Eat Sleep Code Podcast

Ed and Eric Bishard cover the latest news in the development community including: Linting, Ad-Blocking, NativeScript, and Angular Migrations.

On this episode of Eat Sleep Code, guest Julie Lerman talks about the Software Developer mindset. How do developers operate in an atmosphere of constantly changing technology while still maintaining legacy code, learning, teaching, striving to be an expert and shipping product? Julie shares her experiences with work-life-balance, travel, and mentoring. We discuss tooling and tech including: Mac vs. PC, FoxPro to Aurelia, and much, much, more.

http://developer.telerik.com/content-types/podcast/software-developer-mindset/

00:51 EC: Hello, and welcome to Eat Sleep Code, the official Telerik podcast. I’m your host, Ed Charbeneau, and with me today is Julie Lerman. Hi, Julie.

01:00 Julie Lerman: Hi, Ed.

01:01 EC: And today, we’re gonna talk about the mental processes of a software developer. So we’ve got a little bit of a soft skills talk lined up. But first, let me introduce Julie. Julie is a Pluralsight author, you may know her from the Entity Framework or data part of software development. She’s an author of several Microsoft books on that topic. And she is also the author of the Data Points column on MSDN magazine. You will frequently see her at many conferences. I personally had the honor of seeing her do a keynote at CodeStock a couple of years ago, and really enjoyed that. And you can find her website at thedatafarm.com. And she’s also newly the Microsoft regional director. So with that said, Julie, did I miss anything? Would you like to add anything to that?

Find the full transcript on Telerik Developer Network

http://developer.telerik.com/content-types/podcast/software-developer-mindset/

Ed and Sam Basu cover the latest news in the development community including: Angular 2, NativeScript snacks, ASP.NET Core RTM, and Windows CLI.

http://developer.telerik.com/content-types/podcast/developer-digest-6/

00:01 Ed Charbeneau: This podcast is part of the Telerik Developer Network. Telerik, by Progress.

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00:18 EC: Hello and welcome to Eat Sleep Code, the official Telerik podcast. I’m your host, Ed Charbeneau, and today my co-host for the Telerik Developer Digest episode will be Sam Basu. Hey, Sam.

00:32 Sam Basu: Hey, Ed. How you’re doing?

00:35 EC: Good. We have a busy week with the Telerik Developer relations. Brian is out, so thanks for filling in for him.

00:43 SB: No problem.

00:46 EC: So, I’m gonna kick things off a little differently this time. We have a really cool program going, called All Your Snacks Are Belong to Us. This is a NativeScript DevRel initiative. So, the NativeScriptSnacks website is this really cool place where you can go get these five minute or less videos on how to do something really awesome in NativeScript. So there’s a campaign going to get people out there and submit some videos of your own, and we have some cool sunglasses and stuff that we’re giving away. So I asked Jen Looper, who is in charge of this really cool contest, or whatever you wanna call it, to just kinda give us a little info on what the contest is all about and how to get involved. So I’m gonna hand it over to Jen, and then we’ll get back to the show in a moment.

01:53 Jen Looper: Hi, everyone. This is Jen from Developer Relations and I’m happy to announce a fun summer program that we’ve launched on the NativeScript community Slack channel. First of all, if you aren’t on that channel, you can join by visiting NativeScript.org, clicking Community, and then Slack Channel and requesting an invitation. And we have a lot of fun times on that channel, I’ll tell you. Second, we’ve launched a bounty program from within that Slack channel which involves submitting any short video tutorials or code snippets for NativeScript apps. So this summer, if you submit a snack, what I call a snack, to NativeScriptSnacks.com, I will personally ship you a pair of NativeScript sunglasses. And these are really nice, comfortable, good-looking glasses. You’re gonna need them during the dog days of summer. So please, visit NativeScriptSnacks.com, submit a snack and tell us all about it on Slack. Thanks a lot.

02:43 EC: Okay, Sam, we’re back with the next topic at hand. We had an article by Peter Filipov this week, and the title of the article is “Every ASP.NET web developer can be a mobile developer”. So Peter’s discussing the similarities between ASP.NET web forms and NativeScript. So, Sam, what’s your take on this comparison? Is this something that’s really similar, or how were those similarities broke down, what do you think?

03:21 SB: Yes, I think so. But before we get into it, just maybe a quick introduction. Peter Filipov is actually our colleague on the Developer Relations team. He comes from a very technical background. He used to be one of the PMs in our ASP.NET developer tools division for Telerik, and he has come over from Sofia and now he is a PM and a DevRel for Sitefinity, so he really comes from a very diverse and technical background. And I think what he’s doing, and he’s got a couple of articles this week, he’s trying to draw some parallels between the world that he comes from of ASP.NET and Sitefinity, and bringing that experience over to NativeScript, which is our cross-platform way of making Native mobile apps. And I think he makes some very convincing points.

