ZADevChat Podcast
69 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 6 years ago -A weekly panel discussion with topics around the South African software developer community.
Regular panelists are Len Weincier, Kenneth Kalmer and Kevin McKelvin.
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Episodes
70 - BSides Cape Town & infosec with Grant Ongers & Mike Davis
November 21, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 59.2 MBChantal and Kenneth talk to Grant Ongers and Mike Davis about infosec and the local BSides conference in Cape Town.Grant and Mike are part of the organizing team behind BSides in Cape Town, and both love working in the infosec space. BSides here is based on, and supported by, the BSides conference in Las Vegas. BSides originated as a community event in Las Vegas and has been running for many years. It happens close to the popular Defcon conference.BSides CT is looking to be a great event, wit...
73 - Let's Test with Louise Perold
September 13, 2017 00:00 - 47 minutes - 44.2 MBWe chat to Louise Perold about testing as a means to improve the overall quality of software, and the upcoming Let's Test conferenceKenneth & Len chat to Louise Perold about the art & practice of software testing. Louise reframes testing in a wonderful light, and how testers compliment and support the existing software development efforts. There are many things that simply cannot be tested reliably with automated techniques, and we explore why.Louise has been helping teams write better softwa...
72 - Ladies that UX with Inez, Ridhwana & Lara
August 31, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 67 MBWe chat to Inez, Ridhwana & Lara about the Ladies that UX communities in Cape Town, and as of today Johannesburg.Chantal, Kenneth & Kevin are joined by the dynamic trio of Inez Patel, Ridhwana Khan & Lara Pietersen to talk about UX and the local Ladies that UX meetups in Cape Town and now Johannesburg.User Experience (UX) is an integral part of design, be it in the physical world or the digital world. It is the practice of putting the user first, creating empathy for the users of your systems...
71 - Is Intelligence an Algorithm? With Jade Abbott
August 30, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 65.7 MBWe chat to Jade Abbott from Retro Rabbit about artificial intelligence, broadly and more specifically about NLP and what that means for us.Chantal, Kenneth & Len talk to Jade about natural language processing, commonly referred to as NLP. What does it take to get a machine to understand what we're saying as people?Jade has always had a fascination with smart machines, from trying to build robots in school and now teaching machines to understand what we're saying. Jade takes a fairly complex t...
69 - Pink-IT with Ruddy Riba
August 29, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 71.1 MBWe talk to Ruddy Riba about her career as a women in tech, and Pink-IT and what they are doing to help women in tech find a supportive community and grow their networks.Chantal, Kenneth & Len talk to Ruddy about some of the challenges woman in technology face, and what she and her partners in Pink-IT are doing to help get women into tech.Ruddy shares with us the story of growing up far from Johannesburg, getting into university and seeing the immense drop-off rate of young women in just the f...
67 - The Imposter Within With Clarice Bouwer
August 28, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBWe talk to Clarice Bouwer about imposter syndrome, what it is and how to overcome it. Join us as we learn about this and other issues around the often overlooked topics of mental well-being.Chantal & Kenneth talk to Clarice Bouwer. Clarice started the Corporate Programmer blog as a survival guide for her work in a big corporate environment, and has written over 50 great posts. It turns out surviving in a big corporate is all out people & relationships!Inspired by Scott Hanselman's "I'm a phon...
62 - Data Of All Shapes & Sizes With Gail Shaw
August 24, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 95.4 MBWe talk to Gail Shaw about data, in all its shapes and sizes. Gail is a 10 year Microsoft MVP, and has tamed many a database in her career and shares some great insights with us.Chantal, Kenneth & Len talk data with Gail Shaw. From Gail's first 8086 PC, dual majoring in physics & computer science and printed Oracle error codes we join Gail on her journey into the realm SQL Server and how she's conquered it.We get some advice for squeezing a little more performance out of your production datab...
61 - Provencial wifi & Docker in production with Tim Haak
August 09, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBWe talk to Tim Haak about playing with wifi networks covering large parts of Gauteng, and running Docker in production, and how to sanely get started with conquering containers.Kenneth & Kevin chat to Tim about Docker, what it is, how its evolving and how to sanely start packaging your apps in containers for shipping.Heads up! There were some audio syncing issues during post production, but the content is still great! Also, this show was recorded in 2016 and the content held up quite nicely!C...
