Notes The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Food On the Table - MapItPrices with a better business model. We need more scientific thinking in business Archive.org and the need for archiving the internet by an independent 3rd party and not in the hands of the likes of Facebook Library of Congress ...
Extroverted Developer #12 - Jonathan Baker
June 11, 2012 16:00 - 22.9 MBThis week Ben and I talk with Director of Mobility Evangelism at SAP, located in our nations capitol, about mobile database technologies and software engineering. Show Notes Sybase acquisition by SAP. Mobile databases and small footprint databases. SAP making a play on Oracle. Do you still get to code? Building mobile application development is just beginning for many enterprises. What are the main challenges for dealing with enterprise and mobile? How does the iPhone play with enter...
Extroverted Developer #11 - We're not dead yet
May 14, 2012 02:39 - 15.2 MBThis week, Ben and I discuss why we haven’t had shows recently. A new venture called MapItPrices, and the news that Xamarin Studios has ported Android to C# Show Notes MapItPrices Where’s the cheap beer? NYC Mentorship Program Accepting applications NOW! Xamarin ported Android to C# and mono Listen Download ExtrovertedDeveloper11-WereNotDeadYet
Extroverted Developer #10 - Toby Muresianu
March 26, 2012 16:00 - 17.8 MBThis week Ben and I chat with former Microsoftie turned Standup Comic, Toby Muresianu about careers in Software. Show Notes Toby the Comic My picker is broken Toby’s twitter feed Listen Download ExtrovertedDeveloper10-TobyMuresianu
Extroverted Developer #9
March 19, 2012 16:00 - 14 MBThis week Ben and I chat during a CityMaps party about what it takes to be a computer programmer. How do you get into this field, and most importantly can anybody do it? Show Notes Extra Creditz has an amazing wealth of discussion topics http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/so-you-want-to-be-a-developer-part-1 http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/mailbag-4 (ideas are worthless) http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/commentary/why-you-should-learn-how-code Fun Pics Listen Download E...
Extroverted Developer #8
March 13, 2012 02:41 - 13.1 MBIn this Episode Ben and I talk about why there wasn’t a podcast last week. (hint: we shipped a ton of new software) Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Ninja Blocks If This Then That Yahoo Pipes Play Download ExtrovertedDeveloper8
Extroverted Developer #7 - Sean Cribbs
February 27, 2012 15:37 - 17.9 MBThis week Ben and I talk with Basho developer Sean Cribbs about NoSQL and how they write software. Show Notes Riak Amazon’s Dynamo Paper Riak is really good for cloud storage LAMP pretty much scales horizontally vs Microsoft’s big iron approach Voxer is probably the biggest deployment of Riak How do you work effectively remotely? Chatrooms:Hipchat, Campfire and Hubot Agile Zen for ensuring you have a pull based workflow Differences in culture re: work hours between west and east co...
Extroverted Developer #6
February 20, 2012 17:00 - 16.3 MBThis week it’s just Ben and I riffing in the new CityMaps HQ with our new recording equipment. Show Notes What we learned in podcasting My first voice over How do you construct software? Software engineering processes. Language doesn’t matter as proven by perl (Is Perl Better than a Randomly Generated Programming Language?) Polyglut vs single language shops Starbucks does not use two phase commit (including my revolutionary idea for them to fix the lines) Then Ben and I kind of just ...
Extroverted Developer #5 - Rachel Appel
February 13, 2012 17:00This week we talk with Microsoft’s Rachel Appel, a developer evangelist for web technologies. An area where Microsoft has arguably had some challenges attracting developers to their stack. Show Notes: What is an evangelist? ASP Class vs WebForms vs ASP MVC Do Evangelists still get to code? Silk Project, a model application for learning how to do ASP MVC. Please make deployment better for ASP MVC Deploying with TFS vs Git Hosted TFS in the cloud Give Camp Startups and Microsoft tech...
Extroverted Developer #3 - Jared Parsons
January 30, 2012 17:01 - 27.8 MBIn this show we talk about VsVim the hugely popular free extension that adds Vim bindings to Visual Studio 2010 (written in F#).We talk about Vim vs Emacs a bit.We then talk about social coding and github, as well as talk a lot about Stackoverflow and Jared’s rise to, at one time, #4 in the SO ranking.
Extroverted Developer #2
January 23, 2012 17:00 - 10.3 MBOn today’s show we discussion SOPA/PIPA protests in NYC, as well as Jenn Day joins us as a special guest with the business side (marketing) perspective on programmers and startups Show Notes Citymaps NY Tech Meetup SOPA/PIPA Protest Stack Exchange Infographic Visual Studio Achievements REAMDE: A Novel Listen Download Episode 2 - Jenn Day
Episode #1
January 15, 2012 20:33 - 13.5 MBThis is the first episode of a new series Tech and the City Extroverted Developer hosted by Jim Wallace and Ben Gundersen. Being that this is the first podcast I’ve ever recorded and produced, there’s probably audio issues, additional ums and ahs that I didn’t edit out correctly and other issues with the quality in general. Hope to fix these as we gain more experience in this medium. Show Notes: Ready Player One Listen Download: Episode #1 - Hello World