Confessions of Angry Programmers Podcast

Join us for our first episode of The Confessions of Angry Programmers Podcast! In this episode we talk about the goals of the podcast along with the episode features:

• Dogfooding: David discusses what frustrates him about the Amazon Fire TV Netflix app.
• WTF Were They Thinking?: Woody discusses the lack of a public roadmap for Visual Studio Code.

Join us for Episode of The Confessions of Angry Programmers podcast! In this episode David and Woody talk about:

• Dogfooding: David talks about issues & feature ideas for Microsoft PowerPoint.
• WTF Were They Thinking?: Woody discusses the recent Azure and Amazon Web Services television ads.

We are joined by our guest Ted Neward. Ted discusses the switch from developer to manager, speaking and more!

Ted Neward is sometimes referred to as "The Dude of Software", owing to both his remarkable (some say frightening) resemblance to the Jeff Bridges character from "The Big Lebowski", and his ordination as a Dudeist Minister of the Church of the Latter-Day Dude, but he's also been called the "Dr. Gregory House of Software", owing to his tendency to pull no punches when talking about software and how to deliver it successfully. He's comfortable answering to either title, as well as a few others. He's familiar with more programming languages than most people knew existed, and hasn't found one yet that he couldn't turn into a 'mission-critical' application when asked

• Presentation Patterns: Techniques for Crafting Better Presentations
• David McCarter's Books on Amazon

The next episode will feature Dogfooding and WTF Where They Thinking along with a guest.

Join us for Episode 1 of The Confessions of Angry Programmers Podcast! In this episode David and Woody talk about:

• Dogfooding: Woody discusses the Mint.com website.
• WTF Were They Thinking?: David discusses frustrations when contracting.

• Mint.com
• Visual Studio Code
• David's Speaking Schedule

The next episode will feature Dogfooding and WTF Where They Thinbking along with our first guest Bob Reselman.

Join us for Episode 2 of The Confessions of Angry Programmers Podcast! In this episode David and Woody talk about:

• Dogfooding: David discusses challenges using Adobe Cloud products.
• WTF Were They Thinking?: Woody discusses Google Chrome updates.

We are joined by our first guest, Bob Reselman. Bob discusses coming apart in the age of automation.

Bob Reselman is a nationally-known software developer, system architect and technical writer/journalist. Bob has written four books on computer programming and dozens of articles about topics related to software development technologies and techniques, as well as the culture of software development. Bob lives in Los Angeles. In addition to his work on in a variety of aspects of software development and DevOps, Bob is working on a book about the impact of automation on human employment.

• Google Chrome
• Adobe Cloud
• Coming Apart: https://devops.com/coming-apart-in-the-age-of-automation/
• Impacts: https://devops.com/automation-impact-cultures/
• Thinking about the Future: https://devops.com/thinking-about-the-future-in-the-age-of-automation/
• What do we do when everything is automated: https://devops.com/what-do-we-do-everything-automated/
• Bob's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCttfzwxle9zP25q8DY60fdw/videos

The next episode will feature Dogfooding and WTF Where They Thinbking along with  guest Nuri Halperin.

In this episode David and Woody talk about:

• Dogfooding: David revisits the Netflix app on Amazon Fire TV.
• WTF Were They Thinking?: David discusses backward software practices.

We are joined by our guest Nuri Halperin. Nuri discusses the "The Done Kind Of Done".

Nuri Halperin is a software architect and speaker. He helps companies develop scalable systems, websites, and business applications. He's been turning projects into success stories for over 2 decades. Nuri specializes in Azure and MongoDB. He was founding CTO of online-dating pioneer JDate.com building out the platform from scratch and propelling it from start-up to hugely profitable cash cow in the portfolio of the company. He architected and implemented multi-lingual, multinational portal for millions of members of a global nutrition company which is responsible for large share of company revenue. He's been helping companies shift their practice to deliver value early by embracing DevOps, cloud, and agile methodologies.

The next episode will feature guest Ted Neward. Have a comment or suggestion? Want to be a guest on the show? Click here to contact us.