Technical Speaking With Saron Yitbarek TableXI is offering training for developers and product teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com . Summary Presenting a technical talk can be an important part of a developer's career. In this episode, we're talking about how to perform a technical talk with Saron Yitbarek. Saron runs the CodeNewbie Podcast, and others, and organizes and coaches speakers for the Codeland Conference. Saron and I both have some thoughts and opinions about how to deli...
Jul 25, 2018•49 min
Apprenticeship with Megan Tiu, Kara Carrell, and Alyssa Ramsey TableXI is offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com . Get your FREE career growth strategy information and techniques! Summary What is an apprenticeship program, how is it different from an internship, and how can your company benefit from having one? In this episode, we’re talking about technical apprenticeships with Megan Tiu of Women Who Code. Megan and I have both run apprent...
Jul 11, 2018•37 min
Diversity and Inclusion at Small Companies with Meara Charnetzki, Michael Donnelly, and Elena Valentine TableXI is now offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com . Get your FREE career growth strategy information and techniques! Summary What can a small company do to improve its diversity and inclusion practices when your company just isn't changing personnel quickly enough to improve via hiring? Here to discuss this are Meara Charnetzki from ...
Jun 20, 2018•38 min
Organizing Technical Conferences TableXI is now offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, go to http://tablexi.com/workshops . Get your FREE career growth strategy information and techniques! Summary I've been attending technical conferences for years, and I've always wondered about the hidden challenges involved in putting a conference together. In this show, four of the best conference organizers I know join me to share their secrets and stories. Marty Haught, organiz...
Jun 06, 2018•50 min
Diverse Agile Teams with Marlena Compton, Betsy Haibel, and Jennifer Tu TableXI is now offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com . Get your FREE career growth strategy information and techniques! Guests Marlena Compton : Organizer of PearConf . Betsy Haibel : CTO at Cohere . Jennifer Tu : Co-Founder at Cohere . Summary How do common Agile practices like pair programming and retrospectives work when you have diverse teams? How can you make sur...
May 23, 2018•47 min
Your First 100 Days Onboarding A New Employee With Shay Howe and John Gore TableXI is now offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com . Get your FREE career growth strategy information and techniques! Guests John Gore : Founder of CultureScape ; Everyone Onboard . Shay Howe : ActiveCampaign Design Team Leader; Lead Honestly Summary Tech Done Right is looking at onboarding from both sides. In this episode we talk with Shay Howe and John Gore abo...
May 09, 2018•44 min
Your First 100 Days At A New Company with Katie Gore and Elizabeth Trepkowski Hodos TableXI is now offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com . Get your FREE career growth strategy information and techniques! Guests Katie Gore : Founder and President of speech IRL . Elizabeth Trepkowski Hodos : Founder of Elizabeth Hodos: Corporate Improv Training Summary Tech Done Right is looking at onboarding from both sides. In this episode we talk with Ka...
May 09, 2018•42 min
AI and the Future of Design and Development with Zach Pousman TableXI is now offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com . Get your FREE career growth strategy information and techniques! Rails 5 Test Prescriptions is updated, available, and shipping! Summary What does AI mean for the future of design, development? Can I be replaced by an AI algorithm? Today, we talk to Zach Pousman, from the consultancy Helpfully. Zach thinks a lot about artif...
Apr 25, 2018•46 min
Programming Languages and Communication With Kerri Miller TableXI is now offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com . Get your FREE career growth strategy information and techniques! Rails 5 Test Prescriptions is updated, available, and shipping! Guest Kerri Miller : Senior Developer at TravisCI and Ruby Community Member. Co-Organizer of the Open Source and Feelings Conference . Blog . Summary Why is Smalltalk the Elizabethan English of progra...
Apr 11, 2018•47 min
Back in the Testing Weeds with Sam Phippen and Justin Searls TableXI is now offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com . Get your FREE career growth strategy information and techniques! Rails 5 Test Prescriptions is updated, available, and shipping! Guests Sam Phippen : Tech Lead at DigitalOcean and member of the RSpec Core Team Justin Searls : Co-founder of Test Double Summary I'm back in the testing weeds with Sam Phippen, lead maintainer fo...
Mar 28, 2018•41 min
React Native with Gant Laborde, Ed LaFoy, and Brent Vatne Get your FREE career growth strategy information and techniques! TableXI is now offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com . Rails 5 Test Prescriptions is updated and available for purchase! Guests Gant Laborde : Chief Technology Strategist at Infinite Red . Gant on Medium . Ed LaFoy : Director of Mobile Development at TableXI . Brent Vatne : React Native and Expo Developer at Expo . Su...
