Chris House is our special guest and his job is to take care of all the things that you never think about. What happens when devs don't think about monitoring? What is "ops" like when people don't talk to each other? Spoiler alert: it can suck, but Chris knows how to fix it. If NT 4 is working out great for you then maybe isn't the episode for you.

Also: Jorge hates Lee's new bag. Jorge will do your out-of-office emails for 6 months if you win our new contest. What it takes to earn the right to work in your underwear.

Mentioned on the show:

Managed services
Accoutrement
Nagios
OpsView
Edge and Silverlight
Epic
NYSE suspends trading due to system failure
Docker
OutKast - So Fresh, So Clean
Netflix Chaos Monkey
Puppet
Chef
.NET 5.0 everywhere
East Kentwood's Amiga-based air conditioning system.  

Topo Designs  

Do you like horror movies? Wait, who cares? I'll tell you who cares: it's Alex Jantz and he has a specific set of skills. And by that I mean data analysis. Are you going to "visit a bedroom" tonight or will you be left "shopping for tires?" Alex will let you know. Also: Is "Time to Hadoop" part of your relationship game? And a Release Mode first as the guest turns the tables on game time by challenging Lee and Jorge!

Christian Rudder
OK Trends
Hadoop
Third-wave Ska

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We’ve got developer, presenter, and conference organizer Jason Sich! He talks about writing software for a company that cares about … software? We get into language choices, the issues surrounding organizing conferences and speakers, and really a lot about the kind of things that developers decide to put up with (or not) when they choose their career path.

Mentioned in this episode:

Flask
Node Dev Meetup
GR Dev Day
GR Dev Night
ESLint
Babel
gofmt

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It's automated testing with Pete Richardson! The gang talks end-to-end testing nirvana to make smoother days and restful nights. Also: Plenty of tooling is discussed and we refrain from saying "boogers" until about minute 18. Lee gets in a jab at Eclipse. If you don't like Javascript maybe you should try VBScript ca. 2001. Jorge likes manually allocating data to processor registers.

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Big software projects are hard to estimate. Turns out, the same goes for buildings. Structural engineer Erica Flannery talks about estimates, budgets, and how buildings really get made. Hint: when a mommy and daddy building really love each other... If you think it's going to be a dry episode, it starts getting a "chippy" early, a little punchy at 30 minutes, and by 45 minutes it's an all out free-for-all. Also: Jorge says code coverage sucks. Metaphors are rarely perfect, especially when engineers are involved. Jorge: "I wasn't actually IN the dumpster" Erica: "Just your face?"

Picks of the week:
* Erica: Weber gas grills
* Jorge: Typerdrummer.com
* Lee: “The Failure of Agile” by Andy Hunt
“The Pragmatic Programmer” by Andy Hunt and David Thomas

What even is architecture? The gang talks distributed architecture (with a domain-driven design chaser) with developer and consultant Tim Wondergem in a special episode recorded live on-site at the Wondergem Compound. Also: Lee is allergic to WSDL. Tim doesn’t like otters. Lee and Jorge may owe basically everybody an apology. Sorry everybody.

Follow up:

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Ep. 007: Lucrative and Kinda Sickening with Brett Pennings

Live from Release Mode Village Lee & Jorge welcome back developer Brett Pennings to talk about cash and your side projects. How does monetization affect a project or hobby? Should you monetize your project? Can you do it without losing your fanbase? Also: Trolls are great. Some follow-up on our TDD talk.

Follow up:
* The Failures of “Intro to TDD” by Justin Searls h/t @jasich

Mentioned in this episode:
* Soccer Physics
* Threes
* Acceptable Ads Manifesto
* Jack Conte
* Patreon
* Kickstarter
* Indie GoGo

Picks of the week:
* Jorge: STEM
* Brett: Open Systems Technologies (OST)
* Brett: Ludum Dare Grand Rapids
* Lee: 80 Days

We talk about teaching and how we learn with consultant and coding instructor Chase Bolen. Can anyone learn to program if they're motivated? Is it worth it? How does a professional developer continue to learn? Lee and Jorge get some answers.

Also: Lee is a regular Terri Gross. What to do with "30 days guy." Mentors are important. Callbacks are everywhere now. Chase did some homework.

Mentioned in this episode:

Udacity

Coursera

Meetup

Volatility-Based Design

Callbacks

Generator expressions

Lambda functions

Functional Languages

Lewis & Clark

Ballmer Peak

State dependent memory

LVHA in CSS

Security Now

Picks of the week:

App Inventor 2 @ MIT

Scratch

Lobste.rs

Mf'ing website (obscene URL left as an exercise for the listener)

What happens when Agile methodology falls into the hands of the wrong people? According to our guest application development consultant Jared Dickson, you've got some work to do. The gang talks about how Agile methodology is sometimes twisted into an unholy weapon used to crush the spirit of complacent developers. Also: "Where the hell did these people learn about Agile?", fabulous tablets, Jorge had a shirt once.

Check us out on Twitter at @releasecast and on the web at releasemode.com.

The Agile Manifesto

Phablets

GoLang

Gingonic

The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick M. Lencioni

Station Eleven: A novel by Emily St. John Mandel

How do you get into game development? For Brett Pennings, the story starts with an 8th grade kid and a TI-83 calculator. Lee and Jorge welcome Brett to chat about being a web developer by day and an indie mobile game developer by night. Also: the gang invents a new taskrunner called "Derp."

Check us out on Twitter at @releasecast and on the web at releasemode.com.