Herding Code

Kevin and Jon talk to Shawn Wildermuth about his new documentary film, Hello World. Shawn talks about how this film project began as a “love letter to software development,” exploring how amazing this career can be. As he delved into it he became more aware of the lack representation of women and people of color … Continue reading "Herding Code 243: Shawn Wildermuth on his new film, Hello World"

Does time still exist? Maybe! Kevin, Rob, and Jon chat about some of the top concerns of our current time: Sourdough bread WordPress and PHP No Code development Knock knock jokes Download / Listen: Herding Code 242: The COVID Cabin Fever Transcript: Jon: [00:00:07] And hello, welcome to Herding Code. It is July 31, 2020 … Continue reading "Herding Code 242: The COVID Cabin Fever"

Recently Jon switched to developing on macOS, and Rob's been developing on Windows. It's time for the Freaky Friday edition! The guys compare notes, what they like, what's confusing, and what they've learned.

Download / Listen: Herding Code 240: Phil Haack on Working from Home Jon, Kevin, and Rob talk to Phil Haack about working from home. Transcript: Note: We’re new at this. Should we publish an SRT file? WEBVTT? Jon: [00:00:00] Welcome to Herding Code. This episode is being recorded March 24 2020. This is Jon Galloway. … Continue reading "Herding Code 240: Phil Haack on Working from Home"

Download / Listen: Herding Code 239: Jerome Laban on Uno Platform At Xamarin Developer Summit, Jon talks with Jerome Laban about building applications that run everywhere using the Uno Platform. (00:20) Jerome explains that the Uno Platform is XAML and C# for iOS, Android and WebAssembly using WinUI XAML. On iOS and Android, it’s running … Continue reading "Herding Code 239: Jerome Laban on Uno Platform"

Download / Listen: Herding Code 238: Martin Beeby on AWS for .NET Developers At DevSum Stockholm, Jon talks with Martin Beeby about .NET development on AWS. (00:20) The guys reminisce about Martin’s awesome blog post, Client Requests Through the Years. (03:30) Martin walks us through his career, which includes early adoption of .NET, stepping away … Continue reading "Herding Code 238: Martin Beeby on AWS for .NET Developers"

Download / Listen: Herding Code 237: Tess Ferrandez on Three Real World Machine Learning Projects At DevSum Stockholm, Jon talks with Tess Ferrandez about some machine learning applications she’s worked on recently, from sports to shoplifting to cancer detection. Tess talks about the specific ethical considerations that come up when classifying and predicting behavior, and … Continue reading "Herding Code 237: Tess Ferrandez on Three Real World Machine Learning Projects"

Download / Listen: Herding Code 236: Will Green on Going Serverless With AWS Kevin and Jon talk with Will Green (@hotgazpacho) about how his small team uses serverless development on the AWS platform to maximize their productivity. Topics: (00:20) Will’s team builds the FireEye Market, which enables you to “discover apps, extensions, and add-ons that … Continue reading "Herding Code 236: Will Green on Going Serverless With AWS"

Download / Listen: Herding Code 235: Matthew Renze on Data Science for Software Developers At DevSum Stockholm, Jon talks to Matthew Renze (@matthewrenze ) about data science practices to improve both the products they are creating and their software development practices. Topics: (00:20) Matthew explains how he’s been speaking to software developers about applying data … Continue reading "Herding Code 235: Matthew Renze on Data Science for Software Developers"

Download / Listen: Herding Code 234: Dylan Beattie on Social Impacts of Technology and the Meaning of Developer Seniority At DevSum Stockholm, Jon talks to Dylan Beattie (@dylanbeattie ) about the impacts our technology choices have on our world, different kinds of seniority for software developers, and how to get started as a conference speaker. … Continue reading "Herding Code 234: Dylan Beattie on Social Impacts of Technology and the Meaning of Developer Seniority"

Download / Listen: Herding Code 233: Dino Esposito on Blazor, ASP.NET Core, Writing Technical Books, and Machine Learning Jon talks to Dino Esposito at dotNext (Saint Petersburg, Russia) about Blazor, ASP.NET Core, Writing Technical Books, and Machine Learning. Topics: (00:45) Blazor (16:50) ASP.NET Core, the ASP.NET Core pipeline and proliferation of available endpoints (27:45: Writing … Continue reading "Herding Code 233: Dino Esposito on Blazor, ASP.NET Core, Writing Technical Books, and...

