Ward Bell, VP of Product Management for IdeaBlade, talked to me at TechEd about DevForce, his company’s ORM product for .Net developers. It didn’t stop there. Ward dropped knowledge on several other things including:
and of course, qualities of Elegant Code.
This week’s Code Cast is a discussion with Jarod Ferguson, an Elegant Coder who takes us through several topics including:
and plenty more.
In this episode of the Elegant Code Cast, we talk with Mike Moore of the RubyVerse podcast and Darrel Carver, our last guest. Mike listened to Darrel’s interview and had some views of his own on the state of software development.
This discussion focuses primarily on the familiar question of programming as an art or a science, but touches on some of the promising technologies leading us into the next level of our craft. I hope you enjoy the discussion.
This podcast was recorded with Skype.
In this Code Cast, we meet Darrel Carver, a 30 year veteran of the software industry, an accomplished software architect, and an Elegant Coder.Darrel gives us a little historical perspective on our craft as we explore things like minimalism, the role of the architect, and Model Driven Architectures. This is a great talk.
This week’s Elegant Code Cast is an interview with Matt Milner of PluralSight.
Matt is an amazing presenter and fount of knowledge on WCF, WF, and BizTalk. He drops some great knowledge on these subjects and enterprise SOA, along with some discussion of Oslo, Microsoft’s new Model Driven initiative.
Today’s interview with an Elegant Coder is with Scott Nichols, a solution architect with many years experience in very large IT organizations. Scott shares his wisdom on several subjects including:
In this episode of the Elegant Code Cast, we visit with Elegant Coder Chris Brandsma. Chris is a senior developer at Mobile Data Force in Boise, Idaho. Chris provides some great details on subjects ranging from AJAX and RIA separation of concerns to LINQ and Lambda expressions.
He also gives us a glimpse of what it is like to live your life visiting other people’s development shops. Did you know source control is stil optional in some organizations?
Chris is a true code craftsman and this shows in his clear explanations of some very advanced programming concepts. If you haven’t played with Lambda expressions, anonymous delegates, or LINQ, start with this podcast.
This episode of the Elegant Code Cast features an interview with Scott Schimanski, a long time technologist, programming language aficionado, and currently QA Manager for Healthwise, Incorporated in Boise, Idaho. Scott is a certified Project management Professional, Scrum Master, and Adjunct Professor in Computer Science at Northwest Nazarene University.
In this discussion, Scott discusses his experiences with Agile software development from the tester and QA perspective. Scott also shares several QA focused tools and how his team has found success by applying tools like Ruby, WATIR, Team Foundation Server, and others.
One technical note, I have figured out why the recorder is picking up the background ambient noise. I look forward to future recordings not having the underlying air conditioner hum in it. I apologize to Scott and the listeners for not having a cleaner track.
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Welcome the first episode of the Elegant Code Cast, a new production of ElegantCode.com.
We are excited to be branching out into new mediums by augmenting the Elegant Code blog with new an exciting content. The focus of our shows will be on real life techniques and developers in the field, just like us. Although we intend to be technology agnostic, most of the Elegant Coders work in the Micrososft stack and this tends to drive the focus of our content toward a Microsoft technology stack.
Although show formats will vary and include interviews and even screencasts, we will be producing a monthly audio cast of a roundtable breakfast attended by all of us at ElegantCode.com. That’s how we will kick off the Elegant Code Cast, with a recording made at the December Elegant Coder’s breakfast on December 17th, 2007.
The conversation at this round table focuses on what it means to be a software development professional and how to promote professionalism among our peers. We hope you enjoy the show.
Some of the references in the conversation include:
