Underserved

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Ep. 009, The higher you are on the pyramid... Oct 21, 2019

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I have known Mark Carbrey for over 20 years, from my first job in the software development industry. One fateful day I asked to audit a class he was teaching and our paths have been intertwined ever since. We have worked together, helped one another with projects, and both learned a lot along the way. Mark has worked leading software development teams and organizations up to the CTO/CIO level, has helped companies improve quality, figuring out how to pass audits, and facilitate acquisitions. Topics include "What is it like having hundreds of people trying to sell to you?" and "Why are security audits becoming harder and more commonplace?"

ISO 27001: Information Security Management https://www.iso.org/isoiec-27001-information-security.html
Cyber Hygiene: https://digitalguardian.com/blog/what-cyber-hygiene-definition-cyber-hygiene-benefits-best-practices-and-more
Yes, it's all about the PowerPoint: https://business.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-learn-powerpoint--cms-29884
Mark on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-carbrey-6a7672/
Tasty Bytes BBQ: http://tastybytesbbq.com

Ep. 008 of Underserved, The geek shall inherit the earth Oct 10, 2019

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Robert "Swifty" Swift (LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-swift-2094774/ ) A.K.A "Nixon" has been a fixture of the Boston geek community for decades. An engineer turned recruiter by day, in his free time Robert has been to most cons, gaming gatherings, LARPs, and D&D sessions in the 617. Robert serves up his top phone, Skype, and in-person interview tips and then shares his off-the-clock experiences, providing an exclusive look into the social underbelly of the Boston tech scene.

Arisia: Boston's Oldest Sci-fi Convention https://arisia.org/
The Ig-Nobel Prizes, Presented by real scientists who run a hobby Magazine the AoIR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_of_Improbable_Research
The Convention Competition to Arisia.org is of course Boskone! https://www.boskone.org/
The Insanely Popular D&D Weekly Live Show "Critical Role" https://critrole.com/
The Matt Mercer effect https://www.geeknative.com/68009/what-is-the-matt-mercer-effect/
The New Popularity of D&D https://tinyurl.com/y2vl5kp9
Paizo's game "Pathfinder" created the first Competitor to D&D ever, https://paizo.com/pathfinder
Types of LARPs https://thelarplife.wordpress.com/2015/06/10/types-of-larps/
Local US "Best" LARP manufacturer https://www.b3is.com/
and his LARP Store near Worcester MA https://larpbox.com/
The SCA https://sca.org/
Gaming Stores in Boston that Swifty goes to: http://www.pandemoniumbooks.com/ https://www.battlegroundgames.com/
And the Adventure Pub, Boardgame café in Arlington, MA https://theadventurepub.com/

EPS NEWS FLASH - Twitch Stream Poker Cheating Scandal - Mike Postle Oct 09, 2019

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Special News Episode - There is a scandal in the Twitch Streaming/Poker world this week. Our guest to help us break down and analyze the news is Mike Breault. You might remember Mike from Episode 007 of Underserved. We go into deep technical detail on the live-streaming poker cheating scandal at the Stones Gambling Hall involving a man named Mike Postle. We talk about how the story broke, the Internet sleuthing that followed, and how programming and various technologies may be involved.

2+2 poker forum https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/mike-postle-cheating-allegations-faq-first-post-1753388/
bb/100 vs VPIP graph https://i.gyazo.com/9640d7665da6f5fbc37ad6c935334fbb.png
Hendon Mob website https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=47805
Phone leaves the rail and Postle becomes a superuser https://youtu.be/qAw9HiSpG9w?t=7249
What is a superuser http://pokerterms.com/superuser.html
Poker streams on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU2mtbH_7p0a4EyavEKMHTA/videos
Pokernews.com interview - Andrew Milner of PokerGFX https://cutt.ly/beiWeIP
Session History
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MCfupw2gOZSDj_qvfL0ndIUsyE_Nx7YLNTKVoQUR_VE/edit#gid=2044248290
Telling the player his cards didn't register https://youtu.be/M6yLN32LpGQ?t=169

Ep. 007 of Underserved, Destined to be a developer Sep 30, 2019

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This week's guest is my friend of nearly 20 years, Mike Breault. Mike on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelkbreault/ Mike and I became fast friends back at Monster.com and have worked together, traveled together, and had a lot of fun times ever since. Mike always knew he wanted to be a software developer, starting in 1976 sending emails from his kitchen with his dad. Yes, 1976. We talk about development history, current events, and a bit about sports gambling and one-day fantasy sports.

People talking into the mouse - IRL, not just Star Trek IV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hShY6xZWVGE
"Cracking the coding interview" - the book http://www.crackingthecodinginterview.com/
Van Eck Phreaking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking
Eight Men Out - movie about The Black Sox https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095082/
"Integrity fees" for sports gambling https://www.legalsportsreport.com/integrity-fee/
Basketball official who bet on games - Tim Donaghy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Donaghy

Episode 006, What about the children? Sep 20, 2019

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This week I talk to my wife Tricia and daughter Caroline to get two different perspectives on kids using social media. If you are a parent and don't know what a Finsta is, or what TikTok/VSCO are, or how monitoring SnapChat / social media works, this is the podcast for you! Social media with kids is a catch 22 - if they are not on it they miss out on a lot of their peer socialization, if they are on it there are at least as many risks and downsides as upsides. We talk about the platforms, usage, abuse, and how to try to get a handle on it as parents (including tools to do so). OurPact - the tool we use ($8/month) for controlling access to apps and screen time. There's a locator app too but Google Maps with location sharing is pretty much the same IMO. https://ourpact.com/ Bark - for monitoring social media, we have not tried it but have heard about it ($9/month). One caveat - SnapChat private messages and private stories are not monitored. The only way to get at those is with jailbreaking or rooting your kids devices, as far as I can tell. https://www.bark.us/ What is a Finsta (Fake-Instagram) https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/finsta/ What is a VSCO girl? https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=VSCO%20GIRL What is TikTok? https://www.tiktok.com/en/ How can kids secretly screenshot SnapChat? https://www.spyzie.com/snapchat/how-to-secretly-screenshot-snapchat.html

