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Vancouver Tech Podcast

108 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★ - 1 rating

The Vancouver Tech Podcast is a weekly show focusing on the growing tech industry in the city of Vancouver. Get caught up on the events and meetups around town, startups, new businesses, developers, designers, community programs, and news. Each episode includes an interview with an outstanding member of our community.

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Episode 107 - Charlene Tessier, Strength in Numbers Virtual Summit

September 28, 2020 20:23 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MB

Charlene Tessier, Strength in Numbers Virtual Summit   Charlene Tessier, founder of the Strength in Numbers virtual summit joins hosts Lauren Bates and Drew Ogryzek this week to discuss community building, and networking in the current state of the world. Have a listen, and make sure to get your free ticket to the Strength in Numbers virtual summit with a host of amazing guest speakers, and interactive workshops. Topics range from Equity Splits and Aligning your Message, to Credibility an...

Episode 106 - Kahlil Ashanit, Founder of WeShowUp.io

September 14, 2020 19:00 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MB

Kahlil Ashanti, Founder of WeShowUp.io Kahlil Ashanti, Founder of WeShowUp.io, joins hosts Lauren Bates and Drew Ogryzek to discuss the journey of discovering and developing a product and a business that has come out of a combining a rich history of experience in performing arts and web-based payments. "In addition to performing, it was actually our job to stand and thank every audience member who came to see us," explains Ashanti reminscing of the early days of his perfomance career in...

Episode 105 - John Thompson, Analytics Leader & Best Selling Author

August 31, 2020 20:23 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MB

John Thompson, Analytics Leader & Best Selling Author, Keynote Speaker, Data Science Thought Leader. John Thompson, Global Head, Advanced Analytics & Artificial Intelligence at CSL Behring. Author of Building Analytics Teams: Harnessing analytics and artificial intelligence for business improvement, and Analytics: How to Win with Intelligence joins hosts Lauren Bates and Drew Ogryzek for episode 105 of the Vancouver Tech Podcast. Thompson explains that he started writing his latest book, ...

Episode 104 - Annee Ngo, CEO of Startup League and QUP

September 23, 2019 21:00 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MB

-Download Episode 104 Annee Ngo, Co-Founder and CEO of Startup League Join Annee Ngo, Co-Founder and CEO of Startup League with host Drew Ogryzek to talk about Startup League, QUP, and more for the first episode of the new Fall 2019 Season of the Vancouver Tech Podcast. Having spent the past several years in the North American startup scene, spending time in Vancouver, New York, San Francisco, Ngo shares insights garnished from leading endeavors such as ProtoHack, a code free hackathon, ...

Episode 103: Angela Griffin, CTO of Glance Technologies

December 28, 2017 20:08 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MB

-Download Episode 103 Angela Griffen, CTO of Glance Technologies Angela Griffen, CTO of Glance Technologies Inc. joins host Drew Ogryzek to talk about Glance Pay, the life of a CTO, team culture, and more! As a seasoned software developer and CTO, having started her career when building web-based software solutions was first starting out, Griffen shares knowledge and insight ranging from domain expertise, the role of a CTO as companies grow over time, the beginnings of Glance Pay, and so...

Episode 102: Startup Resources and Funding with Mike Volker of New Ventures BC

November 27, 2017 03:30 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MB

-Download Episode 102 Mike Volker of New Ventures BC Mike Volker of New Ventures BC joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss New Ventures BC, its venture acceleration program, and the BCIC-New Ventures Competition. "The ideal participant would be an individual participant or group of indivuduals that think they have something that has huge potential in the marketplace. And, they need some guidance, they need some help figuring out how to take their idea and commercialize it," Volker explains. ...

Episode 101: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency & ICOs with Jeffery Walsh of EtherParty

November 01, 2017 19:00 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MB

Jeffery Walsh, EtherParty Developer VanBex, a team of blockchain consultants and experts does client work, helping with development, marketing for businesses that want to integrate blockchain, smart contracts, crowdfunding and also has their own projects. EtherParty is a VanBex project that helps by making smart contracts easier to use. Smart contracts exist on the Ethereum blockchain. EtherParty is like the Wix or Squarespace of smart contracts; an app you can use to click through and ma...