Download / Listen: Herding Code 232: Scott Koon on getting out of Tech, GitHub Package Registry, Build 2019 Recap Kevin, Scott K, and Jon talk about Scott Koon’s bold adventure out of the tech industry, GitHub Package Registry, and a Build 2019 Recap.

Download / Listen: Herding Code 231: .NET Foundation Elections, WSL, MAX_PATH, calc.exe, Edge on Chromium, Firefox, and Rogue Thermostats Kevin, K Scott, and Jon talk about .NET Foundation Elections, WSL, MAX_PATH, calc.exe, Edge on Chromium, Firefox, and Rogue Thermostats. Some links: .NET Foundation Elections Running Jekyll on Windows 10 / WSL https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator .NET 4.6.2 and … Continue reading "Herding Code 231: .NET Foundation Elections, WSL, MAX_PATH, calc.exe,...

Download / Listen: Herding Code 230: 2018 Year End Wrapup Kevin, K Scott, Jon, and Rob Conery talked about what they’ve been learning, programming languages vs. async patterns, message queues, blockchain, Claude Shannon, Mandarin, learning to play the drums, making perfect lattes, and more. In the interest of getting this out there, this one going … Continue reading "Herding Code 230: 2018 Year End Wrapup"

Download / Listen: Herding Code 229: Matt Warren on .NET Internals and Open Source Contributions The guys talked to Matt Warren about his recent blog posts on .NET open source and open source contributions. (00:20) How Matt goes about writing his in-depth blog posts (03:15) Arrays and the CLR – a Very Special Relationship (07:00) … Continue reading "Herding Code 229: Matt Warren on .NET Internals and Open Source Contributions"

Download / Listen: Herding Code 228: 2017 Wrap Up with Microservices, .NET Foundation, Mixed Reality, Bitcoin, Alexa The gang gets together to talk about what they’ve been up to, year end wrap-up, and some random odds and ends. Topics: K Scott’s been focused on cloud stuff – moving apps to the cloud. Kevin’s been working … Continue reading "Herding Code 228: 2017 Wrap Up with Microservices, .NET Foundation, Mixed Reality, Bitcoin, Alexa"

Download / Listen: Herding Code 226: Jon Skeet on .NET at Google and Feminism for Geeks Show Notes: .NET at Google (00:17) Jon G asks Jon Skeet about what he does at Google and how it relates to .NET. Jon’s working to make the Google Cloud Platform great for .NET developers. This is two-fold: if … Continue reading "Herding Code 226: Jon Skeet on .NET at Google and Feminism for Geeks"

Note: This was recorded several months ago. Our site was offline for a while, the dog ate our collective homework, etc. Sorry about that. The main thing that’s changed since we recorded was the addition of user profiles. Download / Listen: Herding Code 225: Glitch with Jenn Schiffer and Daniel X Moore Show Notes: Hello. … Continue reading "Herding Code 225: Glitch with Jenn Schiffer and Daniel X Moore"

Hey! We’re still here. We had some technical difficulties, were waiting to release some shows for a sponsorship, the dog ate our collective homework. Sorry about that! We’ve got some good episodes ready for you, so this is just heads up. Download / Listen: Herding Code: Not dead yet, podcasts incoming!

The gang talks to Jeremy Miller about some of his open source projects. Download / Listen: Herding Code 224: Jeremy Miller on Marten, Postgres and Alba Show Notes: Marten (01:20) Jeremy’s shops really like using document databases because there’s a lot less friction to develop and ship your applications. They were having trouble with their … Continue reading "Herding Code 224: Jeremy Miller on Marten, Postgres and Alba"