Contact Ian Johnson:

Website: https://blog.ninjaferret.co.uk/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/IJohnson_TNF

Blog: https://blog.ninjaferret.co.uk/2017/06/07/sketch-notes.html

Other Links:

Abstractions Conference: https://abstractions.io

Eva-Lotta Lamm - Twitter: https://twitter.com/evalottchen

Mike Rohde - Twitter: https://twitter.com/rohdesign

Other Resources

The Sketchnote Handbook: the illustrated guide to visual note taking: https://amzn.to/2O7oytr

The Sketchnote Workbook: Advanced techniques for taking visual notes you can use anywhere: https://amzn.to/2JRyv8S

Bikablo: https://amzn.to/2XRQlSZ

Bikablo 2.0: https://amzn.to/2Y4AE63

After this episode record I head out and bought some resources to give Sketch Notes a go, I'll be posting to twitter some of my results, but in the mean time, these are the resources I bought to give Sketch Notes a go.

Black Pens:

Staedtler Pigment Liner: https://amzn.to/30KcaRq

Coloured Pens:

Winsor & Newton ProMarker, Pastel Tones: https://amzn.to/2LA7FFl

Winsor & Newton ProMarker, Neutral Tones: https://amzn.to/2XSh9Cx

Winsor & Newton Water Colour Marker - Multi-Coloured: https://amzn.to/2JY8kxl

In this episode we talk about Developer Conferences with Sarah Withee.

Sarah is a polyglot software engineer who loves the intersection of where people and technology meet, she is also an avid hardware and robot tinkerer located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the USA.

Sarah is also a public speaker, who has captivated audiences with both popular and powerful technical and anecdotal talks.

Her talents extend to teaching and mentoring, giving workshops to teach programming and hardware building to women in tech, as well as to students of all ages.

Sarah has mentored middle and high school robotics teams to world championships (as well as built and programmed a few robots of her own).

And because that isn't enough to keep her busy, Sarah has even co-organized six conferences and is the Director of Programming for the Abstractions conference.

Contact Sarah Withee:

Website: https://geekygirlsarah.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/geekygirlsarah

Github: https://github.com/geekygirlsarah

Instgram: https://instagram.com/geekygirlsarah

Twitch: https://twitch.tv/geekygirlsarah

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sarahwithee

Other Links:

Abstractions Conference: https://abstractions.io

In this episode we talk to Richie Coss about changing careers from welder to a web developer.

Richie trained as a fabricator and worked in that profession for a decade before finding his true passion as a front end developer.

His interest in front end leans heavily towards the UI/CSS side of the discipline.

For the past 18 months he has worked in the North West of the UK as a Front End contractor.
Previously to this he worked as a permanent front end developer for agencies in Manchester and Liverpool.

Contacting Richie Coss:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/frontendzzzguy

Codepen: https://codepen.io/frontendzzzguy/

This episode was recorded live at the Chester Devs - Junior Developer Event in Chester, United Kingdom.

If you would like the Cynical Developer to speak at your local meetup, then get in touch and we'll see what we can do.

More about Chester Devs:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChesterDevs

Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Chester-Devs/

Github: https://github.com/ChesterDevs

In this episode we find out about developing games with MonoGame with Andy Clarke.

Andy develops software for Protolabs, who use 3D printing and traditional manufacturing techniques to rapidly create prototype parts.

He is the co-runner of the Shropshire Devs usergroup based in Telford, Shropshire

Contacting Andy Clarke:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/theMagicWeasel

Website: http://weaselware.net/

Github: https://github.com/magicweasel

Useful Links:

MonoGame: http://www.monogame.net/

Unity 3D Episode: https://cynicaldeveloper.com/podcast/85/

Shropshire Devs:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShropshireDevs

Website: http://shropshiredevs.co.uk/

In this episode we are joined by Andrew Kelly, who is here to talk to us about Well-Architected Web Applications.

Andrew is a web developer from Cheshire in the UK, who currently works as a Technical Team Lead.

Andy has been a web developer for over 15 years specialising in .net core and more recently AWS.

He has a passion for everything cloud and will shortly be broadening his experience as a platform engineer.

Contacting Andrew Kelly

website: http://www.andrewkel.ly
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewkellymanchester/
Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/andyk2122

In this episode we discuss a journey to and from Development, with Paddy Kearns.

Paddy is a Senior .NET Developer based in Nottingham, where he spends his days coding with VB.net, C# Webforms and MVC.

He has been a developer for many years, but took a break in between to follow a music career, and then came back.

Contacting Paddy Kearns

Twitter: https://twitter.com/paddy_kearns
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/patrick-kearns-aa9996ba
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5qJjINlxRbwjQ4aOAcKaRG

Other Helpful links

Commodore 64: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64
VIC 20: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20
C64 sound chip: https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/SID

In this episode we find out about GraphQL, and here to talk to us is Vladimir Novick

Vladimir is a Developer advocate at hasura.io, a Google Developer Expert, a consultant, a worldwide speaker, a published author, he is host of the 3factorRadio podcast and he also contributes regularly to Open Source Software.

Vladimir brings years of experience within the JavaScript ecosystem and has been coding since the rise of the web, from the time of Netscape Navigator and the "First Browser Wars".

Currently, He works with Web, Mobile, VR, AR, and IoT technologies Vladimir is also an advocate for the use of GraphQL and serverless architectures

Contacting Vladimir Novick

Website: http://vnovick.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/vladimirnovick
Medium: https://medium.com/@VladimirNovick
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VladimirNovickDev
Github: https://github.com/vnovick

Other Helpful links

Hasura: http://hasura.io
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HasuraHQ

In this episode we talk to Iris Classon about Distributed Monoliths and why they could be a better solution for you.

Iris Classon Microsoft MVP, author and speaker, A former clinical dietitian and personal trainer.
She is a board member on the .net foundation and mum to 4 month old Loke.

Contacting Iris Classon

Website: http://irisclasson.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/irisclasson
Twitter: https://twitter.com/irisclasson

Useful links

.Net Foundation: https://dotnetfoundation.org/
Noda Time: https://nodatime.org/

Sponsor

PVS Studio: pvs-studio
Technologies used in the PVS-Studio code analyzer for finding bugs and potential vulnerabilities: Blog post

In this episode I will be dicussing a topic which its pretty irritating to say the least, rolling your own solution to a common problem!