Digital Identification: Joni Brennan

October 24, 2017 14:45 - 25 minutes - 19.4 MB

Joni Brennan, President of DIACC Joni Brennan, president of the Digital Identification and Authentication Council of Canada joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss digital identity, and some of the challenges, dangers, and benefits associated with it. Brennan is working on trying to solve some of the problems with digital identity, such as storage of personal information across multiple sites, including photocopies of driver's licenses, having too many user ids and passwords, and many breaches...

Episode 99: Business Organization with Ahmad Nassri, Principal Architect at Telus Digital

October 06, 2017 21:03 - 30 minutes - 23.4 MB

Special Guest Ahmad Nassri of Telus Digital Special guest Ahmad Nassri, Principal Architect at Telus Digital joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss community building, TechMasters, and business and team organization. Nassri likes to describe Telus Digital, an approximately 300 person team, with a large presence in Vancouver as well as Toronto, as being the software arm, or the part that enables all the digital experiences that Telus customers, whether business or consumers are interacting wit...

Episode 98: Recruiting & Hiring with Nicky Kunstman of InVision

October 05, 2017 15:50 - 29 minutes - 22.7 MB

Special Guest Nicky Kunstman, Internal Recruiter at InVision Special guest Nicky Kunstman joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss InVision, and the process of recruiting. People who are passionate about issues of scale, usability, cloud-computing, and seeing the difference they are able to make in the lives of people on the design and UX side of things, while helping them make better products may find working with InVision appealing. Listen in to dive into questions around the interviewing pr...

Episode 97: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency & ICOs - with MaRi Eagar and Manie Eagar

October 02, 2017 23:59 - 43 minutes - 38.6 MB

Special Guests MaRi Eagar and Manie Eagar Special guests Manie and MaRi Eagar of Digital Futures, who conducted the first study in Canada that set out to discover competitive drivers to build and further develop the ecosystem that supports Vancouver, BC, and Canada, as a global Blockchain and FinTech hub. And who have more associations and accomplishments than can easily be listed in an introduction join host Drew Ogryzek to discuss blockchain, cryptocurrencies and ICOs, and their implicat...

Episode 96: Continuous Delivery with Dan Garfield of Codefresh

September 27, 2017 06:30 - 45 minutes - 40 MB

Special Guest Dan Garfield of Codefresh Special guest Dan Garfield, VP of Marketing at Codefresh joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss continuous deployment with Codefresh, a CI/CD (continuous integration and deployment) platform with a focus on providing end-to-end automation for everything containers and Kubernetes. Historically looking at how automation has been done, there has been a lot of scripting, and a lot of duplication of work; people are building the same machines over and over ag...

Episode 95: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency & ICOs with Dieter Shirley of AxiomZen

September 20, 2017 18:50 - 28 minutes - 22.6 MB

Special Guest Dieter Shirley of AxiomZen Special guest Dieter Shirley of AxiomZen joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss blockchain, cryptocurrency, and ICOs. AxiomZen is a company that is always investigating new technologies, building their own startups, partnering with external investors to build startups with them, building companies for fortune 500 companies and other industry groups. For AxiomZen, breaking new ground, rather than building "me too" products is the norm. Naturally, blockch...

Episode 94: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency & ICOs with Boris Mann of FrontierFoundry

September 18, 2017 22:30 - 48 minutes - 37.1 MB

Special Guest Boris Mann of FrontierFoundry Special Guest Boris Mann of FrontierFoundry joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss blockchain, cryptocurrency and ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings). Mann is an active contributor to helping grow Vancouver's technical community, he is involved in open source, running "geek meetups," and started FrontierFroundry with Adrian Jonklaas in March of 2017. FrontierFoundry was concieved with the question in mind, "What kind of company can we build in Vancouver t...

