Coding Blocks

Coding Blocks

By Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw, Joe ZackBusinessTechnologyEducationHow ToCareers
Download on the App Store

Coding Blocks episodes

  • All Your Database Are Belong to Us
    Part one of our two part database podcast starts with choosing the RDBMS (Relational Database Management System) and what to do when you run into deficiencies in that particular database system. First and foremost, what’s with the title?!  Are these guys grammatically challenged?  If that was your first thought, then you should check out this link: […]
    1 hr
  • All Your Database Are Belong to Us

    Part one of our two part database podcast starts with choosing the RDBMS (Relational Database Management System) and what to do when you run into deficiencies in that particular database system.

    First and foremost, what's with the title?!  Are these guys grammatically challenged?  If that was your first thought, then you should check out this link:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us

    Others who have been around a little while (longer than us three 21 year olds), we hope you got a kick out of the title.

    Podcast News
    • Article on creating a database schema for a product catalog:
      http://www.codingblocks.net/programming/database-schema-for-multiple-types-of-products/
    • Article from Eric Clippert
      Why Dynamic Languages are Hard to Maintain
    • We'll be attending Atlanta Build Guild, Monday July 14th
      http://atlanta.buildguild.org
    • MVC vs Webforms question from @brocbeat 
      https://twitter.com/brocbeat/status/486221052108742656
    • We always keep detailed show notes @RajSoTweet
    • Joe's latest gaming obsession
      Divinity Original Sin
    • Steam Streaming
    • Discussion about our experience with the Xamarin Meetup we attended a couple weeks ago
      • Hosted by Bluetube, Inc. - excellent content
      • Roger Peters @smartyp  - excellent presentation of how he took an app from Java on Android and ported it to Windows and iOS with Xamarin
        Word Search Little Books (search in your preferred app store)
        Matchingo (search in your preferred app store)
      • Bluetube Inc will be hosting their first Xamarin meetup in Cincinnati, OH this Tuesday, July 15th
        http://blog.bluetubeinteractive.com/2014/06/inaugural-cincinnati-xamarin-mobile-net-users-group-meetup-july-15th.html
      • We have 14 ... COUNT EM...14 FIVE STAR REVIEWS in iTunes!!!  While we're thrilled, more would make us even happier!  Please do leave us a review in iTunes here:
        http://www.codingblocks.net/itunes
        • Special thanks to PJR_ATL and a3electroniks for our most recent iTunes reviews.  We really do appreciate them.
          • Topics
          • How much should a developer know about databases in general?
          • How do you pick a database when you're starting a project?
            • MySQL
            • PostgreSQL
              • http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/MySQL_vs_PostgreSQL
              • Microsoft SQL Server
              • Oracle
              • DB2
              • No SQL databases
              • Do you hack solutions to deal with the deficiencies of the particular database system you chose?
                • Trees and hierarchies in various RDBMS engines
                • Joe Celko's SQL Trees and Hierarchies book
                • Nested Set Model on Wikipedia
                  • Resources
                  • Need to know your IP Address?
                    WtfIsMyIp.com
                  • Excellent book on understanding all the intricate details of C# 5 the language
                    C# 5 Unleashed
                  • Notepad++ Poor Man's T-SQL Formatter
                    http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
                    http://architectshack.com/PoorMansTSqlFormatter.ashx
                    • Tips of the Week
                    • Joe's tip - SQL Search
                      Redgate's SQL Search
                    • Allen's tip - Ctrl + , for Navigate To
                      http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2014/02/01/6-top-tips-for-visual-studio-2013.aspx
                    • Michael's tip - HTML 5 game creator
                      https://www.scirra.com/construct2
                      • 1 hr
                    • What programmer do you want to be?
                      “Water Cooler” episode talking about sweet sugary C# kisses, JavaScript as a first language, T-shaped developers, how to get addicted to drugs and…Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Points of Interest Keep the keys! Go follow @trentapple and check his site out at www.trentapple.com! A year’s worth of tech podcasts! from @patrikdahlen NativeScript – Cross […]
                      1 hr 9 min
                    • Design Patterns Part 1 – You Create Me!
                      This week we’re tackling the first section of seminal Design Patterns book: Creational Patterns. We discuss factories of factories, “bullet hell” games, pathological liars, and Allen’s lack of voice. Big thanks to @rajsotweet for calling us out and getting us motivated to record! Points of Interest .NET Framework 4.5.2 is out! ASP vNext Awesome stats […]
                      1 hr 38 min
                    • Design Patterns Part 1

                      This week we're tackling the first section of seminal Design Patterns book: Creational Patterns.

                       

                      We discuss factories of factories, "bullet hell" games, pathological liars, and Allen's lack of voice.

                       

                      Big thanks to @rajsotweet for calling us out and getting us motivated to record!

                       

                      1 hr 38 min
                    • C# 6 and Roslyn – Pour Some Sugar On Me
                      This week we’re taking pot shots from the peanut gallery! We talk about new features in C# 6. What we like, what we love…and binary literals. We also struggle to define Roslyn and BONUS! poetry reading from Michael Outlaw! Points of Interest Build Keynote in 7 minutes – via @patrikdahlen Allen owes the world a […]
                      1 hr 34 min
                    • C# 6 and Roslyn

                      This week we're taking pot shots from the peanut gallery!

                       

                      We talk about new features in C# 6. What we like, what we love...and binary literals.

                       

                      We also struggle to define Roslyn and BONUS! poetry reading from Michael Outlaw!

                      1 hr 34 min
                    • Aspectacular with Vlad Hrybok

                      You down with AOP? This week we're talking with Vlad Hrybok about his spectacular Aspect Oriented Programming Framework: Aspectacular.

                       

                      Highlights include lots of Design Patterns, Acronyms, Buzzwords and...Duff Beer?

                      1 hr 23 min
                    • Aspectacular with Vlad Hrybok – You down with AOP?
                      You down with AOP? This week we’re talking with Vlad Hrybok about his spectacular Aspect Oriented Framework: Aspectacular. Highlights include lots of Design Patterns, Acronyms, Buzzwords and…Duff Beer? ChangeLog Interesting debate about SOLID principles An attempt at a completely SOLID implementation of TicTacToe Great feedback on /r/csharp Interesting viewpoint from an anti-craftsman on dotnetrocks, great […]
                      1 hr 23 min

                    About Coding Blocks

                    From the publisher's feed

                    Become the best software developer you can be

                    More shows like Coding Blocks

                    The Daily by The New York Times

                    The Daily

                    111,708 Listeners