The Hello World Podcast

By Shawn Wildermuth

What's The Hello World Podcast about?

Not just another technical podcast. Shawn Wildermuth brings you his "Hello World" podcast where we learn about how your favorite developers tell their story of how they got started writing software! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Hello World Podcast episodes:

04.16.2020
Episode 92: Mikayla Hutchinson
Mikayla works on .NET at Microsoft. She's been working on .NET developer tools for more than a decade, including Xamarin and Visual Studio for Mac, and is passionate about user experience and inclusivity. In her free time, she enjoys game...
04.06.2020
Episode 91: Martine Dowden
Focusing on web interfaces that are beautiful, functional, accessible, and usable. Martine Dowden approaches User Experience from both Art and Science, drawing from her degrees in Psychology and Visual Communications. Martine has worked as an artist, educator, and consultant since...
01.22.2018
Episode 90: Stuart Celarier
Stuart Celarier is a principal software architect and developer, primarily on Microsoft technologies. He has worked in a wide variety of industries and problem domains as a consultant and employee, as well as teaching and mentoring. He is an eight-time...
01.15.2018
Episode 89: Dylan Beattie
Dylan Beattie is a systems architect and software developer. He's been building interactive web applications on the Microsoft stack since the days of Windows NT 4. Today his main interests are HTTP APIs, user experience design, and distributed systems. Dylan...
07.24.2017
Episode 88: Mads Torgersen
Mads is the Program Manager for the C# Language. He maintains the language specification and runs the language design process for C#. Many years ago Mads was a professor, and also contributed to a language starting with J. Hosted on...
05.01.2017
Episode 87: Scott Hunter
Scott Hunter works for Microsoft as the Director of Program Management for the .NET team. This team builds the .NET Framework, .NET Core, Managed Languages (C#, F#, VB), .NET Tooling, Web Tooling and the Web and Data frameworks. Before this...
04.10.2017
Episode 86: Rowan Miller
Rowan works as a Program Manager on the .NET team at Microsoft. The bulk of his time at Microsoft has been spent on the open source Entity Framework project. He speaks at technical conferences and blogs at romiller.com. Prior to...
03.27.2017
Episode 85: Sara Ford
Sara Ford is a Senior Product Manager at GitHub on the Editor Tools team. Previously she worked at Microsoft for over a decade on their developer tools, including Visual Studio and CodePlex. In 2015, Sara received her Masters degree in...
03.20.2017
Episode 84: Joseph Guadagno
Joseph Guadagno has been in software development for about 15 years or so. He started out with a small book on QuickBASIC, then moved the Visual Basic for DOS, then Visual Basic for Windows, then Visual Basic .NET and eventually...
03.14.2017
Episode 83: Jeff Atwood
Jeff Atwood considers himself a reasonably experienced Windows software developer with a particular interest in the human side of software development, as represented in his recommended developer reading list on his blog, Coding Horror. Computers are fascinating machines, but they're mostly a reflection of the people using them. In the art of software development, studying code isn't enough: you have to study the people behind the software, too. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
02.13.2017
Episode 82: Jon Galloway
Jon works at Microsoft as a Technical Evangelist focused on ASP.NET and Windows Azure. He’s co-author of Wrox Professional ASP.NET MVC, writes samples and tutorials like the MVC Music Store and is a frequent speaker at conferences and international Web...
01.30.2017
Episode 81: Cory House
Cory is an international speaker, Pluralsight author, Microsoft MVP, Software Architect, independent consultant, and teacher. He has trained over 10,000 software developers at conferences worldwide on front-end development, testing, and software architecture. He currently specializes in front-end development using React....
01.24.2017
Episode 80: Stacey Mulcahy
Stacey Mulcahy is a technical evangelist for Microsoft who focuses on IoT, Web Development and Open Source. She is a tinkerer and maker, and has a love for all things microprocessor. She has spoken at several international conferences, has course...
01.16.2017
Episode 79: Jennifer Marsman
Jennifer Marsman is a Principal Developer Evangelist in Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Evangelism group, where she educates developers on Microsoft’s new technologies. In this role, Jennifer is a frequent speaker at software development conferences around the world. In 2016, Jennifer...
01.09.2017
Episode 78: Julie Yack
Julie Yack is a Colorado-based Microsoft Dynamics CRM MVP serving clients across the globe, providing training, implementation, analysis and insight for companies wanting to take their service to the next level. Julie’s blog, www.julieyack.com, addresses pertinent topics of the day,...
10.24.2016