No CS degree? No problem! Sep 10, 2019

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Jarrod Taylor is a self-taught software developer. He lives in Florida and works with modern JavaScript frameworks and languages like Ruby, He started out learning programming to help move along an internal project and things catapulted from there. Hear how Jarrod came into the industry the "no CS degree" route and what he's interested in today. Jarrod spends a lot of time at Disney and shares some of his favorite spots. Jarrod on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jarrod-taylor-53900768/ Coding Current favorite editor - Panic Coda 2 https://panic.com/coda/ Spiffy new 5K displays - https://www.amazon.com/LG-Ultrafine-Monitor-5120-Resolution/ Using Sidecar as second display for Mac - https://www.macstories.net/stories/sidecar-in-ios-13-and-macos-catalina-working-seamlessly-between-an-ipad-and-mac/ Using Elixir on the Erlang vm https://elixir-lang.org/ The Nerves Framwork https://nerves-project.org/ The movie pi: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/ Disney Insider tips The new Star Wars park at Disney - https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/destinations/hollywood-studios/star-wars-galaxys-edge/ Chef Art Smith's Homecomin' restaurant - http://www.homecominkitchen.com/ Trader Sam's Grog Grotto Tiki Bar at The Polynesian - https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/dining/polynesian-resort/trader-sams-grog-grotto/ One of the few appreciating cars you'll ever see - The Ford GT 40 from 2004-2005 on Ebay - https://www.ebay.com/b/Ford-Ford-GT/116478/bn_7115875849 Ford vs. Ferrari https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1950186/ The Porsche 917 https://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/a10209689/porsche-917-steve-mcqueen-le-mans-movie-car-for-sale/

Ep. 004 of Underserved, Drafting the varsity team Aug 29, 2019

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This week's guest is Colin Reposa, VP of Resource Management from Syrinx Consulting. Colin's job is to match up technologists with the needs clients have for building teams. It sounds simple on paper but there is a lot to doing it right! Colin talks about the evolution of job boards (and why he rarely uses them nowadays), getting an employer to allow you to work remote, and how contract-to-hire has become more popular and more possible than before. Some tools and topics Colin mentions: LinkedIn Recruiter https://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/recruiter Changes to H1B visas in 2019 https://www.forbes.com/sites/andyjsemotiuk/2019/01/02/recent-changes-to-the-h1b-visa-program-and-what-is-coming-in-2019 What is an RFE? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_For_Evidence A still-relevant article on JS Framework longevity: https://www.bitovi.com/blog/longevity-or-lack-thereof-in-javascript-frameworks The brutal lifecycle of JS frameworks https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/01/11/brutal-lifecycle-javascript-frameworks/

Ep. 003 of Underserved, How Agile are you? Aug 22, 2019

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In Episode 003, Glyn Morgan (Practice Director, AgileNX) talks about modern software development processes. Specifically, what's it like to implement Agile across several companies, where do many organizations stumble, and what are his tips for success? Glyn also talks about early computers in the UK, his unusual status as a Mac user with an Android phone, and immigrating to the US. Glyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/glynm/ Jira Kanban view https://www.atlassian.com/agile/kanban/boards AgileNX https://agilenx.io/ and https://www.facebook.com/pg/SyrinxConsulting/posts/ Making QA a part of your agile process http://www.wirfs-brock.com/PDFs/QA2AQ.pdf

Episode 002 of Underserved, You have to sell to survive Aug 13, 2019

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In the first few companies where I worked there was little fraternization between the sales, product, and development groups. Monster changed that for me, and I found it very interesting to see how sales-centric organizations were run and what made salespeople tick. My guest Matt Berg is one of the top salespeople in the software consulting industry. Matt talks about how he got interested in technology, working with developers and customers, and finding common ground. Matt on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-berg-0b875a20 Which one is the Sega TMNT game that Matt lost? https://www.amazon.com/s?k=tmnt+for+sega+genesis&ref=nb_sb_noss_2 The scoop on keeping a coop: https://thepoultrysite.com/articles/fundamental-rules-to-keeping-backyard-chickens If you are in the tech industry and keep chickens or other livestock, tell us about it! Email us at underserved@syrinx.com or hit me up on Twitter @AndrewGelina https://twitter.com/andrewgelina Matt's most important online sales tool, ZoomInfo: https://www.zoominfo.com/ The scariest distracted driving - People shooting videos while driving: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/alarming-trend-taking-videos-driving-everybody-224451939.html

Episode 001 of Underserved, the podcast for the rest of the technology industry Jul 17, 2019

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In this inaugural episode of Underserved, Andrew explains the motivation for the podcast. He also talks about how he got into programming and answers some frequently asked questions about developer preferences. This show is sponsored by Syrinx, the developer-founded, developer-run software consulting company www.syrinx.com

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Code.org's hour of code: https://hourofcode.com/us

Learning JS: https://www.learn-js.org/

VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/

Android Studio: https://developer.android.com/studio

Sublime Text: https://www.sublimetext.com/

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