Bitpicking

Bitpicking

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Bitpicking episodes

  • That'll be $0 please!

    Why do so many of us develop for free?  Greg and Mark discuss the world of Open Source software and consider what drives developers to release and contribute to such projects, and consider whether other industries have similar behaviours!

    Feeling hungry? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67KtxG_0DVo

    38 min
  • Testing 1, 2

    Greg & Mark dive into the murky world of QA, and ask “shouldn’t the devs be doing that?”.

    Quality at speed - how Atlassian does testing https://youtu.be/yRP29wFqu20

    40 min
  • DevFlops

    Give me a Dev! Give me an Ops! What have you got?!?  Some Cloudformation templates and an Ansible script.  But what else should you have?

    Greg & Mark clear up any confusion around what DevOps is and who should be doing it ... or do they?

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      • 35 min
    • Old Men Yell At Cloud.js

      Mark & Greg tackle the issue of how teams make decisions on languages or frameworks, and when switching might, or might not, be appropriate.

      They also complain about Javascript a lot.

      Maybe use one of these on your next project!

      Brainf*** - if you're worried about backwards compatibility with your existing stack, worry no more!

      Rockstar! - Desire is a lovestruck ladykiller

      Flubber.js - Any resemblance to actual JS frameworks, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

      44 min
    • User Abuse
      In this episode we talk about engagement with users - in particular how to respond to App Reviews when they aren't entirely positive or have any actionable insight.
      Mark's Skype For Business shitlist - https://twitter.com/revbingo/status/951051421092401152
      AWS Load Balancers now support redirects to HTTPS, who knew! - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/elastic-load-balancing-announces-support-for-redirects-and-fixed-responses-for-application-load-balancer/
      38 min
    • Podcast for Hire
      It's episode 8 - Greg and Mark consider what makes a good job advert for hiring developers, and how much technology choices count as an indicator of company culture.
      We also discuss the latest blog from Cloudflare discussing their entry into the serverless computing landscape - Cloud computing without containers - https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloud-computing-without-containers/
      52 min
    • The Stud Wall Episode
      Greg & Mark reflect on their takeaways from the re:develop 2018 conference. —>
      Mark asks how professional the software industry really is given the expectations of other industries, and what is the right way to assess whether someone is actually any good.
      Then Greg expresses his frustration about the continued amount of conversations around whether to estimate or not by talking about estimating or not for 20 minutes.
      This week's links!
      Kent Becks 3X (Explore, Expand, Extract):
      https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/the-product-development-triathlon/1215075478525314/
      Intro to Cynefin (Warning: may contain Papyrus):
      http://cognitive-edge.com/videos/cynefin-framework-introduction/
      Uncle Bobs take on professionalism in software development:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0O1VVqRSK0
      Product: The Delivery:
      http://hepto.github.io/productthedelivery/
      Greg's c120 project:
      https://github.com/hepto/c120
      1 hr 3 min
    • Live! from re:develop 2018
      Greg and Mark wheel the outside broadcast unit out for the after party of the re:develop conference held in Bournemouth on 12th October 2018, and ask some of the speakers and attendees for their thoughts on the day.
      For the full list of talks and speakers, see redevelop.io/speakers , where videos of the talks will be available soon also.
      Featuring:
      * Tom Quay (@tomquay) - re:develop Organiser and Founder of Base / Passenger.
      * Stuart Landrige (@sil) - Speaker and owner at Kryogenix Consulting, host of Bad Voltage podcast.
      * Matt Wilson (@mattwilson1024) - Attendee, software developer and DJ.
      * Dan Thomas (@dannyt) - Speaker and Founder of Moov2.
      * Thor Mitchell (@ThorMitchell) - Speaker and former Chief Product Officer at Crowdcube.
      * Dan Wentworth (@darkphnx) - re:develop Organiser and Head of Development at aTech Media.
      * Adam West (@theukbatman) - Support Analyst at aTech Media.
      * John Le Drew (@antz29) - Speaker and Founder / Principal Consultant at Wise Noodles.
      * Tom Geraghty (@tom_geraghty) - Speaker and former Head of UK Cloud Platform Ops for Experian.
      * Jorge Lambert-Cruz (@jsclambert) - Attendee and Technical Architect at Siemens.
      1 hr 5 min

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