60 - Software, embeddables & biltong with Lance Gleason
June 28, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 58 MBWe talk to Lance Gleason of Polyglot Programming about the software, embeddable devices, biltong and how the local community stacks up against the rest of the world.Chantal, Kenneth & Kevin chat to Lance about his involvement with the South African tech community. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Lance has definitely made a name for himself in various local communities as a very involved member and connector. It was thanks to Lance that we met and invited Rebecca Franks for [episode 39](/39/), and ...
59 - Morgan 3D Printers with Quentin Harley
May 17, 2017 09:00 - 58 minutes - 49 MBWe talk to Quentin Harley, the "crazy inventor" behind the locally built Morgan 3D PrintersThis episode is brought to you by OfferZen, a South African recruitment startup for developers. OfferZen inverts the normal recruitment process. Instead of applying for jobs, 350 tech companies in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria, send developers interview requests with upfront salary info. For developers it’s completely free to signup and use. In fact, you get R5000 if you take a job through them....
58 - Kevin Trethewey on building Driven Alliance
May 10, 2017 09:08 - 1 hour - 51.9 MBWe talk to Kevin Trethewey about his history and building up Driven Alliance and putting people before technology.This episode is brought to you by OfferZen, a South African recruitment startup for developers. OfferZen inverts the normal recruitment process. Instead of applying for jobs, 350 tech companies in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria, send developers interview requests with upfront salary info. For developers it’s completely free to signup and use. In fact, you get R5000 if you t...
57.5 - Devconf 2017
April 04, 2017 22:13 - 48 minutes - 42.8 MBLive from DevConf 2017! Four conversations on the day.This episode is brought to you by OfferZen, a South African recruitment startup for developers. OfferZen inverts the normal recruitment process. Instead of applying for jobs, 350 tech companies in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria, send developers interview requests with upfront salary info. For developers it’s completely free to signup and use. In fact, you get R5000 if you take a job through them. Visit offerzen.com to sign up.Kennet...
57 - PyCon ZA with Simon Cross, Neil Muller & David Sharpe
March 29, 2017 15:55 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBWe venture out into Python country only to discover a healthy, diverse and growing community.This episode is brought to you by OfferZen, a South African recruitment startup for developers. OfferZen inverts the normal recruitment process. Instead of applying for jobs, 350 tech companies in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria, send developers interview requests with upfront salary info. For developers it’s completely free to signup and use. In fact, you get R5000 if you take a job through the...
Episode 56 - After-dark banter with Simon Stewart
October 05, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 41 MBFrom the importance of pet projects to organizing conferences, come join us as we learn a metric ton from a friend of many developers.Chantal, Kenneth, Kevin & Len are joined by Simon Stewart for a journey through his career as a developer. Simon is a respected and loved figure in many tech communities and arguably best known for organizing the fantastic [JSinSA](http://jsinsa.com) conference.How did Simon get here? We start at beginning in Cape Town, travel to Port Elizabeth, jump to Durban ...
Episode 55 - Machine Learning with Guillaume Belrose
September 28, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.1 MBWhat can we teach machines? And what can they teach us?Chantal, Kenneth & Len are joined by Guillaume Belrose to chat broadly about machine learning. Guillaume is currently living in Johannesburg, but hails from the Caribbean. After having studied in France he went onto an internship at HP in Bristol, before moving to Durban and finally up to the city of gold. Guillaume is very involved in the community, being a regular attendee at meetups and having presented at local conferences like Devcon...
Episode 54 - Trail Running with Armand Du Plessis
September 15, 2016 00:00 - 55 minutes - 33.7 MBJoin us for a walk down memory lane as we retrace the start of the Ruby community in Johannesburg and end up on the trails of the Aosta Valley.Kenneth & Kevin chat with Armand du Plessis, a long-time Rubyist about his journey from classic ASP to being the CTO of Hornet. We get a small glimpse into life before .net and building applications for Symbian, and a whirlwind tour of building various systems in the mobile money space.Armand has always been a keen early adopter, building an OpenID bri...
Episode 53 - Segfault E_TOO_MUCH_COMPUTE
September 07, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 45.5 MBIn this age of containers and virtualization, are we losing touch with hardware and the raw performance available to us?Kenneth chats to Kevin & Len about our current understanding of hardware performance and if it matters in this age of containers and virtualization.Spawned by an article on Non-uniform Memory Access in modern multi-CPU architectures, Kenneth realizes that it has been years since he racked up a server or cared about the bare metal at all. How disconnected has he become in the...
