Episode Summary

This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chat with Barry Johnson, Trainer and CTO of Seek Quality. During episode, Barry Johnson talks about his career from early beginnings as a student at Clemson, through starting Carolina Online which eventually became Nuvox Communications and now Windstream, watching the formation of the internet at Clemson culminating with his position at Clemson’s CTO. They also discuss is current role with Seek Quality at CTO and Trainer, the process of transitioning into a technical leadership position and the upcoming The Family CTO podcast. It’s a great story and a journey that you don’t want to miss!

“If somebody offers you leadership training that means they see potential in you and you should take it.” - Barry Johnson

Episode Notes

Highlights from this week’s episode include:

* 34 Years at Clemson University: From Student to Clemson CTO (1:36)

* Computer Science with AI in 1989 (3:20)

* COBOL on Mainframes, Usenet, Hubcap and early Internet (8:56)

* The 1st Online T-shirt Business (potentially) and the Podfather (21:21)

* The Carolina Online story (28:18)

* Back to Clemson: LAN Parties, Roommates and Building Clemson IT (40:58)

* Auth systems, SAML and the CTO step (52:23)

* Next steps with Seek Quality, GitLab and DevOps (59:08)

* Early Years: SciFi, Commodore 64 and Apple II (1:06:06)

* Being the Family CTO (1:08:25)

* Transition from Technology into Leadership (1:11:18)

Links

* Barry Johnson on LinkedIn

* Seek Quality

* Clemson University

* Coming soon - The Family CTO Podcast

Carolina Code Cast is a podcast that covers a wide variety of topics in the coding and data space. Learn more about this year’s Carolina Code Conference at carolina.codes.

Developed with assistance from Heard Media.

Episode Summary

This week on a special edition of the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chat with John Warner…twice! Due to some technical difficulties that prevented his original interview from running as Episode 2 ahead of the Innoventures Futures Festival in September, so we had John back on the show in November to talk about how things went and what the future looks like. In this special episode, you get to hear both conversations as Barry and John talk about Innoventure past and future, the transformation of Greenville over the last few decades, advanced manufacturing, economic development, what it takes to attract and retain talent and much more. It’s a very insightful look from one of the upstate’s greatest advocates.

“We’ve got best in class manufacturing and supply chains here. I think we can position ourselves as best in class in the world.” - John Warner

Episode Notes

Highlights from this week’s episode include:

* November Interview: InnoVenture Futures Fest Recap (1:05)

* Future of the Futures Fest (3:10)

* Overlap of Advanced Manufacturing and Code (6:05)

* Potential Spring Event (9:10)

* Mechatronics (13:00)

* Favorite Memories from InnoVenture (16:24)

* September Interview Introduction (18:29)

* How did InnoVenture get started? (23:09)

* Trying things to see what works (28:42)

* Structure of InnoVenture Futures Fest 2023 (31:42)

* Scheduling around football season (35:51)

* Greenville’s transformation wasn’t an accident (38:44)

* Clemson ICAR’s off-road autonomous vehicles (44:59)

* Attracting talented people to Greenville (49:49)

* Benefits of the Swamp Rabbit Trail (55:34)

* Warren Buffet and the Wright Brothers (59:21)

Links

* John Warner on LinkedIn, Twitter/X

* InnoVenture

* Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research

* The Swamp Rabbit Trail and The Doodle Trail

Carolina Code Cast is a podcast that covers a wide variety of topics in the coding and data space. Learn more about this year’s Carolina Code Conference at carolina.codes.

Developed with assistance from Heard Media.

Episode Summary

In this special Valentine’s episode of the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with his wife, Christie Jones, Owner and President of Therapy360. During the episode they talk about the journey of starting and growing Therapy360 over the last 17 years, balancing work life, family life, conference preparation and almost 20 years of marriage while enjoying their evening tea after a date night in Clemson. Happy Valentine’s Day!

“You have to explain why there was a mattress in the office…” - Christie Jones

Episode Notes

Highlights from this week’s episode include:

* Winding down with evening tea (0:44)

* Pediatric Speech, Occupational and Physical Therapy (2:32)

* News Anchor or Speech-Language Pathologist? (6:54)

* Why did you want to start a practice? (10:24)

* Groundhog Day (14:33)

* Smokey, the therapy dog (18:35)

* Deciding to hire & Working 3 weeks after a new baby (22:21)

* Fighting the move to an administrative role (29:20)

* New Offices, Locations, Buying Your First Building (32:39)

* Surprises from a 4 day work week (38:26)

* Balancing family, kids and vacation with a business (42:07)

* Helping with the Carolina Code Conference (49:43)

Links

* Therapy360 - Website, Facebook, Instagram

Carolina Code Cast is a podcast that covers a wide variety of topics in the coding and data space. Learn more about this year’s Carolina Code Conference at carolina.codes.

