The Cynical Developer

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

In this episode I wanted to talked about pivoting in your career, and here to talk with us is Zac Braddy.

Contacting Zac Braddy

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZackerTheHacker Github: https://github.com/zacbraddy CV: https://zackerthehacker.com/ Medium: https://medium.com/@zacharybraddy React in motion course: https://www.manning.com/livevideo/react-in-motion

40% Discount code off React in motion course: ytbraddy

In this episode we will be talking about Blazor, Jamie Taylor is hear to explain what all the fuss is about.

Jamie is a full stack .Net developer, with a focus on web cross platform. He lives and works in Leeds in the UK and he has become the go to guy for .Net Core at his workplace.

And as some of you will be aware Jamie came on the podcast back on episode 8 and episode 62 where we talk about .Net Core.

When he came on last time he has started his own podcast, which some of you will undoubtidly enjoy, called The Waffling Taylors which is a gaming podcast,

Since then he has started THE .net core podcast, devotku this is an anime podcast, and more recently the Ask a brit podcast.

Contacting Jamie Taylor

Website: https://www.gaprogman.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/dotNetCoreBlog LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jamie-taylor-57602959 Google+: https://plus.google.com/+JamieGaProgManTaylorGitHub: https://github.com/gaprogman Blog: https://dotnetcore.gaprogman.com 

More from Jamie:

.Net Core Podcast: https://dotnetcore.show/ Waffling Taylors podcast: https://www.wafflingtaylors.rocks/ A Journey in .NET Core: https://dotnetcore.gaprogman.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/gaprogman YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTDz8IxVCKPmhLemR9eOLPQ Pokeblazor: https://pokeblazor.azurewebsites.net/

Useful Links

Blazor: https://blazor.net/ Introduction to Blazor: http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2018/02/06/blazor-intro/ Wasm Support: https://caniuse.com/#feat=wasm WHOIS Client Blazor App: https://blazor-whois.azurewebsites.net

In this episode we have something a little different for you, we are coming to you from NDC { London }, and I am joined by Steve Gordon and Jon Galloway. We will be discussing the current state of .net and it's future.

Useful Links

.NET Foundation: https://dotnetfoundation.org/ .NET Core GIT: https://github.com/dotnet/core .NET Core Getting Started: https://dotnet.github.io/

Download .NET: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download

Blazor: https://blazor.net/

Contacting Steve Gordon

Website: https://www.stevejgordon.co.uk/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/stevejgordon Git: https://github.com/stevejgordon LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-gordon-a6691114/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_rMpypHGP8_J8AAo_bLCmA .Net South East: http://www.dotnetsoutheast.co.uk/

Contacting Jon Galloway

Website: Blog: https://weblogs.asp.net/jongalloway Twitter: https://twitter.com/jongalloway Git: https://github.com/jongalloway Herding Code Podcast: http://herdingcode.com/

In this episode we talk to Allen Underwood about the distributed streaming platform Kafka, and what exactly it is.

Allen Underwood, is one third of the Coding Blocks podcast, he is a Software Architect and Microsoft MVP. He is a Father to three children, and a husband. Allen loves to build things, both software and in the "real world".

Allen's passions go beyond programming and give him a love for basketball and American football. It's also said that he is just a little obsessed with good audio and computer hardware!

Allen is is also one of the original driving forces behind this podcast coming to lie, so you can thank or blame him for that.

Contacting Allen Underwood

Website: https://www.codingblocks.net/about/#allenunderwood Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allenunderwood Twitter: https://twitter.com/theallenu

Coding Blocks and it's Community

Website: https://www.codingblocks.net Twitter: https://twitter.com/CodingBlocks Slack: https://www.codingblocks.net/slack

In this episode I will be announcing the winner of the 100th Episode giveaway, and the topic I will be discussing is Making Time for stuff!

There is always one thing I say to people when they tell me they don't have time to do something and that is "If you can't make the time, you don't want it bad enough!"

In this episode we talk about Code Reviews with Dave Follett, or as you may know him Super Good Dave.

Dave is a Husband, and father of two. He is software developer living in the Metro Detroit area with more than 18 years of professional experience. He is interested in continuous learning, tinkering, and exploring new technology.

Dave is pretty activity away from technology where he spends his time on other pursuits including skiing, basketball, cooking, and fishing.

Contacting Dave Follett

Website: https://davefollett.io Twitter: https://twitter.com/davefollett Blog: https://dev.to/davefollett

In this episode we complete our extended dive into AI with Ed Yau, this is part 3 of 3.

This all started back on Episode 101 be sure to go back and start your journey there.

Ed works as a Solution Architect at cloudThing, on behalf of a number of clients.

Having spent over 15-years in software development building different styles of Enterprise IT systems, he is really excited about the potential for Machine Learning, Cognitive & Bot technologies which look to deliver more intelligent User Experiences (UX) for applications. This is considering UX in the fullest sense, as a fullstack discipline.

In an area that is flooded with hype, Ed is here today to explain what developers need to know to get started with AI, and what is happening in the evolving world of bot technologies.

Ed was last on the show back on episode 44 where we talked about Bots and how they were taking over the tech space, just over a year later he's back today to give us more insight into the current world of AI.

Contacting Ed Yau Website: https://medium.com/edyau LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edmond-yau/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/hello_edyau

Useful Links for ML and AI PWC: AI will create as many jobs as it displaces https://www.pwc.co.uk/press-room/press-releases/AI-will-create-as-many-jobs-as-it-displaces-by-boosting-economic-growth.html Deloitte: Technology and people: The great job-creating machine https://www2.deloitte.com/uk/en/pages/finance/articles/technology-and-people.html What Types of Questions Can Data Science Answer https://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/09/questions-data-science-can-answer.html Explicable AI: LIME https://github.com/marcotcr/lime Jan Bosch: Engineering Deep Learning Systems is Hard! https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/engineering-deep-learning-systems-hard-jan-bosch/ FDA Approval for Diabetes AI https://www.fda.gov/newsevents/newsroom/pressannouncements/ucm604357.htm Aibo https://us.aibo.com/ Anki Vector robot. £50 off on preorder! https://www.anki.com/en-gb/vector Ali Rahimi 2017 NIPS acceptance speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi1Yry33TQE Courses Fast.ai http://course.fast.ai/ Andrew Ng’s Coursera course https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning Google AI Nanodegree https://www.udacity.com/course/ai-artificial-intelligence-nanodegree--nd898 Microsoft AI course https://www.edx.org/microsoft-professional-program-artificial-intelligence Matthew Kirk: Thoughtful Machine Learning with Python https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thoughtful-Machine-Learning-Python-Test-Driven/dp/1491924136 Useful Links for Bots BotKit https://github.com/howdyai/botkit IBM Watson https://www.ibm.com/watson/services/conversation RASA core https://rasa.com/products/rasa-core MS Conversation Learner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DJcWyRkqBI