Episode 52 - A Series of Long Conversations with Mike Hewitson
August 10, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 33.6 MBThinking of a bootcamp as "a series of long conversations" and other gems from teaching software craftsmanship.Kenneth & Len are joined by Mike Hewitson for a talk on the developer bootcamps that Mike helps to facilitate at Investec.Mike shares with us his journey from the army, to the railways, and how he got onto the financial services line. He has had several stops along the way in various insurers and supporting businesses, with some great stories from each stop along the way.One of the m...
Episode 51 - Who still needs a tester? With Janco Wolmarans and Oz Chihwayi
July 28, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 45.8 MBWe reach over the proverbial cubicle wall and chat with the testers!Kenneth, Kevin & Len are joined by Janco Wolmarans and Oz Chihwayi to talk about their experiences of having software testers integrated into a multi-functional software delivery team.Oz shares with us how he went from running batch processes during the graveyard shift to become a software tester and a key member of his team. Janco tells us the most difficult thing he's done in his career is choose a title on LinkedIn!The ide...
Episode 50 - Frolicking Down Memory Lane with Steven McDonald and Pieter Germishuys
July 20, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 47 MBWe turn 50!Frolicking (verb) - to gambol merrily; to play in a frisky, light-spirited manner. From the Dutch, vrolijk.Kenneth, Kevin & Len are joined by former panelists Steven McDonald and Pieter Germishuys for a look back at the origin of the podcast, the past 50 episodes and the future of our founding team.From the humble beginnings of just "recording our frequent Skype calls", Steven & Pieter recount the early days of the podcast and the pain of recording Skype calls. Each panelist shared...
Episode 49 - Segfault E_POOR_DEVELOPMENT_PRACTICES
July 15, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 44.1 MBWhat poor development practices get under your skin?In the episode Kenneth, Kevin & Len unpack a few poor software development practices that they've seen over and over again.More or less in order they tackled long-lived branches in version control, having too many automated tests, being too reliant on your IDE, copying the first answer from StackOverflow and not questioning enough.Each topic yielded some interesting insights and counterpoints! We hope you enjoy the episode and would love to ...
Episode 48 - Datomic with Robert Stuttaford
July 06, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 50.8 MBWhat happens when your database is part of your application?Kenneth & Len are joined once again by Robert Stuttaford from Cognician to talk about Datomic. According to the Datomic website, Datomic is a distributed database designed to enable scalable, flexible and intelligent applications, running on next-generation cloud architectures.Robert shares with us how Datomic became a natural choice for them after switch to Clojure. Before Clojure, ClojureScript and Datomic their site was written in...
Episode 47 - React and Redux through a fresh pair of eyes with Taariq Isaacs
June 30, 2016 00:00 - 53 minutes - 35.2 MBJoin us for a tale of conquering software development as we follow one young star on his journey to taming React.Tonight Kenneth, Kevin & Len are joined by Taariq Isaacs to talk about his journey as a software developer and how he tamed React. Taariq started off his journey at CPUT in their Mechatronics course, a branch of electrical engineering. Not satisfied he started teaching himself through Code Academy and quickly started at codeX where he discovered the joys of programming. One of the ...
Episode 46 - Prolific Idea with Rishal Hurbans
June 22, 2016 00:00 - 54 minutes - 36.2 MBWe're joined again by Rishal Hurbans to chat about his Prolific Idea initiative, how it came to be, what it currently does and where it's going.We talk about the X-Prize Learning Challenge and the importance of letting kids learn while they're having fun. Kevin and Kenneth reminisce about Sesame Street, Cartoon Network and learning numeracy in computer labs in primary school. Participating in the X-Prize was what lead Rishal to formalise Prolific Idea into a business.The weekly Code Offs that...
Episode 45 - Angular 2 with Mike Geyser
June 16, 2016 00:00 - 49 minutes - 39.2 MBJoin us as we look into our crystal ball to see what is coming in the next major release of the popular Angular framework.Kenneth & Len are joined by Mike Geyser from BBD to talk about the upcoming Angular 2 release. Mike has been a web developer for many years, having uploaded websites to Geocities back in the day! The web has changed a lot since the good old days of "single page websites" and "under construction" GIF's, and in this show we look at Angular 2.This major new version has stirre...