Find the full transcript on Telerik Developer Network

http://developer.telerik.com/content-types/podcast/developer-digest-6/

Are you running Three Amigos conversations for each work item/user story your team does? If not, start now. Seriously. Jim Holmes shares his advice on using the Three Amigos approach. http://developer.telerik.com/featured/all-in-with-the-three-amigos/

00:01 Ed Charbeneau: This podcast is part of the Telerik Developer Network. Telerik, by Progress.

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00:08 EC: Hi. This is Ed Charbeneau with Eat Sleep Code and I just wanted to let you guys know that we are trying to make the show better. So we've set up a survey at developer.telerik.com/survey and we're collecting feedback from listeners to see what we can do to make the show better for you. So please stop by developer.telerik.com/survey and fill it out. We'd appreciate it. We've also got 10 licenses to Telerik products and T-shirts that we'll be giving away to 10 lucky winners. Thanks for your help.

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00:53 EC: Hello and welcome to Eat Sleep Code, the official Telerik podcast. I'm your host Ed Charbeneau and with me today is Jim Holmes. How you doing, Jim?

01:01 Jim Holmes: I'm doing very well.

01:04 EC: And today, we're gonna be talking about going "All In With The Three Amigos." We'll explain that in a moment. Let's start with a little bit about you, Jim. Tell us a little bit about yourself.

01:19 JH: So let's see. I will avoid going back to the dawn of time when I was born. I've been around various corners of software delivery coming up on 30 years now, so I'm an old fart. But I've done a lot of different roles, PM, developer, have been customer relations, I've done support. My focus really for kind of the last 10 or 15 years has been diving deeper and deeper into getting good quality out of software delivery teams, and have really been focusing a lot on kind of a human communication and how we get all of the hardest stuff, which is not the technology, but communication, collaboration, clarity, and what we're really trying to build and how to do it well.

02:15 JH: I'm currently an executive consultant with Pillar Technologies. That's a midwest consulting firm, although we've got offices around other places. I've got a side company, Guidepost Systems, that lets me also do different types of engagements. Used to work for Telerik. Was there about three and a half years working with the awesome folks on Test Studio. I was both the evangelist for all of that time and then for about a year, a year and a half, I also was director of engineering for that, and got to work with the teams in Austin and Sophia. So, Telerik is near and dear to my heart even after the merger with Progress, I still fondly think of... Gosh, I guess it's been about a 10-year association with Telerik. So, that's it for me.

03:11 EC: Well, thanks for sharing that with us, Jim. We appreciate the Telerik love, definitely appreciate your input on the Test Studio Project over the years. It's quite the useful tool that... I don't get enough chance myself to get involved and talk about. Really wish we still had one of the Test Studio evangelist spots in our team of evangelist folks.

03:44 JH: Right, right. It's a wonderful tool and I was lucky. They made the evangelist spot for me. When I started talking with Telerik years ago about coming on board, it was because I'd seen Test Studio. And it's not the perfect tool for everybody, but the thing was, it solved so many problems that I was struggling with on a regular basis. I fell in love with it and was doing the right sorts of things. You can have tools that kinda lead you off down a very bad path, and a few months after you've dived into this tool, it turns out that all of a sudden you're in the midst of a whole bunch of pain because it wasn't doing maintainable solutions, and...

Find the full transcript on Telerik Developer Network http://developer.telerik.com/featured/all-in-with-the-three-amigos/

Brian and Ed cover the latest news in the development community including: JavaScript, CQRS and REST, .NET CLI, and Open Source stats.

Jared Faris dives deep into the near future of the web with ES2016, Web Standards, Services Workers, and HTTP/2. It's an epic web episode you don't want to miss.

Brian and Ed cover the latest news in the development community including: Bots-bots-bots, .NET Core RC2, Project.json, and NativeScript.

http://developer.telerik.com/content-types/podcast/developer-digest-4/

E: Hello and welcome to Eat Sleep Code, the official Telerik podcast. I’m your host, Ed Charbeneau, and with me today is my co-host, Brian Rinaldi. Brian, how’s it going?

B: Hello, it’s going great.

E: And today’s another Developer Digest episode, and we have some great articles that we collected from the web to share with you guys, and we post those on our Telerik Developer Network, and we’re gonna give you our commentary on those and then you’re welcome to go find those on our website, and read them or sign up for the newsletter. So, let’s kick things off with our first article by the always amazing Jen Looper. And she’s got an article called bots! bots! bots! And it’s pretty much about bots. So, like Microsoft, and Google, and Facebook, at their big keynotes this year, have all come out with their own bot frameworks. And it seems like 2016 is the year of the bot, right?