Episode 93: Blockchain, Crypto Currencies & ICOs - Llew Morkel of ProsperiProp

September 11, 2017 18:00 - 35 minutes - 26.2 MB

Special Guest Llew Morkel of ProsperiProp Special Guest Llew Morkel of ProsperiProp in South Africa joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings). Founder of ProsperiProp, a company currently in the process of an ICO (Initial Coin Offering), Morkel says the idea is to make it possible for a person with as little as USD $2.00 to get involved with property investment. There's often quite a high dollar bar, or minimum investment to get inv...

Episode 92: Barinder Rasode, President & CEO of NICHE Canada, and Cofounder of She Talks

September 08, 2017 23:15 - 30 minutes - 22.5 MB

Special Guest Barinder Rasode, President and CEO of NICHE Canada, and Co-Founder of RoundHouse Radio's She Talks Special Guest Barinder Rasode, President and CEO of NICHE Canada, and Co-Founder of She Talks joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss cannabis legalization in Canada, and how NICHE Canada (National Institute for Cannabis Health and Education) fits in. Initially, Rasode was opposed to the proliferation of cannabis dispensaries, but seeing those who are affected in positive ways helpe...

Episode 91: Alex Cruise, Architect/Development Manager at Splunk

August 28, 2017 18:30 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MB

Special Guest Alex Cruise, Architect/Development Manager at Splunk Special guest Alex Cruise, Architect/Development Manager at Splunk joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss the development culture, organizational structure and some use cases for Splunk, the company that brings us log monitoring and analaysis tools and services. Cruise explains a little about LeSS (Large Scale Scrum), and that their team has been adopting it as a means of escaping some of the failure modes of traditional smal...

Episode 90: Kelsey Hightower, Staff Developer Advocate, Google Cloud Platform

August 21, 2017 23:45 - 25 minutes - 20.3 MB

Special Guest Kelsey Hightower, Staff Developer Advocate, Google Cloud Platform Special guest Kelsey Hightower joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss Kubernetes, its differentiating features in contrast to Mesos, CloudFoundry, Heroku and other Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions, such as OpenShift which is actually built on top of Kubernetes. When considering a fully hosted PaaS solution, if you find the opinions of the solution to be too constrained for all of your use-cases, then Kuberne...

Episode 89: Alejandro Lujan of ScalaQuest

August 14, 2017 16:00 - 26 minutes - 19.4 MB

Special Guest Alejandro Lujan of ScalaQuest Special guest Alejandro Lujan joins host Drew Ogryzek to discus the programming language Scala, the types of problems Scala, and functional programming languages in general are good at solving versus object oriented languages such as Java, for example. As a professional trainer and consultant for Lightbend Inc. Lujan brings his expertise in both programming and education to an exciting online game, ScalaQuest. Each level focuses on a topic, from...

Episode 88: Brittany Whitmore, Exvera Communications

August 09, 2017 01:00 - 29 minutes - 20.9 MB

Special Guest Brittany Whitmore of Exvera Communications Special guest Brittany Whitmore of Exvera Communications joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss PR in the world of tech, including 3D printing, crowdfunding, virtual reality, and what it means to tell great stories about inspiration and entrepreneurialism. In addition to being a public relations specialist and BC Business Top 30 under 30, Whitmore is quite active in the tech community as founder and executive director of Ted X Gastown ...

Episode 87: Shannon Salter, Chair of the Civil Resolution Tribunal

July 31, 2017 15:40 - 35 minutes - 26.2 MB

Special Guest Shannon Salter, Chair of BC's Civil Resolution Tribunal Special guest Shannon Salter, Chair of BC's Civil Resolution Tribunal joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss how technological innovation is helping increase access to justice. The online resources use ai to help people find solutions to their problems, and even resolve disputes, with the help of the CRT (Civil Resolution Tribunal). Salter, along with Lauryn Kerr, Expert Systems Analyst at the BC Ministry of Justice, Disput...