Episode 44 - Accessibility with Steve Barnett & Justin Slack
June 08, 2016 00:00 - 52 minutes - 71.5 MBTaking a hard look at accessibility and learning about the principles of inclusive design.Kenneth & Len are joined by Steve Barnett and Justin Slack to talk about building accessible frontends. We quickly learn that building an accessible website doesn't always mean catering for people with permanent disabilities. We learn about inclusive design as well, thinking about temporary impedances to using websites, color blindness and even catering for slow internet connections and HTML email.Steve ...
Episode 43 - Entelect Challenge
June 01, 2016 00:00 - 44 minutes - 60.6 MBShall we play a game? We dive into artificial intelligence and bots, and their battle for the the ultimate prize.Kenneth & Kevin are joined by Tomislav Ravic, Rishal Hurbans & Hennie Brink from Entelect to talk about the Entelect Challenge and artificial intelligence. The Entelect Challenge is the annual AI vs AI bot challenge. Players can win their share of R200,000 in prize money whilst having fun learning about AI and writing their own bots.We talk about the goals of the challenge, the his...
Episode 42 - HyperionDev & the CSA with Riaz Moola
May 25, 2016 00:00 - 31 minutes - 24 MBWe're having another chat about computing education in the country, this time with a special guest from Durban who is looking to help change the country for the better.Kenneth & Kevin are joined by Riaz Moola from HyperionDev and the Computer Science Association of South Africa (CSASA) to talk about teaching programming online. Riaz is an accomplished young man, sporting two international masters degrees and the leadership skills to tackle the thorny issue of improving the education in the co...
Episode 41 - Infrastructure As Code with Charlene Tshitoka
May 18, 2016 00:00 - 54 minutes - 37.1 MBDoes infrastructure as code pave the way for repeatable, reliable, consistent and testable infrastructure? Join us as we found out.Kenneth, Kevin & Len are joined by Charlene Tshitoka from ThoughtWorks for a talk about infrastructure as code. Charlene has often gravitated towards the infrastructure of software projects, and after having worked on a distributed devops project she was propelled head first into thinking about infrastructure as code and how that can be leveraged to build more rel...
Episode 40 - The Swift Programming Language with Simon Stewart
May 04, 2016 00:00 - 55 minutes - 37.8 MBKevin and Len are joined by Simon Stewart to discuss the Swift programming language from Apple. Swift is a modern object oriented programming language intended to supersede Objective-C as the standard language in an Apple developer's toolbox.We talk about some of the quirks in Apple's developer ecosystem before unpacking some of the interesting language features Swift has to offer. We discuss topics such as tuples, pattern matching, generics, error handling and semicolons. There has also been...
Episode 39 - Android with Rebecca Franks
April 27, 2016 00:00 - 57 minutes - 41.5 MBKenneth, Kevin and Len are joined by Rebecca Franks to discuss the world of mobile development for Android, Google's developer platform and her recent Google Developer Expert accolade.We take a dive into all things Android, starting with the Play Store and the impact that's made on the app ecosystem before going into the more technical details of building and testing Android apps and the tooling behind it. We speak through some of the nuances of building against Android's APIs and look at alt...
Episode 38 - Testing with Joshua Lewis
April 20, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBWe tackle the testy topic of automated testing in the life of software projects.Kenneth & Len are joined by Joshua Lewis from nReality (formerly of the JCSE) about the ins and outs of automated testing. We tear through artificial boundaries to unpack the value of testing, as well as potential pitfalls. There are many different testing tools and styles available, and choosing the right approach can be difficult. We even learned about some new terms, and possibly what we've been calling "testin...
Episode 37 - Data Visualization with Jeff Fletcher
April 13, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 44.2 MBWe tackle data visualization in its full technicolor glory!Kenneth, Kevin & Len are joined by Jeff Fletcher from IS Research & Innovation to talk about data visualization. Jeff has been working in the internet business for quite some time, from JINX to Telkom, Antfarm to IS, UUNet to 365 and finally back to R&I at Internet Solutions. We met Jeff a few years ago at Jozi.rb where he gave a D3 talk that blew everyone away. Since then Jeff has studied the art of successful data visualization and ...
Episode 36 - Sisonke Rising with Mandla Magagula and Theo Bohnen
April 06, 2016 00:00 - 50 minutes - 33.6 MBIn this weeks episode we share the inspirational story of two developers that have devoted themselves to teaching the disadvantaged youth of two prominent townships, Diepsloot and Olievenhoutbosch, to program.We chat to Theo Bohnen (https://twitter.com/tbohnenjnr) and Mandla Magagula (https://twitter.com/mandlamag) about their Sisonke Rising initiative. Sisonke Rising an impact and value driven community outreach programme that focuses on teaching young people life skills through the vehicle ...