Mar 14, 2018•44 min
Building New Products With Neil Patel Guest Neil Patel : Co-Founder of Crazy Egg , Hello Bar , and Kissmetrics , Serial Entrepreneur, and Marketer. Blog . Things we Do TableXI is now offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com . Get your FREE career growth strategy information and techniques! Rails 5 Test Prescriptions is updated and available for purchase! Summary How can you take an idea, find a development team to realize your vision, and th...
Feb 28, 2018•26 min
How to Design Applications for Doctors and Patients Follow us on Twitter! @tech_done_right Also, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts ! The newsletter is back! For more information on upcoming episodes, sign up at http://techdoneright.io/newsletter Guests Mark Yoon : Developer and Director of Talent at Table XI Kyoko Crawford : CEO of SkinIO . Summary How do you design for both doctors and patients, two very different audiences that need the same data? If you are designing health care tech...
Feb 14, 2018•45 min
Developers from the Perspective of Product Owners Follow us on Twitter! @tech_done_right Also, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts ! The newsletter is back! For more information on upcoming episodes, sign up at http://techdoneright.io/newsletter Guests Cat de Merode : VP of Product at PeaPod Matt McNamara : Product Manager Summary Have you ever wondered what it's like to work with a software team? Perhaps you are a developer wondering what you seem like from the outside? Or maybe you are ...
Jan 31, 2018•40 min
Open Source and Companies with Nell Shamrell-Harrington Follow us on Twitter! @tech_done_right Also, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts ! Guest Nell Shamrell-Harrington : Senior Software Development Engineer at Chef , CTO of Operation Code . nellshamrell.com Summary What's it like to run an Open Source project as part of your day job? How does open source change when it's backed by a company? Why is it useful for a company to run open source projects? Nell Shamrell-Harrington, who runs t...
Jan 16, 2018•40 min
Marketing and Building an Audience With Suzan Bond Follow us on Twitter! @tech_done_right Also, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts ! Guest Suzan Bond : Host of the Indiedoes Podcast , Founder of Bet On Yourself and Bet On Your People . Summary Are you a developer that wants to create your own content and build an audience? Suzan Bond joins the show to talk about how to bet on your self. We talk about how to be comfortable marketing, how to present yourself as a credible source for develo...
Jan 03, 2018•41 min
Podcasting and Audio Stories with Dr. Ed Livingston Follow us on Twitter! @tech_done_right Also, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts ! Guest Dr. Ed Livingston : Practicing surgeon and Journal of the American Medical Association JAMA . Deputy Editor for Clinical Reviews and Education. Summary How can your company use podcasting to make their content available and relevant for a whole new audience? Dr. Ed Livingston joins the show to discuss how the Journal of the American Medical Associati...
Dec 13, 2017•47 min
The Social Responsibility of Coding with Liz Abinante Follow us on Twitter @tech_done_right , and please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts ! Guest Liz Abinante : Senior Software Engineer at GitHub and occasionally acts as Ruby Documentation Empress at RubyTogether . Blogs at lizabinante.com . Summary What responsibility do developers have for the consequences of their code? Liz Abinante joins the show to talk about overlooked consequences, big and small, and what you can do if you find your se...
Nov 29, 2017•41 min
Ruby Tapas and Avoiding Code with Avdi Grimm Follow us on Twitter @tech_done_right , and please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts ! Guest Avdi Grimm : Creator of the RubyTapas Screencast Series and author of Exceptional Ruby and Confident Ruby . avdi.codes Summary Avdi Grimm has been creating the RubyTapas screencast series for five years. In this episode Avdi and I talk about why he decided to do RubyTapas, and what makes a good episode. We also talk about the resources that helped us when we...
Nov 15, 2017•42 min
Live Panel: Hiring Developers in (and out of) Health Care Follow us on Twitter @tech_done_right , and please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts ! Guests Mark Yoon Director of Talent at TableXI Liz Vellojin Strategic Lead at Outcome Health Lia James Branding and Talent Consultant at HumanPredictions Summary Hiring and retaining developers is hard. If you are in the health care industry, and require some specialized knowledge it's even harder. Joining the show for a live panel discussion are Lia ...
Nov 01, 2017•1 hr 21 min
Nonviolent Communication With Nadia Odunayo Follow us on Twitter @tech_done_right , and please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts ! Guest Nadia Odunayo , nadiaodunayo.com , Co-host of Ruby Book Club , director at Ignition Works . Summary Do you have interactions with co-workers where one or both of you get angry and defensive, and everybody ends up frustrated? Today we talk to Nadia Odunayo about "Nonviolent Communication", a way to communicate that honestly addresses issues, explaining how you...