Episode 86: Monoliths vs Microservices Part IV

July 24, 2017 19:10 - 45 minutes - 31.9 MB

Special Guest Scott Bellware of the Eventide Project Special Guest Scott Bellware, co-creator of the Eventide Project, a toolkit for developing event-sourced distributed systems, joined host Drew Ogryzek for a discussion around Microservices versus Monolithic software architecture. Bellware shares insight from his development experience and offers words of advice and caution for software companies facing a rewrite of a monolith into a service-based distributed system. Follow Scott Bellwa...

Episode 85: Ken McDonald, Chief Growth Officer of TeamSnap

July 17, 2017 07:00 - 27 minutes - 17.5 MB

Special Guest Ken McDonald of TeamSnap Special guest Ken McDonald, Chief Growth Officer at TeamSnap and co-author of How to Acquire Your First Million Customers: Scaling Your Online Business by Laying the Foundation for Growth, joins host Drew Ogryzek. McDonald tells us about TeamSnap, the team management app that helps save coaches and managers time organizing their teams and groups, and shares from his extensive experience in "growth hacking," including some great insights on analytics ...

Episode 84: Jerry Chi, Data Scientist at Supercell

July 10, 2017 07:00 - 29 minutes - 23.4 MB

Special Guest Jerry Chi of Supercell Special guest Jerry Chi of Supercell, the mobile game company behind titles such as Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, and Brawl Stars, currently under soft-launch only in Canada, joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss what it's like living and working in Japan as a foreigner. Chi has an impressive background having graduated Stanford, and receiving an MBA from Wharton, while also speaking four languages: Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean. He offers insight...

Episode 83: Monoliths Vs Microservices Part 3: Nathan Ladd

July 02, 2017 07:00 - 25 minutes - 18.4 MB

Special Guest Nathan Ladd of the Eventide-Project Special guest Nathan Ladd, co-creator of the Eventide Project (http://eventide-project.org/) joins host Drew Ogryzek for a discussion around monolithic software architecture versus microservices, what that means, and what the informed CEO should know when a team is considering tackling this type of software design shift. What is a monolith? What does microservices architecture bring to the table? What should we consider when determining wh...

Episode 82: Kevin Rockwood, Skelter Labs

June 26, 2017 07:10 - 23 minutes - 12.9 MB

Special Guest Kevin Rockwood, Skelter Labs (S. Korea) Guest Kevin Rockwood from Skelter Labs in South Korea, a company working on several artificial intelligence based projects joins host Drew Ogryzek. After 8 years working in Cincinnati as a software developer, Rockwood and his wife decided to move to Korea. Having not done any research into the job market for software developers in Korea, Rockwood says attending local tech meetups, like the Seoul Elixir meetup which he currently organiz...

Episode 81: Ryan Lalonde

June 19, 2017 09:20 - 28 minutes - 20.4 MB

Special Guest Ryan Lalonde, Startup Entrepreneur Special guest Ryan Lalonde, local startup entrepreneur joins host Drew Ogryzek to discus product validation, development, finding a market, and the product he is currently working on in the growing cannabis industry. Eaze, sometimes called "Uber for weed" is a medical marijuana delivery service. Lalonde suggests that there's nothing like this is Canada, yet. So a potential market exists for someone to capitalize on. Samantha Ming from the ...

Episode 80: Melanie Ewan of Women in Tech World

June 12, 2017 07:00 - 34 minutes - 23 MB

Special Guest Melanie Ewan of Women in Tech World Guest Melanie Ewan of Women in Tech World joins host Drew Ogryzek and discusses her background, the importance of increasing diversity in tech, and the Driving WinTech Canadian tour to connect women in tech. This fall, Women in Tech (WinTech) is conducting a Canada-wide fact-finding mission to better understand and record the experiences of women in technology and to promote vibrant women in tech communities across the country. To our kno...

Episode 79: Zac Cohen, GM of Trulioo

June 05, 2017 07:00 - 29 minutes - 20.9 MB

Special Guest Zac Cohen, GM of Trulioo This week, Zac Cohen, GM of Trulioo joins host Drew Ogryzek and dicusses online identity verification. If a manufacturer, say in a developing market wanted to trade or sell, a solution that enables that transfer could identify them using Trulioo. Trulioo's service is used for identity verification, similar to how an identity may be verified through a credit bureaux. However, Trulioo's services can be used to globally. Samantha Ming from the Events Po...