Episode 35 - Kubernetes and Migrating Clouds
March 30, 2016 00:00 - 53 minutes - 31.8 MBIn this episode Kenneth turns the table on Kevin and chats about a recent successful migration between clouds and architectures.Kevin and his team at Platform45 recently migrated a well established application (www.resourceguruapp.com) from AWS and EngineYard to Google Container Engine. This was a non-trivial migration from a managed platform and a collection of third-party services to a containerised deployment with minimal external dependencies. We talked about the challenges they faced (tu...
Episode 34 - Live From DevConf 2016
March 23, 2016 00:00 - 52 minutes - 36.7 MBThe ZADevChat crew attended the inaugural installation of DevConf recently and recorded some of the action for our listeners. This episode is made up of live recordings throughout the day as we caught up with attendees, speakers and the conference organisers.If you want to hear more of the backstory to DevConf, pick up Episode 23 where we spoke to Rob MacLean, one of DevConf's organisers.* DevConf - http://www.devconf.co.za/* Episode 23 - https://soundcloud.com/zadevchat/episode-23-devconf-wi...
Episode 33 - Web Frontend Performance with Mannuel Ferreira
March 15, 2016 22:41 - 1 hour - 44.4 MBWe're getting up to speed with the fascinating world of web frontend performance. Concatenation, compression, optimization and more delivered in one speedy package this week!Kenneth, Kevin & Len are joined by Mannuel Ferreira, a web designer and developer from Superbalist.com. Mannuel shares with us some practical experiences he's had at his current job making Superbalist fast, as well as the work he did at World Wide Creative on a recent relaunch of the IOL website. Mannuel has a lot to shar...
Episode 32 - PHP with Etienne Marais
March 10, 2016 23:30 - 51 minutes - 36.5 MBWe get to work understanding the world of PHP, that scripting language that runs the vast majority of the internet. Is it more than just Wordpress? Join us as we find out!Kevin & Len are joined by Etienne Marais, a senior PHP developer at Superbalist. Before moving to Cape Town, we met Etienne at the Johannesburg Laravel User meetup that he was organizing. Etienne points us to the TIOBE index, Netcraft's survey and Venturebeat's analysis of popular languages on GitHub, consistently showing PH...
Episode 31 - PolarbearJS and 12Factor Apps with Ben Janecke
March 02, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 47.7 MBJoin us as we explore 12 Factor applications and the Polarbear JavaScript scaffold.Kenneth & Kevin chat to Ben Janecke about his Polarbear scaffold for generating 12 Factor applications using node. The scaffold provides users with a React frontend (with server rendering to boot!) and an Express API. We spend a decent amount of time chatting about our different understandings of the 12 Factor principles and how we've used it over the years since being exposed to it by Heroku, and how it influe...
Episode 30 - Segfault February
February 24, 2016 00:00 - 49 minutes - 36.7 MBKenneth and Kevin have the first of our Segfault instalments, a monthly banter about things that we find noteworthy but that might not fill an episode (yet).Here are the links to the (majority of the) topics we covered:* Rubyfuza 2016 - http://www.rubyfuza.org/* DevConf ZA 2016, covered on #23 - http://www.devconf.co.za* Go 1.6 release, specifically transparent HTTP/2 support in net/http - https://golang.org/doc/go1.6#http2* Rust 1.6 release, specifically Crates.io not allowing wildcards in d...
Episode 29 - The Spine Model with Danie Roux and Kevin Trethewey
February 17, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 51.4 MBWe get to work to make sense of a sensemaking framework for human work systems, and learn how to build stronger teams with better communication.Kenneth & Kevin are joined by Danie Roux (@danieroux) & Kevin Trethewey (@KevinTrethewey) to chat about their Spine model, a sensemaking framework for human systems. Danie & Kevin are both involved in doing consulting work, and have distilled the Spine model from their experience helping teams in various companies. Having its roots in Extreme Programm...
Episode 28 - Hardware Hacking At House4Hack with Toby Kurien
February 10, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 50 MBWe cross borders into the world of physical computing to chat about hardware hacking at House4Hack.Kenneth, Kevin & Len are joined by Toby Kurien (@TobyKurien), one of the early founders of House4Hack, a maker space in Centurion, and chat about Raspberry PI, Arduino, hacking telescopes, sub-orbital flight (ok, not really), home automation and lots more. House4Hack is an open space dedicated to providing enthusiasts with a community and space where they can build physical computing projects an...
