The Cynical Developer

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In this episode we talk to Richard Campbell about The Humanitarian Toolbox.

https://cynicaldeveloper.com/podcast/91/

Richard wrote his first line of code in 1977 and still isn't over it. He's had a bunch of jobs in computing, built a few companies along the way and these days does a little consulting, makes the podcasts .NET Rocks and RunAs Radio, is one of the folks behind the Dev Intersection Conferences as well as being chief cheerleader for the charity Humanitarian Toolbox.

Contacting Richard Campbell @ The Humanitarian Toolbox

Humanitarian Toolbox: http://www.htbox.org/ GitHub: https://github.com/HTBox Twitter: https://twitter.com/htbox Blog: http://www.htbox.org/blog Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/htbox

Other Links .Net Rocks Podcast: https://www.dotnetrocks.com/ Run As Radio: http://runasradio.com/

In this episode I want to talk about career prospects for developers, This has been something of a hot topic of late with a few of my developer friends and I want to address what appears to be a common theme between them all.

I'm going to make a few points I have made before in the show, but I will also pick on some new areas.

In this episode I wanted to discuss having an opinion, what one is, and why you should keep it to yourself at times.

As developers we are opinonated by nature, we are surrounded by them every day, even the technology we use is opinionated, but do you even know what an opinion is? most confuse opinion with fact.

There are two kinds of opinions and we dicuss those today.

https://cynicaldeveloper.com/podcast/88/

In this episode we speak to Stuart Mitchell about security in IoT.

http://cynicaldeveloper.com/podcast/87/

Stuart Mitchell is the CEO of the IoT start-up mokanix, which is a Tata Communications business incubated in the company’s ‘Shape the Future’ programme.

The inspiration for mokanix came from wondering why mobile operators didn’t allow access to some of their core control functionality via easy-to-use APIs.

The venture has been established to see what us software developers could make given greater control and security on their mobile data connections.

Stuart is an industry veteran and innovator.

His career in wireless telecommunications spans over 20 years during which time he has worked in a variety of cutting-edge vendors: both large corporates and start-ups.

His experience is as diverse as radio paging and internet security solutions and Stuart worked at the forefront of both VOIP and photo messaging: both of which we take for granted today.

Stuart started his career as a broadcast engineer and still has a passion for playing and listening to music and podcasts.

He is usually found in airport lounges or speaking to customers while walking his over-enthusiastic dog in the fields near where he lives.

Contacting Stuart Mitchell: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartmitch Twitter: https://twitter.com/telcobites

Contacting Mokanix: website: https://mokanix.io FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/mokanixAPI/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mokanix_api LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mokanix/

Light up trash can https://twitter.com/tarbard/status/1002464120447397888

In this episode I wanted to talk to you about talking to non technical people.

http://cynicaldeveloper.com/podcast/86/

​For some reason us techies have some kind of mental ad blocker in our heads when it comes to talking to about technical stuff to non technical people.

And I'll admit it can be hard to talk about such technical things in a way the average person can understand, I'm not going to say normal person as well what is normal?

But anyway, checkout this weeks episode for some quick tips on how to talk to those nontechnical folks.

In this episode we talk about Games Development, using Unity3d with Jason Weimann

http://cynicaldeveloper.com/podcast/85/

Jason Weimann is a games developer and writer who loves to teach others how to build their own games.

He has spent his career working on all types of games, including multiple MMO's, PC, & mobile games.

Jason has been a big Virtual Reality enthusiast since the Oculus Rift Kickstarter. This lover for VR drove him to create and release 6 VR games

But Jason's real passion is found in teaching others game development.

Now, he spends most of his time working on MMOs and running the site unity3d.college & his Youtube channel where he regularly writes and talks about Game development & VR.

Contacting Jason Weimann

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jweimann Unity3d Author: https://unity3d.college/author/jweimann/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIA7tV8G_v3jrGI47Uyo1jg

Unity3d: https://unity3d.college/

In this episode we conclude our miniseries on The Time Bandits, who are the time bandits? They are the thieves in our day to, to day lives that are stealing your time, stopping you being productive and reaching your targets and goals.

This miniseries started by on episode 76, with a look into the ring leader of the bandits Too Much WIP. If you haven’t listened to that episode, then stop right now and go listen to that one first.

Anyway, there are many different time bandits, but we will be focusing on the 5 leaders, which are:

• Too much WIP
• Conflicting Priorities
• Unplanned Work
• Neglected Work
• Unknown Dependencies

And now it's time to talk about Unknown Dependencies

http://cynicaldeveloper.com/podcast/84/

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In this episode we talk about yet another testing paradigm Property Based Testing with Mårten Rånge.

This is not Marten's first appearence on the podcast, we spoke to him back on Episode 49, and that was about F#

Mårten has been programming for more years than not and is equally interested in functional programming as assembly programming.

He occasionally blogs about functional programming or performance.

Mårten believes that reading existentialcomics.com once a week qualifies him as a postmodern philosopher-developer.

http://cynicaldeveloper.com/podcast/83/

Contacting Mårten Rånge

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martenrange/ WebSite: https://gist.github.com/mrange

In this episode we continue our miniseries on The Time Bandits, and we talk about Neglected Work and how you deal with it. Who are the time bandits? They are the thieves in our day to, to day lives that are stealing your time, stopping you being productive and reaching your targets and goals.

This miniseries started by on ">episode 76, with a look into the ring leader of the bandits Too Much WIP. If you haven’t listened to that episode, then stop right now and go listen to that one first.

There are many different time bandits, but we will be focusing on the 5 leaders, which are:

• Too much WIP
• Conflicting Priorities
• Unplanned Work
• Neglected Work
• Unknown Dependencies

So lets look at Neglected Work

http://cynicaldeveloper.com/podcast/82/

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