Episode 78: Adam Dymitruk on Monoliths and Microservices

May 29, 2017 17:30 - 21 minutes - 15.9 MB

Monoliths Versus Microservices, Part II Dive deeper into Monoliths Versus Microservices with Part II, where special guest Adam Dymitruk, CEO of Adaptech Solutions joins host Drew Ogryzek What is a monolith? What does microservices architecture bring to the table? What should we consider when determining what makes sense for the software that drives our business? Dymitruk shares his software development experience and thoughts on what leads to the monolith, how do avoid it, where to go fr...

Episode 77: Monolith Vs Microservices

May 22, 2017 07:00 - 38 minutes - 29.7 MB

Monoliths Versus Microservices Special guests Charles Krempeaux, CTO of Koho Nathan Ladd, co-creator of the Eventide Project, Adam Dymitruk, CEO of Adaptech Solutions and Scott Bellware, co-creator of the Eventide Project join host Drew Ogryzek for a discussion around monolithic software architecture versus microservices, what that means, and what the informed CEO should know when a team is considering tackling this type of software design shift. What is a monolith? What does microservice...

Episode 76: Jonathan Natavio, CEO & Founder at Porter

May 15, 2017 07:00 - 27 minutes - 17.4 MB

Special Guest Jonathan Natavio CEO & Founder at Porter CEO & Founder at Porter (www.summonporter.ca) Jonathan Natavio, joins host Drew Ogryzek and shares his startup story from student to intern to founding a company. Porter is a tech enabled consierge platform helping companies and working professionals take care of their day to day tasks. Handling chores such as dog walking, grocery shopping, alcohol delivery, Ikea purchase and assembly, and several others you might expect. While the e...

Episode 75: Scott Bellware and Nathan Ladd, Eventide Project

May 08, 2017 07:00 - 48 minutes - 32.8 MB

Special Guests Scott Bellware & Nathan Ladd Host Drew Ogryzek and special guests Scott Bellware and Nathan Ladd of eventide-project.org discuss their backgrounds in computing, differences in the rapid iteration environment of a web startup using an MVC framework like Ruby on Rails, and the term "engineering" with regards to web-development versus embedded software and systems engineering or bridge building, time to feedback, and dive into eventsourcing. The past decade of web development ...

Episode 74: Nikolay Malyarov and David Uberti

May 01, 2017 07:00 - 38 minutes - 25.9 MB

Special Guests Nikolay Malyarov and David Uberti Special guests Nikolay Malyarov, COO of PressReader and David Uberti, staff writer for the Columbia Journalism Review join host Drew Ogryzek. Malyarov, Uberti, and Ogryzek reflect on topics from biases in journalism, the notion of objectivity, the effects of socioeconomic change on journalism media consumption, and more. In journalism, understanding that we have our biases when we're reporting, then potentially overcompensating by pointing...

Episode 73: Keith Ippel, CEO of Spring Activator

April 24, 2017 07:00 - 22 minutes - 14.5 MB

Episode 73: Keith Ippel, CEO of Spring Activator Special Guest Keith Ippel, CEO of Spring Activator Special guest Keith Ippel, Co-founder and CEO of Spring Activator speaks with host Drew Ogryzek about the interdisciplinary, inter-school hackathon Startup Hacks; a non-coding hackathon competition where business and tech oriented attendees team up and collaborate together on a mobile app idea that makes a social impact. Then jump into some discussions around Spring Activator. Spring is a ...

Episode 72: Dorfam Mirgharavi of Aequilibrium.ca

April 17, 2017 07:00 - 23 minutes - 16.5 MB

Special Promotion Scott Bellware presents a Ruby Microservices workshop in Vancouver, April 29th and 30th: Retweet https://goo.gl/dTue29 with @vantechpodcast to be entered into a draw for a free ticket! (Drawing and winner announcement on April 22nd, 2017) Special Guest Dorfam Mirgharavi, business development at Aequilibrium.ca Host Drew Ogryzek and special guest Dorfam Mirgharavi, business development at Aequilibrium.ca discuss Mirgharavi's experience in technology ranging from Future S...