Developed with assistance from Heard Media.

Episode Summary

This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with Don Sullivan, Senior Software Engineer at Simply Binary. During the episode, Barry and Don talk about traveling around the USA with a travel trailer while working remote as a software engineer, trying tacos in every state, family fun with uranium mines, a unique self-taught path into a programming career, getting into apologetics and some diversified investment advice. WARNING! Listening while hungry may be risky.

“There’s an ethos about the food truck that says, this is what I would make sitting at my house, as a person who lives here. If I didn’t run a business, this is the way I would make tacos for my family.” - Don Sullivan

Episode Notes

Highlights from this week’s episode include:

* Less Travelled Roads to Programming (0:59)

* Five Majors at Clemson in 2 Years…maximizing school rules (5:17)

* Surviving The Beacon after 20 years in Washington state (11:49)

* Travelling Around the US in a Trailer, Sampling Tacos & Food Trucks (16:18)

* Uranium Mining: Fun for the Whole Family (28:50)

* Starlink, Working Remote and Camper Stories (43:10)

* Discovering Apologetics (55:31)

* Investing, Coin Collecting and Precious Metals (1:00:16)

Links

* SimplyBinary

* Thousand Trails

* The Schafer Caynon Trail

* Road to Hana

* The Beacon Drive-In

* Vasquez Seafood & Po-Boy in Covington, Lousiana for the ultimate Mufaletta

* Starlink

* Defy the Grid

Carolina Code Cast is a podcast that covers a wide variety of topics in the coding and data space. Learn more about this year’s Carolina Code Conference at carolina.codes.

Developed with assistance from Heard Media.

Episode Summary

This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with Charles Nutter, Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. During the episode, Barry and Charles talk about his globe trotting conference tours talking about JRuby including Okinawa, Taipei, Brussels, San Diego, Detroit, Atlanta and of course Greenville as we get deep into JRuby and the JVM, new features, future plans and how you can get involved. We’ll also discuss his upcoming wedding (congrats!), life in Minnesota and bourbon too!

“I’ve always want to do an implementation of Go that would run on the JVM.” - Charles Nutter

Episodes Notes

Highlights from this week’s episode include:

* Promoting JRuby: San Diego, Taiwan, Brussels (0:46)

* Minnesota Life and Wedding Planning (4:09)

* Travel to RubyConf Taiwan (8:20)

* Memorable Conference Trips (11:39)

* New Features of JRuby and the Java Virtual Machine/JVM (16:37)

* The Native Future of JRuby (25:12)

* Android Development with JRuby (32:23)

* JVM with Zero Warmup Time (34:31)

* Upcoming Conferences and Bourbon Recommendations (39:41)

Links

* Charles on… Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky

* JRuby on… Website, Github, Matrix, Twitter/X, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Facebook

* Bringing Ruby to the JVM: Making the Impossible, Possible (Keynote)

* Red Hat

* RubyConf Taiwan in Taipei

* Devnexus

* RubyConf San Diego

* Ruboto

* FOSDEM 2024 in Brussels - European OSS Conference

* RailsConf in Detroit

* Ruby Kagi in Okinawa, Japan

Carolina Code Cast is a podcast that covers a wide variety of topics in the coding and data space. Learn more about this year’s Carolina Code Conference at carolina.codes.

Developed with assistance from Heard Media.

Episode Summary

This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with Lelia King, Executive Director of Build Carolina. During the episode, Barry and Lelia talk about Build Carolina, its multiple programs such as the Carolina Code School, the Develop Carolina Apprenticeship Program, SC Codes, her journey to getting here, history with The Iron Yard and what’s involved with supporting the tech community. Check it out!

“When you really break it down, this is just another puzzle that we're trying to solve.” - Lelia King

Episode Notes

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

* The Iron Yard to Carolina Code School (01:51)

* Student Stories, Career Changes and Cohorts (08:24)

* The Develop Carolina Apprenticeship Program (15:16)

* MVP Studio (23:19)

* Supporting the Tech Community (32:18)

* Raising your hand to help (40:24)

* State of the Tech Talent Ecosystem (51:24)

Links

* Lelia King on LinkedIn

* Build Carolina

* Carolina Code School

* Develop Carolina

* SC Codes

Carolina Code Cast is a podcast that covers a wide variety of topics in the coding and data space. Learn more about this year’s Carolina Code Conference at carolina.codes.

Developed with assistance from Heard Media.

Episode Summary

This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with Hunter Hodnett, CTO and Co-founder at Chipp.AI. During the episode, Barry and Hunter talk about his journey from San Francisco to consulting with startups in Austin’s snowpocalypse, starting a meetup and getting involved Greenville as well as co-founding an AI company based out of Fargo, North Dakota. There’s even a brief visit to New York along the way!

