Scott talks to Techtonic's Heather Terenzio about how her company is scaling tech apprenticeship. Techtonic Group is a software services company building web-based and mobile products for start-ups and the Fortune 1000. Four years ago, Heather founded Techtonic Academy to train people with diverse backgrounds how to code using a unique, Department of Labor (DOL) approved Apprenticeship program. Techtonic Group was recently named “2017 Innovative Company of the Year” by the Boulder Chamber of Com...
Sep 27, 2018•32 min•Ep 651•Transcript available on Metacast Mark Rendle is the author of a number of open source projects and most recently he's been creating global tools with .NET Core. Scott and Mark talk about the importance of global tools to today's development process. What kinds of things can you make and how can we tap into this growing ecosystem? https://github.com/RendleLabs https://twitter.com/markrendle
Sep 20, 2018•30 min•Ep 650•Transcript available on Metacast VM Brasseur has been a leader in open source for decades and is the Vice President of the Open Source Initiative. Now she's brought her experience together into a booked called "Forge Your Future with Open Source." It's the missing manual of open source contributions and community participation. https://pragprog.com/book/vbopens/forge-your-future-with-open-source https://twitter.com/vmbrasseur
Sep 13, 2018•32 min•Ep 649•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Nicole Fosgren has a PhD in Management Information Systems and a Masters in Accounting. She's just released the Accelerate: State of DevOps 2018: Strategies for a New Economy report as well as the supporting book on the topic. Nicole talks to Scott about the state of DevOps - who are the high performers and how do they perform so well? Using rigorous scientific method we'll learn WHY companies are successful in delivering software reliably with speed and quality. Buy Accelerate! https://amzn...
Sep 06, 2018•34 min•Ep 648•Transcript available on Metacast There's a huge number of questions swirling around the European Union's GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). In this episode Scott sits down with Gary Nissenbaum to try to make sense of it. Since Gary is a lawyer in the United States, we will be mostly focusing how GDPR affects developers in America. https://www.gdnlaw.com/
Aug 30, 2018•34 min•Ep 647•Transcript available on Metacast Windows 10 runs Linux natively! How is that possible? Scott talks to Microsoft's Tara Raj, the Program Manager for the Windows Subsystem for Linux. How does this technology work? Tara explains the internals of WSL to Scott in this episode. https://twitter.com/tara_msft
Aug 23, 2018•35 min•Ep 646•Transcript available on Metacast Laura Frank Tacho is the Director of Engineering at CloudBees and has been working with Docker almost since its inception. She shares her experiences in running teams that constantly rely on and deploy containers at scale. How have containers changed effectively everything and where are we heading? https://twitter.com/rhein_wein
Aug 16, 2018•36 min•Ep 645•Transcript available on Metacast Ben Wheeler teaches tech to kids ages 4 to 104. He talks to Scott about how to effectively teach technology, as well as the importance of social context around tech. Everyone's journey to tech is different. How can we as teachers use those journeys to make everyone successful? Robot Owl Newsletter https://twitter.com/benjiwheeler https://education.lego.com/en-us/elementary/intro/c/computational-thinking https://education.lego.com/en-us/support/wedo https://scratchx.org/ http://microbit.org/ Zen ...
Aug 09, 2018•33 min•Ep 644•Transcript available on Metacast Julia Evans has been making comics and zines for years. You've likely learned "How to be a wizard programmer" from one of Julia's comics. She's a software developer at Stripe in her day job and on this episode she talks to Scott about how to effectively teach and learn computer concepts. https://twitter.com/b0rk https://drawings.jvns.ca/wizard-programmer/ https://gumroad.com/l/bite-size-linux
Aug 02, 2018•33 min•Ep 643•Transcript available on Metacast The Blazor project aims to bring .NET to the open Web using Web Assembly. Scott talks to Steve Sanderson about this experiment and it's future plans. How are they compiling C# and .NET to Web Assembly in a way that works everywhere? How does Mono and .NET Standard fit in? https://blazor.net/ https://twitter.com/stevensanderson Blazor 0.5 release!...
