Extroverted Developer

This week, Ben and I discuss why we haven’t had shows recently. A new venture called MapItPrices, and the news that Xamarin Studios has ported Android to C#

Show Notes

• MapItPrices
• Where’s the cheap beer?
• NYC Mentorship Program Accepting applications NOW!
• Xamarin ported Android to C# and mono

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ExtrovertedDeveloper11-WereNotDeadYet

This week Ben and I chat with former Microsoftie turned Standup Comic, Toby Muresianu about careers in Software.

Show Notes

• Toby the Comic
• My picker is broken
• Toby’s twitter feed

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ExtrovertedDeveloper10-TobyMuresianu

This week Ben and I chat during a CityMaps party about what it takes to be a computer programmer. How do you get into this field, and most importantly can anybody do it?

Show Notes

• Extra Creditz has an amazing wealth of discussion topics
• http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/so-you-want-to-be-a-developer-part-1
• http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/mailbag-4 (ideas are worthless)
• http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/commentary/why-you-should-learn-how-code

Fun Pics

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ExtrovertedDeveloper9

In this Episode Ben and I talk about why there wasn’t a podcast last week. (hint: we shipped a ton of new software)

• Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It

• The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
• Ninja Blocks
• If This Then That
• Yahoo Pipes

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ExtrovertedDeveloper8

This week Ben and I talk with Basho developer Sean Cribbs about NoSQL and how they write software.

Show Notes

• Riak
• Amazon’s Dynamo Paper
• Riak is really good for cloud storage
• LAMP pretty much scales horizontally vs Microsoft’s big iron approach
• Voxer is probably the biggest deployment of Riak
• How do you work effectively remotely?
• Chatrooms:Hipchat, Campfire and Hubot
• Agile Zen for ensuring you have a pull based workflow
• Differences in culture re: work hours between west and east coast
• Distributed version control workflow
• Sean’s Coder Wall
• Common pitfalls when moving from SVN to git
• GitHub: Code comments start to matter more when they’re public :)
• GitHub Flow
• How GitHub Uses GitHub to Build GitHub
• conflict between Open Source vs Proprietary features
• How do you do Continuous Integration with GitHub?

Pro Tips

• Sean: git submodules, or How to use github to API documentation
• Ben: Dropbox feature: Packrat and Events feed

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ExtrovertedDeveloper#7-SeanCribbs

This week it’s just Ben and I riffing in the new CityMaps HQ with our new recording equipment.

Show Notes

• What we learned in podcasting
• My first voice over
• How do you construct software? Software engineering processes.
• Language doesn’t matter as proven by perl (Is Perl Better than a Randomly Generated Programming Language?)
• Polyglut vs single language shops
• Starbucks does not use two phase commit (including my revolutionary idea for them to fix the lines)

Then Ben and I kind of just BS for a while ‘cause it’s fun :)

Shamesless Name Drops

• Toby Muresianu
• Robert Scoble
• Scott Hanselman

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Extroverted Developer #6

In this show we talk about VsVim the hugely popular free extension that

adds Vim bindings to Visual Studio 2010 (written in F#).We talk about Vim

vs Emacs a bit.We then talk about social coding and github, as well as talk

a lot about Stackoverflow and Jared’s rise to, at one time, #4 in the SO

ranking.

On today’s show we discussion SOPA/PIPA protests in NYC, as well as Jenn Day joins us as a special guest with the business side (marketing) perspective on programmers and startups

Show Notes

• Citymaps
• NY Tech Meetup SOPA/PIPA Protest
• Stack Exchange Infographic
• Visual Studio Achievements
• REAMDE: A Novel

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Episode 2 - Jenn Day

This is the first episode of a new series Tech and the City Extroverted Developer hosted by Jim Wallace and Ben Gundersen.

Being that this is the first podcast I’ve ever recorded and produced, there’s probably audio issues, additional ums and ahs that I didn’t edit out correctly and other issues with the quality in general.   Hope to fix these as we gain more experience in this medium.

Show Notes:

• Ready Player One

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Episode #1 - Hello World