Episode 77: Kevin Grossnicklaus
Over the past 15 years, Kevin Grossnicklaus has established himself as a go-to expert and a local and regional community leader for the software development industry. Prior to founding ArchitectNow in 2009, Kevin spent over a decade as the Chief...
10.10.2016
Episode 76: David Giard
David Giard is a former accountant and a former biochemist, who has been developing solutions using Microsoft technologies for over 2 decades. Currently, David helps people build solutions in his role as a Microsoft Technical Evangelist. David has been very...
09.19.2016
Episode 75: Brian Friesen
Brian Friesen has been pretending to be a developer for the last 9 years and lives in constant fear of being found out. He suspects that someone has been bribing Microsoft on his behalf, as he has received the C#...
09.12.2016
Episode 74: Atley Hunter
Atley Hunter is a passionate developer with over 20 years’ experience. As one of the most prolific Modern UI developers in the world, he has hundreds of unique apps in the running on millions of Windows devices worldwide. A Microsoft...
08.22.2016
Episode 73: Mario Cardinal
A long-time agile coach specializing in software architecture, Mario Cardinal is the co-founder of Slingboards Lab, a productivity software publisher that help people achieve what is important in their day. An experimenter and an entrepreneur, he love to seize the...
07.18.2016
Episode 72: Rob Hale
Rob Hale has over 20 years of software development experience creating solutions for a variety of industries including health and human services, ecommerce, and energy. He currently serves as a Principle Software Engineer at Renewable NRG Systems in Hinesburg, Vermont...
07.11.2016
Episode 71: Miguel de Icaza
Miguel de Icaza, co-founder and CTO of Ximian, is one of the foremost luminaries in the Linux development community and one of the world's most prominent advocates for Free Software. Before co-founding Ximian, Miguel was instrumental in the development of...
06.27.2016
Episode 70: Nick Landry
Nick Landry (@ActiveNick) is a mobility pioneer and expert specializing in the design and production of mobile applications for consumers and the enterprise using diverse cross-platform technologies including Windows Phone, Windows 8, iOS, Android, Mobile Web, Xamarin and PhoneGap. Nick...
06.20.2016
Episode 69: John Petersen
John Petersen has been developing software for over 20 years. It all started when, as a staff accountant, he was asked to get involved in a system upgrade to replace an old IBM Series 1 computer (about the size of...
06.13.2016
Episode 68: G. Andrew Duthie
G. Andrew Duthie, aka devhammer, is the founder and chief consultant for Devhammer Enterprises. Andrew is a consultant focused on helping clients meet their business goals through software. Andrew is also a trainer and writer with more than 15 years...
05.31.2016
Episode 67: Rui Carvalho
Rui is a software craftsman mostly working on Microsoft and web areas since 20 years, from the early Asp 2.0 to the latest DNX stuff. After a long time acting as a consultant for big companies, he focuses today on...
05.16.2016
Episode 66: Bill Wagner
Bill Wagner is one of the world’s foremost C# developers and a member of the ECMA C# Standards Committee. He is President of the Humanitarian Toolbox, has been awarded Microsoft Regional Director and .NET MVP for 10+years, and was recently...
04.25.2016
Episode 65: Merrick Christensen
Merrick Christensen has been programming for ten years and nearly all of that time has been focused in the web space. He’s built many high-traffic projects for prolific companies such as National Geographic, ABC Disney, Fox and others. He co-organized...
04.18.2016
Episode 64: Richard Hundhausen
Richard is the president of Accentient, a company that helps software teams develop better products by leveraging ALM tools and Scrum. He is a Professional Scrum Trainer, author of Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft Visual Studio, and co-creator of the...
04.11.2016
Episode 63: Scott Guthrie
As executive vice president of the Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise group, Scott Guthrie is responsible for the company’s cloud infrastructure, server, database, management and development tools businesses. His engineering team builds Microsoft Azure, Windows Server, SQL Server, Active Directory, System...
04.04.2016
Episode 62: Beth Massi
Beth is a Senior Product Manager for .NET at Microsoft and a long-time community champion for .NET developers. She helps developers build amazing things. Before Microsoft, she spent many years building business apps for small businesses as well as large...
03.21.2016
Episode 61: Tim Huckaby
Tim Huckaby is an industry luminary focused on Emerging User Experiences, User Interaction Design and the Natural User Interface (NUI). Mr. Huckaby has been awarded many times for the highest rated keynotes & presentations for Microsoft and many other industry...
03.14.2016
Episode 60: Rod Paddock