Jul 26, 2018•36 min•Ep 642•Transcript available on Metacast April Wensel is the founder of Compassionate Coding, a conscious business that helps technical teams cultivate sustainable, human-centered software development practices built on a foundation of emotional intelligence. She talks to Scott about how we can apply these concepts to our own software projects. https://twitter.com/aprilwensel https://compassionatecoding.com
Jul 19, 2018•32 min•Ep 641•Transcript available on Metacast Nic Steenhout is a long term A11y (accessibility) advocate who works remotely for Knowbility, an Austin, TX based non-profit. In this episode Scott and Nicolas talk about various kinds of accessibility from the web to mobile devices to wheelchair ramps! He's also the host of the A11y Rules podcast. https://twitter.com/vavroom https://a11yrules.com/
Jul 12, 2018•33 min•Ep 640•Transcript available on Metacast Maurice Cherry is a veteran designer AND veteran podcastee. His award-winning podcast Revision Path has showcased nearly 250 Black Designers and influencers. Scott and Maurice talk about the importance of good design on today's web (AND good podcasts!) Where does Maurice see design going with the rise of cookie-cutter themes. Is it hard to be unique and fresh with the rise of the Visible Designer? https://twitter.com/mauricecherry https://revisionpath.com/
Jul 05, 2018•32 min•Ep 639•Transcript available on Metacast Patricia Aas is a C++ programmer working on the Vivaldi Browser where she has currently taken on platform integration of media. She has previously worked at Opera Software on their Desktop Browser and at Cisco on their Telepresence Hardware Endpoints, primarily on Linux. In this episode she and Scott tackle the hard questions around C++ - Is it getting a bad wrap? Patricia always waxes philosophic on the browser wars! https://twitter.com/pati_gallardo http://patricia.no http://patricia.no/2017/0...
Jun 28, 2018•36 min•Ep 638•Transcript available on Metacast Is a Programming Bootcamp right for you? Why choose a bootcamp over self-study? How instrumental was having done a camp on your resume to get your job? Scott talks with bootcamp graduate Kristen Leake about her journey into technology. 3 Secrets to Getting a Job After Coding Bootcamp https://twitter.com/Kristen_Leake
Jun 21, 2018•33 min•Ep 637•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Neil Brown recently published a scholarly article on how to effectively teach programming. Rather than a series of anecdotes, this is backed up by actual research in educational psychology. He talks to Scott about how we can and should approach teaching the next generation of developers. https://software-carpentry.org/ http://runestoneinteractive.org/LearningAtScale/parsons.html http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006023...
Jun 14, 2018•34 min•Ep 636•Transcript available on Metacast Azure Sphere is a new solution for creating highly-secured, Internet-connected microcontroller (MCU) devices. Caitie McCaffrey is Principal Software Engineering Lead on the project and is an expert in building large scale services and systems for folks like 343 Industries (Halo), HBO, Twitter, and more. How will this new system (and new Linux) keep our IoT devices safe? https://twitter.com/caitie Hiring Principal Software Engineer https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/409416/Principal-Software...
Jun 08, 2018•33 min•Ep 635•Transcript available on Metacast Scott and Mark Downie have been blogging for nearly 15 years using a blogging system called "DasBlog." It started with .NET 1.1 and now Mark is forking DasBlog and taking it into an open source future with .NET Core. Scott talks to Mark about his first open source project, community response, .NET Standard, and moving a legacy app forward while still maintaining stability. http://twitter.com/poppastring https://github.com/poppastring/dasblog-core
Jun 01, 2018•35 min•Ep 634•Transcript available on Metacast Do you need to speak English to Code? Ahmed Abdalla created Noor , an Arabic Programming Language as a way to teach programming to Arabic-speaking kids. https://twitter.com/SimplyAhmaz1ng https://github.com/SimplyAhmazing/noor https://pegjs.org/ http://createyourproglang.com/ https://www.hanselman.com/blog/DoYouHaveToKnowEnglishToBeAProgrammer.aspx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qalb_(programming_language)
May 25, 2018•33 min•Ep 633•Transcript available on Metacast Xbox One X Enhanced Games with Backward Compatibility are AMAZING. You can play a decade old game - originally meant for 640x480 or 720p resolution - and enjoy it in 4k resolution. Not upscaled. Actually up to 10x clearer within recompiling the game? How? Xbox's Eric Heutchy tells Scott how! https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2017/10/23/play-three-generations-of-games-better-on-xbox-one/
May 18, 2018•33 min•Ep 632•Transcript available on Metacast Kevin Scott is the CTO of Microsoft...but how did he get there? Scott talks to Kevin about his experience from early teens through his successful foray at LinkedIn and beyond. Where does Kevin see technology going and how do we help get more people involved in the future of technology?