“I love being surrounded by people with that zero to one mindset. There’s so much bravery that comes with taking a big leap into the unknown and making it up as you go.” - Hunter Hodnett

Episode Notes

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

* Chipp.AI’s origin and pivot (1:07)

* Vectors and Chatbots (5:07)

* San Franscisco to Austin to Greenville (8:37)

* Fractional CTO consulting with startup MVPs in Austin (21:33)

* Starting a Meetup in Greenville (27:23)

* NEXT Upstate & Networking by Helping Out (37:15)

* Fargo…not the movie (47:46)

Links

* Hunter Hodnett on LinkedIn

* Chipp.ai

* NEXT Upstate

* HackGreenville

Carolina Code Cast is a podcast that covers a wide variety of topics in the coding and data space. Learn more about this year’s Carolina Code Conference at carolina.codes.

Developed with assistance from Heard Media.

Episode Summary

This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with Joey Loman, Shopmaster at SynergyMill. During this episode, Barry and Joey talk about the building things, fabricating prototypes, 3D printing, robotics, Ham radio, dialing into Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs), making TV studios, running telecom companies, hacking stories (allegedly) and community building.

“I have one expectation of people who work with me. Show up and don’t do worse than last time. Incremental improvement.” - Joey Loman

Episode Notes

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

* SynergyMill - Fab Lab, Makerspace, Community Workshop (0:47)

* The World of 3D Printing (8:04)

* TV Studio and Telcom War Stories (15:20)

* Dialing into BBSs (23:15)

* h@Ck3r stories…allegedly (27:52)

* Getting into Ham Radio (33:27)

* Robotics too…why not? (42:59)

* Community: Beer & Napkins, Hack Greenville Labs and SynergyMill (45:13)

Links

* Joey Loman on LinkedIn

* SynergyMill

* SynergyMill on Facebook

* HackGreenville Labs

* Beer & Napkins Meetup

Carolina Code Cast is a podcast that covers a wide variety of topics in the coding and data space. Learn more about this year’s Carolina Code Conference at carolina.codes.

Developed with assistance from Heard Media.

Episode Summary

This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with Christina Roberts, Chairwoman of the Board at the Agile Learning Institute. During this episode, Barry and Christina talk about opening technology careers via mentorship from the Agile Learning Institute, the Persevere program helping people learn to code from prison without an internet connection, local Women Who Code meetups, qualities of great programmers, the value of internships and Christina’s remarkable backstory. You won’t want to miss this!

“What that experience really taught me, being in nursing homes, seeing people's experience at the end of their life, you know, what they had wished they had done, what they're glad that they did, what really mattered. It was never a job. Not one single time.” - Christina Roberts

Episode Notes

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

* Agile Learning Institute - Mission of Mentorship (0:52)

* Persevere: Learning to code from Prison (5:27)

* Getting involved with a Women Who Code Meetup (10:37)

* Going through Build Carolina’s Carolina Code School (16:39)

* Curiosity and Persistence (23:42)

* Changing the World with Code (27:17)

* SELECT * FROM internships WHERE exists = true (30:19)

* Making Christina: On your own at age 15 in South Texas (43:38)

Links

* Christina Roberts on LinkedIn

* Agile Learning Institute

* Persevere

* Women Who Code

* Women Who Code - Greenville

* Build Carolina

* Coagio Consulting

Carolina Code Cast is a podcast that covers a wide variety of topics in the coding and data space. Learn more about this year’s Carolina Code Conference at carolina.codes.

Developed with assistance from Heard Media.

Episode Summary

This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with Jake Hennett, Software Engineer with Lima One Capital. During this episode, Barry and Jake talk about all sorts of things from “No Code” solutions with MuleSoft, Create React apps, the value in learning unpopular things, software in the finance world, balancing work, family and education, focus and motivation for developers, as well as the complexities involve with making good technology decisions where everybody buys in. Check it out!

“Nope, we tried though. This is the one we want. Everybody worked together to come to the decision. It works better for team integration. It works better for morale.” - Jake Hennett

Episode Notes

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

* MuleSoft for “No Code” APIs, Create React (1:12)

* Learn unpopular things…BPM, COBOL (9:05)

* Fun with Finance (17:38)

* Finishing that Masters Degree: Theory and Practice (21:42)

* Next.js and Psychological Buy In on Technology Decisions (28:59)

* Holiday Plans, Family Dynamics at Work (37:38)

* Late Nights and Learning Hungry (43:55)

* Focus, Context Switching and the Art of Motivation (48:47)

* Assembler and efficiency constraints (59:04)

Links

* MuleSoft

* Create React App

* Next.js

* Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Carolina Code Cast is a podcast that covers a wide variety of topics in the coding and data space. Learn more about this year’s Carolina Code Conference at carolina.codes.

Developed with assistance from Heard Media.