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The Cynical Developer

A UK based Technology and Software Developer Podcast that helps you to improve your development knowledge and career,
through explaining the latest and greatest in development technology and providing you with what you need to succeed as a developer.

Copyright: © 2019 WhiteFish Creative Ltd

Latest Episodes:

Episode 114 - Well-Architected Web Applications May 13, 2019

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In this episode we are joined by Andrew Kelly, who is here to talk to us about Well-Architected Web Applications.

Andrew is a web developer from Cheshire in the UK, who currently works as a Technical Team Lead.

Andy has been a web developer for over 15 years specialising in .net core and more recently AWS.

He has a passion for everything cloud and will shortly be broadening his experience as a platform engineer.

Contacting Andrew Kelly

website: http://www.andrewkel.ly LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewkellymanchester/ Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/andyk2122

Episode 113 - DJ to Developer Apr 29, 2019

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In this episode we discuss a journey to and from Development, with Paddy Kearns.

Paddy is a Senior .NET Developer based in Nottingham, where he spends his days coding with VB.net, C# Webforms and MVC.

He has been a developer for many years, but took a break in between to follow a music career, and then came back.

Contacting Paddy Kearns

Twitter: https://twitter.com/paddy_kearns LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/patrick-kearns-aa9996ba Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5qJjINlxRbwjQ4aOAcKaRG

Other Helpful links

Commodore 64: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64 VIC 20: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20 C64 sound chip: https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/SID

Episode 112 - GraphQL and Hasura Apr 15, 2019

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In this episode we find out about GraphQL, and here to talk to us is Vladimir Novick

Vladimir is a Developer advocate at hasura.io, a Google Developer Expert, a consultant, a worldwide speaker, a published author, he is host of the 3factorRadio podcast and he also contributes regularly to Open Source Software.

Vladimir brings years of experience within the JavaScript ecosystem and has been coding since the rise of the web, from the time of Netscape Navigator and the "First Browser Wars".

Currently, He works with Web, Mobile, VR, AR, and IoT technologies Vladimir is also an advocate for the use of GraphQL and serverless architectures

Contacting Vladimir Novick

Website: http://vnovick.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/vladimirnovick Medium: https://medium.com/@VladimirNovick Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VladimirNovickDev Github: https://github.com/vnovick

Other Helpful links

Hasura: http://hasura.io Twitter: https://twitter.com/HasuraHQ

Episode 111 - Distributed Monoliths Apr 01, 2019

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In this episode we talk to Iris Classon about Distributed Monoliths and why they could be a better solution for you.

Iris Classon Microsoft MVP, author and speaker, A former clinical dietitian and personal trainer. She is a board member on the .net foundation and mum to 4 month old Loke.

Contacting Iris Classon

Website: http://irisclasson.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/irisclasson Twitter: https://twitter.com/irisclasson

Useful links

.Net Foundation: https://dotnetfoundation.org/ Noda Time: https://nodatime.org/

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Episode 110 - Rolling you own software Mar 18, 2019

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In this episode I will be dicussing a topic which its pretty irritating to say the least, rolling your own solution to a common problem!

Episode 109 - Pivoting as a Developer Mar 04, 2019

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In this episode I wanted to talked about pivoting in your career, and here to talk with us is Zac Braddy.

Contacting Zac Braddy

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZackerTheHacker Github: https://github.com/zacbraddy CV: https://zackerthehacker.com/ Medium: https://medium.com/@zacharybraddy React in motion course: https://www.manning.com/livevideo/react-in-motion

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Episode 108 - Blazor Feb 18, 2019

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In this episode we will be talking about Blazor, Jamie Taylor is hear to explain what all the fuss is about.

Jamie is a full stack .Net developer, with a focus on web cross platform. He lives and works in Leeds in the UK and he has become the go to guy for .Net Core at his workplace.

And as some of you will be aware Jamie came on the podcast back on episode 8 and episode 62 where we talk about .Net Core.

When he came on last time he has started his own podcast, which some of you will undoubtidly enjoy, called The Waffling Taylors which is a gaming podcast,

Since then he has started THE .net core podcast, devotku this is an anime podcast, and more recently the Ask a brit podcast.

Contacting Jamie Taylor

Website: https://www.gaprogman.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/dotNetCoreBlog LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jamie-taylor-57602959 Google+: https://plus.google.com/+JamieGaProgManTaylor GitHub: https://github.com/gaprogman Blog: https://dotnetcore.gaprogman.com

More from Jamie:

.Net Core Podcast: https://dotnetcore.show/ Waffling Taylors podcast: https://www.wafflingtaylors.rocks/ A Journey in .NET Core: https://dotnetcore.gaprogman.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/gaprogman YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTDz8IxVCKPmhLemR9eOLPQ Pokeblazor: https://pokeblazor.azurewebsites.net/

Useful Links

Blazor: https://blazor.net/ Introduction to Blazor: http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2018/02/06/blazor-intro/ Wasm Support: https://caniuse.com/#feat=wasm WHOIS Client Blazor App: https://blazor-whois.azurewebsites.net

Episode 107 - The Future of .Net Feb 04, 2019

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In this episode we have something a little different for you, we are coming to you from NDC { London }, and I am joined by Steve Gordon and Jon Galloway. We will be discussing the current state of .net and it's future.

Useful Links

.NET Foundation: https://dotnetfoundation.org/ .NET Core GIT: https://github.com/dotnet/core .NET Core Getting Started: https://dotnet.github.io/

Download .NET: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download

Blazor: https://blazor.net/

Contacting Steve Gordon

Website: https://www.stevejgordon.co.uk/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/stevejgordon Git: https://github.com/stevejgordon LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-gordon-a6691114/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_rMpypHGP8_J8AAo_bLCmA .Net South East: http://www.dotnetsoutheast.co.uk/

Contacting Jon Galloway

Website: Blog: https://weblogs.asp.net/jongalloway Twitter: https://twitter.com/jongalloway Git: https://github.com/jongalloway Herding Code Podcast: http://herdingcode.com/

Episode 106 - What is Kafka? Dec 10, 2018

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In this episode we talk to Allen Underwood about the distributed streaming platform Kafka, and what exactly it is.

Allen Underwood, is one third of the Coding Blocks podcast, he is a Software Architect and Microsoft MVP. He is a Father to three children, and a husband. Allen loves to build things, both software and in the "real world".

Allen's passions go beyond programming and give him a love for basketball and American football. It's also said that he is just a little obsessed with good audio and computer hardware!

Allen is is also one of the original driving forces behind this podcast coming to lie, so you can thank or blame him for that.

Contacting Allen Underwood

Website: https://www.codingblocks.net/about/#allenunderwood Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allenunderwood Twitter: https://twitter.com/theallenu

Coding Blocks and it's Community

Website: https://www.codingblocks.net Twitter: https://twitter.com/CodingBlocks Slack: https://www.codingblocks.net/slack

Episode 105 - Making Time for Stuff! Nov 26, 2018

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In this episode I will be announcing the winner of the 100th Episode giveaway, and the topic I will be discussing is Making Time for stuff!

There is always one thing I say to people when they tell me they don't have time to do something and that is "If you can't make the time, you don't want it bad enough!"

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