May 10, 2018•38 min•Ep 631•Transcript available on Metacast Ire Aderinokun is a self-taught UI/UX Designer and Front-End Developer working in Lagos, Nigeria. She is currently the Technical Lead at Big Cabal Media. She says the Next Billion Users are coming online now and they'll be outside Western countries and they'll be mobile first. What do we need to know as Web Developers to create great apps and sites for the Next Billion?
May 04, 2018•31 min•Ep 630•Transcript available on Metacast We talked to Arlan Hamilton two years ago (almost to the day) as she was starting her Venture Fund for underrepresented founders. What's changed since then? Arlan Hamilton's Backstage Capital has invested more than $4M+ in over 80 companies led by underrepresented founders. How has she gone from Homeless to VC in just a few years? Arlan also recently started Project Cover to give micro-grants to driven creatives. Scott catches up with Arlan to hear about how she's continued to build her team and...
Apr 27, 2018•33 min•Ep 629•Transcript available on Metacast Kent Sullivan and Derek Hoiem were some of the original hires at the User Research Labs at Microsoft. The worked on the exploratory user research that produced the taskbar and Start menu, as well as the iterative research that helped nail down the details. How did the Start Menu and Start Button come to be? https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/11/10923808/microsoft-windows-start-menu-20-years-visual-history https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/localizability/mirroring-awareness http://becur...
Apr 20, 2018•32 min•Ep 628•Transcript available on Metacast Dan Curry was a Visual Effects Supervisor, Visual Effects Producer, Second Unit Director, Director and Main Title Designer for Star Trek’s Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise and Next Generation series. He spent 18 years doing Star Trek and pioneering visual and practical effects. On this episode he talks to Scott about his time and inspiration for a number of the props you've seen in the show you love! Even better, some of his collection is being auctioned on April 15th, 2018. Dan Curry on Her...
Apr 13, 2018•32 min•Ep 627•Transcript available on Metacast Christine Spang started her tech journey contributing to Debian while still a teenager. She went on to MIT, then worked on Ksplice, helping the Linux kernel stay up-to-date without rebooting. From there working as a Principal Developer at Oracle, Christine when on to co-found Nylas where she's currently the CTO. Scott talks to Christine about her experience, her thoughts on going from Dev to CTO, leading teams, and their product suite at Nylas. https://www.nylas.com/ https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/12...
Apr 05, 2018•31 min•Ep 626•Transcript available on Metacast Matt Phillips didn't just creating a brand-new Sega Megadrive/Genesis Game in 2018 called Tanglewood. He did it using the original dev kit, computers, and software from 1995. You can experience Tanglewood today and buy it with a proper cartridge, box, and manual! http://tanglewoodgame.com https://bigevilcorporation.itch.io/tanglewood-demo-0104
Mar 30, 2018•34 min•Ep 625•Transcript available on Metacast Scott digs into the SAFE Stack with Krzysztof Cielak. SAFE is an end-to-end, functional-first stack for cloud-ready web development that emphasizes type-safe programming. Is this your next programming paradigm? https://safe-stack.github.io/ https://github.com/SAFE-Stack https://suave.io/ http://fable.io/ https://elmish.github.io/elmish/ https://azure.com/free
Mar 23, 2018•36 min•Ep 624•Transcript available on Metacast Scott talks to Cecil Phillip about how cloud architecture is changing everything. But what's IaaS, PaaS, then FaaS, and now serverless? How will being billed for usage affect software architecture? http://www.clearlytech.com/2014/01/04/12-factor-apps-plain-english/ http://cecilphillip.com http://awayfromthekeyboard.com/
Mar 15, 2018•33 min•Ep 623•Transcript available on Metacast Marc Durdin has been working on the same open source project more or less since he was 14! Today Keyman is a thriving open source project that supports over 1000 languages and works on Windows, Mac, Phones, and the Web! http://keyman.com http://keymanweb.com https://marc.durdin.net/2018/03/the-case-for-keyman/
Mar 09, 2018•33 min•Ep 622•Transcript available on Metacast 