Episode 27 - Clojure with Robert Stuttaford
February 03, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 53.2 MBJoin us as we explore Clojure, the robust, practical and fast programming language.Kenneth, Kevin & Len talk to Robert Stuttaford (@RobStuttaford), co-founder and CTO of Cognician, about the Clojure programming language and his experience using it for the last few years. We discuss the language itself as well as some tools. We sing the praises of Rich Hickey, even if it just for his great talks, and stroll around the ecosystem including the obligatory stop at Datomic.Robert really did a great...
Episode 26 - Open Data And Civic Hacking with Jason Norwood-Young
January 27, 2016 00:00 - 52 minutes - 37.6 MBIn this episode we explore the local world of open data and civic hacking.Kenneth, Kevin and Len are joined by Jason Norwood-Young (@j_norwood_young) from Code4SA (@Code4SA). Jason was a tech journalist in a previous life and "converted to the dark side" to become a developer. He's currently working with Code4SA on various open data and civic hacking initiatives and took us for a whirlwind tour of the space.We touch on a range of topics, from acquiring data from government and civil society, ...
Episode 25 - Indie Game Development with Ben Myres and Sean Goncalves
January 20, 2016 00:00 - 46 minutes - 33 MBIn this episode we explore the world of indie game development.Kenneth and Kevin are joined by Sean Goncalves (@The_Son_of_Wolf) and Ben Myres (@_benjamming) from Nyamakop (@_Nyamakop), makers of independent games in Braamfontein, Johannesburg.We touch on the difference between "AAA" and "indie" games, tools of the trade, the experiences of releasing a game, and how accurate the Indie Game movie is.Ben & Sean share their experiences and observations and offers a ton of great insights and advi...
Episode 24 - The Rust Programming Language
January 13, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 44.3 MBIn this episode we turn the spotlight on the Rust programming language.Kevin has been dabbling with it recently and shares his experience of exploring what Rust has to offer."Rust is a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety" - rust-lang.org Len and Kevin pick apart some of language features, the type system, memory safety, thread safety, platforms and its steeper learning curve. We make plenty of casual comparisons between diffe...
Episode 23 - Devconf ZA with Rob Maclean
January 06, 2016 00:00 - 39 minutes - 31.8 MBKevin, Len & Kenneth chat to Robert Maclean (https://twitter.com/rmaclean) about the first DevConf ZA (http://www.devconf.co.za) happening on the 8th of March 2016 at the Riversands Conference Venue in Johannesburg.Important dates:Mid-January 2016 - Ticket Sales Open18 January - CFP closes8 March - Conference dayThis one day multi-track conference aims to help developers skill up in their respective focus areas, with a strong focus on local presenters sharing knowledge with their local audien...
Episode 22 - Season's Greetings
December 16, 2015 00:00 - 1 minute - 2.63 MBSeasons greetings from Kenneth, Kevin & Len!Thanks for all the support in 2015. Enjoy the break and spending time with loved ones, travel safe!We'll be back early in the new year!"Christmas Rap" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 21 - Ansible, DevOps And Automation
December 09, 2015 00:00 - 1 hour - 49.9 MBKevin, Len and Kenneth speak to Andre Sachs and Gabriel Fortuna about using Ansible for automation, and the broader world of devops.Pick list:AndreSysadmin Advent - http://sysadvent.blogspot.co.za/GabrielLet's Encrypt - https://letsencrypt.orgKennethUlysses App - http://ulyssesapp.com/SE Radio episode on Continuous Delivery - www.se-radio.net/2015/02/episode-221-jez-humble-on-continuous-delivery/KevinWeeChat IRC Client - https://weechat.org/Let's Encrypt - https://letsencrypt.orgLenRundeck - ...
Episode 20 - Buildstuff.lt with Pieter Germishuys
December 02, 2015 00:00 - 1 hour - 47.7 MBLen, Kenneth and Kevin discuss Pieter's experience at the Build Stuff conference in Lithuania and incentives for attending overseas developer conferencesPicks list:KevinAtom - https://atom.io/Rubyfuza 2016 - http://www.rubyfuza.org/Kennethetcd - https://github.com/coreos/etcdLen99 Bottles of Beer - http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/PieterBuildstuff conference - http://buildstuff.lt/Babun shell - http://babun.github.io/Terraform - https://github.com/hashicorp/terraformPacker - http://packer.io...