Rod Paddock is the editor of CODE Magazine. Rod has been a software developer for more than 10 years and has worked with tools like Visual Studio .NET SQL Server, Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro, Delphi and numerous others. Rod is...
03.07.2016
Episode 59: Todd Miranda
Todd Miranda is a consultant, trainer, and author. He has been developing on various platforms for over 20 years and has been involved with .NET since it was first released in 2000. He has worked with many of the .NET...
02.29.2016
Episode 58: Jim Wooley
By day, Jim Wooley is a consultant for Slalom Consulting, In his free time, Jim is a frequent speaker, INETA Regional Speaker, MVP, and author of "LINQ in Action". He is always striving to stay at the forefront of technology...
01.11.2016
Episode 57: Billy Hollis
Billy is internationally known for his work on user experience design and native software development. His team, based in Nashville, Tennessee, has created modern apps hailed around the world for innovation and effective use of advanced user interface technologies. Billy...
11.30.2015
Episode 56: Peter Ritchie
Currently Software Architect at Quicken Loans, Peter Ritchie has over 12 years' experience working with .NET applications in C#. Prior to focusing on C#, Peter worked primarily in C/C++, which accounts for the majority of his 26 years of programming...
08.31.2015
Episode 55: Rick Strahl
Rick Strahl is the Big Kahuna and janitor at West Wind Technologies located on the beautiful island of Maui, Hawaii. Between windsurf sessions and spikey haired adventures, Rick has been a software developer for over 25 years, developing business and...
08.17.2015
Episode 54: Jeff Handley
Jeff Handley works at Concur and is focusing on the UI for web applications. He previously worked at Microsoft as the Development Lead for NuGet and WCF RIA Services. Jeff has been building and maturing software projects for 20 years....
07.27.2015
Episode 53: Barry Dorrans
Barry is the security czar for ASP.NET which means he gets to look at the framework, tools and template code, searching for potential insecurities and sometimes even fixing them. He also triages publically and privately reported vulnerabilities before getting someone...
04.02.2015
Episode 52: Matt Pietrek
With over 25 years in the software industry, Matt Pietrek has had quite the interesting ride. Starting at Borland in the late 1980s during the heady days of the Microsoft/Borland “compilers wars”, he got his first, intoxicating taste of OS...
02.23.2015
Episode 51: Frans Bouma
Frans Bouma is the creator and lead developer of LLBLGen Pro, a leading ORM and Entity Modeling solution for .NET. Programming professionally since '94, after he (finally) got his B.sc in Computer Science. Frans wrote his first code back in...
02.01.2015
Episode 50: Keith Elder
Keith Elder is the co-host of the popular online technology podcast Deep Fried Bytes. He is also a Director of Software Engineering at Quicken Loans, the nation’s largest online mortgage lender based in Detroit, MI. Keith is an experienced technologist,...
01.15.2015
Episode 49: Scott Stanfield
Scott Stanfield is the founder and CEO of Vertigo Software, Inc., a digital design and development shop for the media & entertainment business. He is a frequent public speaker, presenting on software technology and design for the past 20 years....
01.01.2015
Episode 48: Dave Ward
Dave Ward is an independent consultant and author, specializing in projects ranging from ASP.NET, to Node.js, to JavaScript single page applications, to hybrid mobile apps. With twenty years of experience developing for the web, he has been recognized as a...
12.15.2014
Episode 47: Steve Smith
Steve is an entrepreneur and software developer with a passion for building quality software as effectively as possible. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer of Falafel Software. Steve has published several courses on Pluralsight, covering DDD, SOLID, design patterns,...
11.01.2014
Episode 46: Rockford Lhotka
Rockford Lhotka is the CTO of Magenic, and is the creator of the widely used CSLA .NET development framework. He is the author of numerous books, and regularly speaks at major conferences around the world. Rockford is a Microsoft Regional...
10.20.2014
Episode 45: Deborah Kurata
Deborah Kurata is an independent software consultant/developer specializing in Web and .NET development using AngularJS, VB.NET, and C#. She has also published several Pluralsight courses. Deborah has authored several programming books including the popular "Doing Objects" series and is a...
10.13.2014
Episode 44: Steve Evans
Steve Evans has been doing DevOps since before the term DevOps was invented. He is a Pluralsight Author, five time Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), and technical Speaker at various industry events. In his spare time he manages a DevOps...
10.06.2014
Episode 43: Walt Ritscher
Walt's enthusiasm for crafting software interfaces blossomed early. Just a few days after discovering how to make pixels move around the screen of a borrowed computer he was devouring books on the topic of computer graphics and UI design. Now...