B: Absolutely, in fact, I talked to somebody… This was a PhoneGap Day earlier in the year. They were telling me before things had really taken off, they were like, “Bots are gonna be the thing.” I guess they were right. So, it just really seems like it’s taken off. Every company is releasing a bot platform, people are writing bots left and right. I think it’s really cool. I think the reason probably is it’s easy to interact with. It’s just natural to interact with a bot if it’s done well, right?

E: Yeah. In my opinion, I think some of the relativeness of bots and why they’re kind of making a comeback, and I say making a comeback, ’cause we’ve had bots in other chat platforms for years, but those things were always command driven, right? You always had to slash some command and then some parameters for that command and the bot may throw an emoji out or something. But now, we’ve got this machine learning from all the big software manufactures and it’s a lot easier to parse through natural language and figure out what people are talking about, what they’re discussing, and less reliance on the specific keywords to make a bot do something. You can kind of glean what the conversation’s about or what the question was, and the big companies like Microsoft, Google and Facebook, are making APIs to help facilitate that stuff.

B: Yeah, totally. And on that note, all of this blends together with not just bots that you type to, but also ones you speak to. Things like Amazon Echo or Google have their Google… I forgot what they called their one that they released at I/O, or announced there anyway [editor’s note: Google Home]. So, I actually have an article coming up about writing for the Echo. In that case, the commands are spoken. In the end, there’s really not a lot of difference because the commands are spoken but then translated into text that I then parse and respond to. And then I send back text and that text is just spoken. So, it’s effectively the same kind of thing as these bots, but I think you’ve noticed companies starting to add those voice assistants into just about every device that they have, and people like to use them. So, it’s one of those things that I’m always kind of skeptical of the next big thing, like wearables and VR and things like that. I’m a little skeptical that those are really gonna be quick to catch on. Wearables is obviously a market but it’s somewhat small. And VR still hasn’t proven that it’s necessarily useful to me. But this one, I think it’s so simple to interact with, and the ability to either just naturally type or naturally speak makes it just a no brainer.

Find the full transcript on Telerik Developer Network http://developer.telerik.com/content-types/podcast/developer-digest-4/

Brian and Ed cover the latest news in the development community including: Slackbots, security tips, spreadsheets, and NativeScript.

On this episode of Eat Sleep Code, Jeff Fritz from Microsoft talks about the .NET Core RC2 release. Changes in the CLI, package.json, and the Standard Library are discussed.

http://developer.telerik.com/featured/net-core-goes-rc2/

0:00:00 Ed Charbeneau: This podcast is part of the Telerik Developer Network. Telerik, a progress company.

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0:00:11 EC: Hello, and welcome to Eat Sleep Code, the official Telerik podcast. I’m your host, Ed Charbeneau, and with me today is Sam Basu and Jeff Fritz. Morning guys. It’s Friday the 13th, how you doing?

0:00:24 Sam Basu: Morning.

0:00:25 Jeffrey Fritz: I’m terrified. What’s gonna go wrong today? Look out.

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0:00:31 EC: Now, I’ve got Sam here from Telerik. Sam, why don’t you give yourself a brief introduction for folks, let everybody know what you do?

0:00:40 SB: Sure thing. So just like Ed, I’m a developer advocate with Telerik. Advocates are evangelists, we really don’t do anything, we just talk about stuff and try to shy away from the really hard stuff. No, I’m just kidding. We try to stay on top of technology and especially on the Microsoft stacks, so I think it’s great to have Jeff on with us today, I think we’ve got some big changes coming and it’s exciting. So that’s me.

0:01:06 EC: And Jeff Fritz, you’re working with Microsoft now, why don’t you give everybody a quick intro as well.

0:01:12 JF: Yeah, hey there. I’m Jeff Fritz, I do work for Microsoft, I’m part of the ASP dot NET Developer Outreach Team. It’s our job to put together some of the content, manage some of the social interactions, the blog posts, the videos that you’re gonna see and use to learn more about ASP dot NET core dot NET Core. And I also manage the ASP dot NET web forums team. So I do a little bit of everything there for Microsoft.

0:01:41 EC: It sounds like you’re a really busy guy over at Microsoft these days especially with all of the new things happening with ASP dot NET and dot NET Core, so we wanted to have you on the show today to talk about those huge changes and the big release coming up. So why don’t we go ahead and start things off with just an overview, I guess, of what’s happening in dot NET land.

Find the full transcript on Telerik Developer Network

http://developer.telerik.com/featured/net-core-goes-rc2/

On this episode of Eat Sleep Code, guest Jen Looper talks about what happened at the latest Angular conference, ng-conf. Later on the show, C# MVP Peter Ritchie and Sam Basu talk about the future of C# and cross platform development.