Software Engineering Daily has been around for almost two years. In this episode Pranay Mohan and Erika Hokanson join me for a reflection on where we have been and where we are going. Pranay was the producer of Software Engineering Daily for the first year, after which he left and went to work at Snapchat. Erika joined the show 9 months ago to work on operations, ad sales, and expansion plans.

The thesis of Software Engineering Daily has always been that serious, in-depth material about software provides value. Right now we are a podcast about software engineering. We are planning expansion into a larger media company with video, a mobile app, a desktop platform, more podcasts, and more journalism. Pranay, Erika, and I have crafted the vision for Software Engineering Daily.

We want serious, inspiring, technical content to be more widespread. We know that you do too. If you have any suggestions you would like to see from us, you can always email me: [email protected].

It’s already been 500 episodes and I am even more excited about Software Engineering Daily than I was when I began–looking forward to episode 1000.

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Microsoft’s past is full of stories. It’s early period of corporate domination in the 1990s was followed by a period of government antitrust scrutiny, and a period of unsure product direction. Today, Microsoft’s focus on cloud has allowed the company to regain its footing with a clear trajectory for growth.

Since 2002, Richard Campbell has chronicled the Microsoft developer community as co-host of .NET Rocks!, a podcast that was originally about the C# .NET framework. Richard also founded Humanitarian Toolbox, an open source set of tools for assisting disaster relief organizations.

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Engineers have plenty to be skeptical about. We look to data sets to give us something resembling objective truth. Some areas of research have so many variables that it is hard to isolate facts. Kyle Polich hosts the popular data science show Data Skeptic, where he examines problems and solutions around data, and he is one of the guests today in our round table discussion.

There are some big unanswered questions in our world that might eventually be solved with enough data and the right scientific approach: nutrition, or drug discovery, or image classification. The hiring process is like this. How can you predict whether an engineer will make for a good hire? Ammon Bartram of Triplebyte is working on solving the hiring process for engineering organizations and he is the other guest for this roundtable episode.

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Apple controls the iOS ecosystem. As an accident of history, Apple also controls the podcasting ecosystem. Unlike most ecosystems within Apple’s dominion, podcasts remain open. A podcaster merely has to record an mp3, distribute it via RSS feed, and submit that RSS feed to the iTunes podcast portal.

Podcasting has thrived in recent years, but very few technology companies have managed to take advantage of that growth. Libsyn is the most popular place to host a podcast. Libsyn is a combination of a CDN, a hosting service, analytics, and place to get an RSS feed for a podcaster. There have been many clones of Libsyn over the years, but the company remains the industry standard.

For people who are confused–iTunes does not host any audio files. It is just an index of feeds. A podcaster needs to host audio files somewhere in order to give iTunes access.

Today’s guest Rob Walch joins the show to talk about podcasts–including his podcast Today in iOS. I had a great time meeting Rob at the Microsoft Build conference. Special thanks to Bharat Bhat for organizing the podcast booths at Microsoft Build.

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Public data is not always so accessible. It is nice when you can request data simply by making an API call, but that is the exception rather than the rule–especially when we are talking about data managed by the government. Oil and gas drilling data falls into this category.

Oseberg is a company that is building a tool for analyzing oil and gas data. Oseberg is a rich dashboard for knowledge workers to query and visualize the data. Evan Anderson is the CEO of Oseberg, and he joins me to discuss building a business where the data is hard to acquire.

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