What's The Hello World Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Hello World Podcast episodes:

Episode 92: Mikayla Hutchinson

Episode 91: Martine Dowden

Episode 90: Stuart Celarier

Episode 89: Dylan Beattie

Episode 88: Mads Torgersen

Episode 87: Scott Hunter

Episode 86: Rowan Miller

Episode 85: Sara Ford

Episode 84: Joseph Guadagno

Episode 83: Jeff Atwood

Episode 82: Jon Galloway

Episode 81: Cory House

Episode 80: Stacey Mulcahy

Episode 79: Jennifer Marsman

Episode 78: Julie Yack

Episode 77: Kevin Grossnicklaus

Episode 76: David Giard

Episode 75: Brian Friesen

Episode 74: Atley Hunter

Episode 73: Mario Cardinal

Episode 72: Rob Hale

Episode 71: Miguel de Icaza

Episode 70: Nick Landry

Episode 69: John Petersen

Episode 68: G. Andrew Duthie

Episode 67: Rui Carvalho

Episode 66: Bill Wagner

Episode 65: Merrick Christensen

Episode 64: Richard Hundhausen

Episode 63: Scott Guthrie

Episode 62: Beth Massi

Episode 61: Tim Huckaby

Episode 60: Rod Paddock

Episode 59: Todd Miranda

Episode 58: Jim Wooley

Episode 57: Billy Hollis

Episode 56: Peter Ritchie

Episode 55: Rick Strahl

Episode 54: Jeff Handley

Episode 53: Barry Dorrans

Episode 52: Matt Pietrek

Episode 51: Frans Bouma

Episode 50: Keith Elder

Episode 49: Scott Stanfield

Episode 48: Dave Ward

Episode 47: Steve Smith

Episode 46: Rockford Lhotka

Episode 45: Deborah Kurata

Episode 44: Steve Evans

Episode 43: Walt Ritscher