Episode 71: Mark Mandel, Google Cloud Platform

April 10, 2017 07:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MB

Episode 72: Mark Mandel, Google Cloud Platform Developer Advocate Special Promotion Scott Bellware presents a Ruby Microservices workshop in Vancouver, April 29th and 30th: Retweet https://goo.gl/dTue29 with @vantechpodcast to be entered into a draw for a free ticket! (Drawing and winner announcement on April 22nd, 2017) Special Guest Mark Mandel, Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform Our special guest this week, Mark Mandel tells us about Google Cloud Platform, some ridiculous(l...

Episode 70: Adam Dymitruk of Adaptech Solutions

April 03, 2017 07:00 - 56 minutes - 40.1 MB

Download Episode 70 Episode 70: Adam Dymitruk of Adaptech Solutions Drew's Meetup Picks of the Week DDD/CQRS/ES Practitioners (The Tribe, 68 Water Street, 4th floor) 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM PolyglotVancouver (Unbounce, Suite #400 - 401 W. Georgia St) 6:00 PM Special Guest Adam Dymitruk of Adaptech Solutions Host Drew Ogryzek and special guest Adam Dymitruk, CEO of AdapTech Solutions open the show with a mention of Scott Bellware's Eventide-Project and the upcoming Ruby microservices worksh...

Episode 69: John Richardson of Ethelo

March 27, 2017 07:00 - 23 minutes - 14.9 MB

Episode 69: John Richardson of Ethelo Decisions Intro Host Drew Ogryzek opens the show with more special mentions and giveaways! Scott Bellware presents a Ruby Microservices workshop in Vancouver, April 29th and 30th: Retweet https://goo.gl/dTue29 with @vantechpodcast to be entered into a draw for a free ticket! (Drawing and winner announcement on April 22nd, 2017) There's also an Intro to Virtual Reality Workshop brought to us by Design Lab. Tweet your most pressing VR question, alon...

Episode 68: Koho Goes Live

March 20, 2017 07:00 - 13 minutes - 9.21 MB

Intro Host Drew Ogryzek opens the show with some special mentions and giveaways! Scott Bellware presents a Ruby Microservices workshop in Vancouver, April 29th and 30th: Retweet https://goo.gl/dTue29 with @vantechpodcast to be entered into a draw for a free ticket! There's also an Intro to Virtual Reality Workshop brought to us by Design Lab. Tweet your most pressing VR question, along with http://designlablive.com/vr-workshop @vantechpodcast @deisgnlablive for a chance at a free general...

Episode 67: Graydon Bensler and Matt Visser, Syllabi Learning Solutions

March 13, 2017 07:00 - 22 minutes - 14.9 MB

Episode 67: Intro & Meetups Around Town Host Drew Ogryzek opens the show with our guests Matt Visser and Graydon Bensler, partners in the an education technology SaaS Syllabi Learning Solutions for which Visser and Bensler sent out a demo to a few schools last week. This provided them with some early feedback that allows them to tweak the UI/UX visuals and some of the backend functionality to better meet their end-user's needs. Ogryzek reflects on his week where he finds that treating the...

Episode 66: Alex and Lester, Advisor Websites

March 06, 2017 08:00 - 23 minutes - 21 MB

Episode 66: Alex and Lester from Advisor Websites Intro & Meetups Around Town Drew, Alex and Lester from Advisor Websites speak about onboarding new people, and strategies for evaluting during the 3-month probationary period. Advisor Websites has been growing by about 5-8 people a year for the past several years. One strategy tried was a "team retrospective" applied to a new member of the team, where each other member writes the good and the bad on Post-It™ notes, then review the notes as...

Episode 65: Chad Leaman, Neil Squire Society

February 26, 2017 05:01 - 28 minutes - 20.8 MB

Intro and Meetups Alex and Drew open the show talking about the themes of their past weeks, including communication, interrupting programmers breaking their concentration, project management meetings and red-tape, design sessions, improving processes, when to outsource versus build in-house. Alex is currently reading Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss, and talks about a chapter in it where he interviews Marc Andreesen who says about retrospectives that he suggests never looking back, but rath...