Oct 18, 2017•41 min
How Set Design Can Inform Software Architecture With Betsy Haibel Follow us on Twitter @tech_done_right , and please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts ! Guest Betsy Haibel or betsyhaibel.com , co-founder of Cohere Summary Any profession that requires you to hit a budget and a deadline while balancing the project vision with practical logistics has a lot to say to software architects and project managers. Betsy Haibel was a professional theatrical set designer before becoming a software develop...
Oct 04, 2017•41 min
Developer Bootcamps and Computing Education with Jeff Casimir and Mark Guzdial Follow us on Twitter @tech_done_right , and please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts ! Guests Mark Guzdial : Professor in Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and Computer Science Education Researcher. Jeff Casimir : Executive Director at The Turing School . Summary How do people learn computing? Who learns best from traditional computer science education and who from bootcamps? How can we teach people who are not ...
Sep 20, 2017•52 min
Navigating the JavaScript World Follow us on Twitter @tech_done_right , and please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts ! Guests Zach Briggs | theotherzach.com Trek Glowacki Melanie Sumner | melsumner.com Marques Woodson Summary How do professional JavaScript programmers choose new tools or evaluate frameworks? What are the most important concepts in JavaScript development these days? This panel discussion was recorded live on Aug 24, 2017 with Zach Briggs, Trek Glowacki, Melanie Sumner, and Marq...
Sep 06, 2017•1 hr 6 min
Agile UX Product Design with Yana Carstens and Jeff Patton Follow us on Twitter! @tech_done_right , and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts . Guests Jeff Patton : Author of User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product and owner of Jeff Patton & Associates . Yana Carstens : Senior User Experience Designer at TableXI . Summary Agile practices help you build software. UX design helps you build the right software. Teams often struggle integrating UX design into agile pra...
Aug 23, 2017•39 min
The Elm Programming Language With Corey Haines Follow us on Twitter! @tech_done_right , and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts . Guest Corey Haines : CTO of Hearken , creator of code retreats, and author of Understanding the Four Rules of Simple Design . Summary Want to build great front-end apps without having to deal with the entire JavaScript ecosystem? Corey Haines joins the show to talk about Elm, a front-end language and framework that is type safe, has great build tools, and a full-fledg...
Aug 09, 2017•46 min
Open Source: The Big Picture with Nadia Eghbal Follow us on Twitter @tech_done_right , leave us a review on Apple Podcasts , and please sign up for our newsletter ! Guest Nadia Eghbal : Works on Open Source Initiatives at GitHub , Author of Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure ; Read her essays on Open Source on Medium Summary The Internet runs on Open Source. Open Source runs on maintainers and contributors. Is that sustainable? We talk to Nadia Eghbal about her...
Jul 26, 2017•37 min
Agile Teams and Escaping Velocity with Doc Norton and Claire Podulka Follow us on Twitter! @tech_done_right , leave us a review on iTunes, and please sign up for our newsletter ! Guests Doc Norton : Co-Founder and CEO of CTO2 . Claire Podulka : Project Manager at Table XI . Summary How can you tell whether an agile software team is successful? Many teams use a single measure: velocity. Doc Norton, author of Escape Velocity, and Claire Podulka join the show to discuss why velocity is not a useful...
Jul 12, 2017•45 min
From Idea To Company With Maci Peterson and Alicia Drucker Follow us on Twitter! @tech_done_right , leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, and please sign up for our newsletter ! Guests Maci Peterson : Co-founder and CEO of On Second Thought . Alicia Drucker: Director of Software Delivery at Table XI Summary How does an idea become a pitch become a company? Join Maci Peterson , founder of the startup On Second Thought, and Alicia Drucker, from Table XI, to discuss how a bad text can lead to a good...
Jun 28, 2017•41 min
Livable Code With Sarah Mei Follow us on Twitter! @tech_done_right , leave us a review on iTunes, and please sign up for our newsletter ! Guest Sarah Mei : Founder of RailsBridge , Director of Ruby Central , Chief Consultant at DevMynd Software . Summary Is your code the kind of cluttered house you might find on a reality TV show? Or the kind of sleek, minimalist house you might find in a architectural magazine. Neither one sounds like a place you could comfortably live. Sarah Mei joins the podc...
Jun 14, 2017•42 min
