The Cynical Developer

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Episode 124 - Kubernetes and Docker Sep 30, 2019

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In this episode we discuss Kubernetes and Docker with Ben Newton.

Ben Newton is a veteran of the IT Operations market, with a two decade career across large and small companies like Loudcloud, BladeLogic, Northrop Grumman, EDS, and BMC. Ben got to do DevOps before DevOps was cool, working with government agencies and major commercial brands to be more agile and move faster.

More recently, Ben spent 5 years in product management at Sumo Logic, and is now running product marketing for Operations Analytics at Sumo Logic.

His latest project, Masters of Data, has let him combine his love of podcasts and music with his love of good conversations.

Contact Ben Neton:

Podcast: http://mastersofdata.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/benoitnewton

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-newton-01b0631/

Other Links:

Kubernetes: https://kubernetes.io/

Docker: https://www.docker.com/

Docker Swarm: https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/

Episode 123 - "20yrs of Pragmatic Programmers Sep 16, 2019

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In this episode we talk to Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas about Pragmatic Programming, and the release of the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Pragmatic Programmer

Contact Andy Hunt:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/PragmaticAndy

Website: https://toolshed.com/

Contact Dave Thomas:

Website: https://pragdave.me/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/pragdave

Other Links:

The Pragmatic Bookshelf: https://pragprog.com

The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition: https://pragprog.com/book/tpp20/the-pragmatic-programmer-20th-anniversary-edition

Episode 122 - What is WebAssembly - WASM? Sep 02, 2019

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In this episode we talk to Guy Royse about Web Assembly (WASM), Blazor, and board games

Contact Guy Royse:

Website: http://guy.dev

Twitter: https://twitter.com/groyse

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/groyse/

GitHub: https://github.com/guyroyse

Other Links:

WebAssembly Website: https://webassembly.org/

MDN WASM Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly

WABT: The WebAssembly Binary Toolkit: https://github.com/webassembly/wabt

Episode 121 - The 3 Second Developer Rule Aug 19, 2019

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In this episode I wanted to talk about getting stuff done, and in particular one of the methods I use to keep going.

If you're a regular listener you will know I don't do down time, I'm constantly doing something, I have to keep myself busy or I get bored. I'm always chasing something, trying to learn something new or building something.

Episode 120 - Effective Developers Aug 05, 2019

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In this episode we are joined by Jamie Taylor of the .Net Core Podcast, and Paul Seal from CodeShare.co.uk

We're here to discuss being a better, more effective developer, and what makes you a bad developer.

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Static code analyzers allow you to find bugs in source code at the development stage. This helps to reduce the price of fixing them.

PVS-Studio performs code analysis and issues warnings on the fragments of code with a high probability of having bugs and potential vulnerabilities in them.

The tool supports C, C++, C# and Java, and it can work with Visual C++, GCC, Clang compilers, and some of those for embedded systems.

The analyzer works on Windows, Linux and macOS.

PVS-Studio can both be used as a stand-alone tool and also integrated with Visual Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, or SonarQube.

In the show notes, you can find links to the PVS-Studio website and the article ‘Technologies used in the PVS-Studio code analyzer for finding bugs and potential vulnerabilities’.

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Website: https://cynical.dev/pvs-studio

Blog: https://cynical.dev/pvs-studio-blog

Contact Jamie Taylor:

Website: https://www.gaprogman.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/dotNetCoreBlog

LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jamie-taylor-57602959

GitHub: https://github.com/gaprogman

Blog: https://dotnetcore.gaprogman.com

Contact Paul Seal:

Website: http://www.codeshare.co.uk/

Twitter: http://www.codeshare.co.uk/twitter

LinkedIn: http://www.codeshare.co.uk/linkedin

Google+: http://www.codeshare.co.uk/google

Facebook: http://www.codeshare.co.uk/facebook

Living coding: http://www.codeshare.co.uk/livecoding

Youtube: http://www.codeshare.co.uk/youtube

Episode 119 - Sketch Notes Jul 22, 2019

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Contact Ian Johnson:

Website: https://blog.ninjaferret.co.uk/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/IJohnson_TNF

Blog: https://blog.ninjaferret.co.uk/2017/06/07/sketch-notes.html

Other Links:

Abstractions Conference: https://abstractions.io

Eva-Lotta Lamm - Twitter: https://twitter.com/evalottchen

Mike Rohde - Twitter: https://twitter.com/rohdesign

Other Resources

The Sketchnote Handbook: the illustrated guide to visual note taking: https://amzn.to/2O7oytr

The Sketchnote Workbook: Advanced techniques for taking visual notes you can use anywhere: https://amzn.to/2JRyv8S

Bikablo: https://amzn.to/2XRQlSZ

Bikablo 2.0: https://amzn.to/2Y4AE63

After this episode record I head out and bought some resources to give Sketch Notes a go, I'll be posting to twitter some of my results, but in the mean time, these are the resources I bought to give Sketch Notes a go.

Black Pens:

Staedtler Pigment Liner: https://amzn.to/30KcaRq

Coloured Pens:

Winsor & Newton ProMarker, Pastel Tones: https://amzn.to/2LA7FFl

Winsor & Newton ProMarker, Neutral Tones: https://amzn.to/2XSh9Cx

Winsor & Newton Water Colour Marker - Multi-Coloured: https://amzn.to/2JY8kxl

Episode 118 - Developer Conferences Jul 08, 2019

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In this episode we talk about Developer Conferences with Sarah Withee.

Sarah is a polyglot software engineer who loves the intersection of where people and technology meet, she is also an avid hardware and robot tinkerer located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the USA.

Sarah is also a public speaker, who has captivated audiences with both popular and powerful technical and anecdotal talks.

Her talents extend to teaching and mentoring, giving workshops to teach programming and hardware building to women in tech, as well as to students of all ages.

Sarah has mentored middle and high school robotics teams to world championships (as well as built and programmed a few robots of her own).

And because that isn't enough to keep her busy, Sarah has even co-organized six conferences and is the Director of Programming for the Abstractions conference.

Contact Sarah Withee:

Website: https://geekygirlsarah.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/geekygirlsarah

Github: https://github.com/geekygirlsarah

Instgram: https://instagram.com/geekygirlsarah

Twitch: https://twitch.tv/geekygirlsarah

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sarahwithee

Other Links:

Abstractions Conference: https://abstractions.io

Episode 117 - Welder to Web Developer Jun 24, 2019

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In this episode we talk to Richie Coss about changing careers from welder to a web developer.

Richie trained as a fabricator and worked in that profession for a decade before finding his true passion as a front end developer.

His interest in front end leans heavily towards the UI/CSS side of the discipline.

For the past 18 months he has worked in the North West of the UK as a Front End contractor. Previously to this he worked as a permanent front end developer for agencies in Manchester and Liverpool.

Contacting Richie Coss:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/frontendzzzguy

Codepen: https://codepen.io/frontendzzzguy/

Episode 116 - Everything I wish I knew as newbie developer Jun 10, 2019

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This episode was recorded live at the Chester Devs - Junior Developer Event in Chester, United Kingdom.

If you would like the Cynical Developer to speak at your local meetup, then get in touch and we'll see what we can do.

More about Chester Devs:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChesterDevs

Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Chester-Devs/

Github: https://github.com/ChesterDevs

Episode 115 - Games Development with MonoGame May 27, 2019