Episode 64: Nikolay Malyarov, PressReader

February 20, 2017 08:00 - 36 minutes - 22.9 MB

Intro & Meetups Around Town Drew and Alex talk about Adaptech Solutions being tech agnostic, and what that means. Drew speaks about the responsibility a software developer has to deliver clean, maintainable code. Alex went to the Women Who Code Vancouver meetup. Drew wanted to go to the Docker Vancouver meetup, but couldn't get an Evo, so he ended up not going at all. Alex will be giving a talk with Adam and Robert of Adaptech Solutions on event sourced project management at Mobify, in a ...

Episode 63: Peter Watkins, BC Developer's Exchange

February 13, 2017 08:00 - 42 minutes - 36 MB

Intro Guest co-host Kim Hansen, CEO of Signl.fm and Drew Ogryzek open the show with some discussions about speak to text, Web RTC, machine learning, tensorflow, IBM's Watson, Go Time transcribed, how games like Katamari Damacy show the human tendency to derive satisfaction from cleaning up, the convenience of Google Now, how CES was all about Amazon's Alexa, and positing that speech to text may revolutionize our communication comparably to how hypertext markup and the world wide web have. ...

Episode 62: Nikolas Badminton

February 06, 2017 16:00 - 27 minutes - 24.1 MB

Episode 62: Nikolas Badminton On this week's podcast Drew talks about hiring incentives at his company. Alex put her node reading on hold and with help from Adaptech Solutions is building an Event Store (stores events for CQRS solutions) using node.js which so far includes creating a basic webserver. She's installed and is learning to use Vimium (Chrome extension) so that she can use keyboard shortcuts to navigate and is learning about http (hyper text transfer protocol) response headers....

Episode 61: Renee Hildebrand

January 30, 2017 08:00 - 27 minutes - 23.1 MB

Episode 61: Renee Hildebrand We're excited to have a special guest host this week, Holly Peck, Director of Women Who Code (Vancouver) who joins us for the interview with Renee! Alex & Drew open the show talking about interviews at Drew's workplace, talentful and The Bike Shed Podcast and discuss Alex's coding progress which you can read more about in her blog. Select meetups around town Alex and Drew attended last week were the Vancouver Tech Meetup which Drew hosted at Beanworks and D...

Episode 60: Rob Bucci of STAT Search Analytics

January 23, 2017 08:00 - 35 minutes - 29.6 MB

Episode 60: Rob Bucci of STAT Analytics Alex & Drew open the show talking about workplace dynamics and whether it's appropriate to use the term "guys". Drew talks about his company's new onboarding process which includes using automating testing and seed data. They discuss Alex's coding progress (tutorials and reading up on Git and node.js) which she talks about further in her blog and meetups around town they attended last week: DDD/CQRS/ES, Code and Coffee and the inaugural Women Who Co...

Episode 59: Annee Ngo of Protohack

January 16, 2017 08:00 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MB

Episode 59: Annee Ngo of Protohack Alex & Drew open the show talking about Alex's progress learning to code which she talks about further in her blog. They discuss meetups they attended the past week and then highlight a few upcoming meetups around town in the Vancouver tech scene. Our guest this week is Annee Ngo of Protohack and PressReader. Protohack activates and supports the start-up community by hosting global events that help people with amazing ideas get mentorship, training, and ...

Episode 58: Holly Peck

January 09, 2017 08:00 - 42 minutes - 27.4 MB

Episode 58: Holly Peck Drew opens the show talking about resolutions and spending more time on front end javascript development, in React during the upcoming Vancouver Tech Meetup with special guest Bryan Clark from Mozilla on January 23rd. Drew then talks about upcoming meetups around town in the Vancouver tech scene. Our guest this week is Holly Peck of Women Who Code Vancouver. You can reach Holly on twitter at @WWCodeVancouver ##Meetups for the week of January 9th ###Monday 9th Van...

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