
Episode 264: What If You Were The Boss?
01/18/24 • 43 min
Host(s):
- Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker
Guest:
- Ward Bell @WardBell
Recording date: 12/07/2023
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Timejumps
- 00:30 Welcome
- 01:22 When Ward changed from consultant to owner manager?
- 08:36 Sponsor: Ag Grid
- 09:40 What's an example of an excuse developers give?
- 12:34 How do you interpret answers to the problem you're trying to solve?
- 16:22 Meet the user
- 20:51 Break down the problem and chip away at it
- 24:17 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
- 25:20 How does a developer have time for it all?
- 40:04 Final thoughts
Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.
Host(s):
- Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker
Guest:
- Ward Bell @WardBell
Recording date: 12/07/2023
Brought to you by
Timejumps
- 00:30 Welcome
- 01:22 When Ward changed from consultant to owner manager?
- 08:36 Sponsor: Ag Grid
- 09:40 What's an example of an excuse developers give?
- 12:34 How do you interpret answers to the problem you're trying to solve?
- 16:22 Meet the user
- 20:51 Break down the problem and chip away at it
- 24:17 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
- 25:20 How does a developer have time for it all?
- 40:04 Final thoughts
Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.
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Episode 263: Stories Every Developer Can Relate To
Host(s):
- John Papa @John_Papa
- Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker
Guest:
- Chris Woodruff @cwoodruff
Recording date: Nov 30, 2023
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Resources:
- The Microsoft MVP program
- ASP Insiders
- Learning the Entity Framework
- .NET 8
- Efficient querying with Entity Framework
- Video showing how to use GitHub Copilot with Entity Framework
- The Scotty Principle
- Using the Scotty principle to Crush your To-Do List
- Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach
- Strange New Worlds: Star Trek
- Chris Woodruff on GitHub
Timejumps
- 00:26 Welcome
- 01:05 Introducing Chris Woodruff
- 02:34 What is a Microsoft MVP?
- 06:03 Sponsor: Ag Grid
- 07:09 Learning how to be a data detective
- 17:12 Learning the Scotty Principle
- 23:12 Sponsor: Ideablade
- 24:15 Dealing with uncertainty in projects
- 29:14 Final thoughts
Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.
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Episode 265: 2023 in Review
Host(s):
- John Papa @John_Papa
- Ward Bell @WardBell
- Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker
Recording date: Dec 14, 2023
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Resources:
- ChatGPT released
- Bing Image generation
- AI Hallucination
- Responsible AI
- Great Ezra Klein podcast on the state of AI in 2023 and where it is going
- GitHub Copilot
- Is Scrum dead?
- Zeitgeist
- Why use a web framework
- Bargaining for our very existence
- Why hasn’t TDD Taken Over the World?” - by Dave Farley
Timejumps
- 00:27 Welcome
- 02:08 AI had a big coming out
- 10:30 Ways to deal with hallucinations
- 14:00 Sponsor: Ag Grid
- 15:01 Growing discontent with testing
- 19:37 What processes do we need to challenge?
- 23:19 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
- 24:17 The job market
- 29:54 Where's crypto and blockchains?
- 31:47 In person conferences
- 35:33 Are we moving back to the office?
- 39:48 Final thoughts
Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.
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