Vancouver Tech Podcast

Alex and Drew open the show talking about highlights from the previous week's meetups in the Vancouver tech scene, then Alex talks about progress with learning to code from her blog currently hosted on Medium. Drew and Alex mention a few coding references to check out: Hong Kiat, Team Treehouse, Code Academy, and Code School.

Our guest this week is Reza Sanaie. The interview starts at [0:16:40](#0:16:40). Reza is the Co-founder and Director of Engineering at Beanworks which is a company focused on providing accounts payable solutions using cloud based software. To find out more how Beanworks can help you reach out to Reza by email: reza @ beanworks.com.

Reza regularly attends and participates in the Polyglot Unconference and you can find him on slack at #yvrDev and #887gnw.

Drew and Alex will be taking a break over the holidays from recording the podcast. New episodes will be available January 9, 2017.

Alex and Drew open the show talking about interview protocols and discuss the book Drew is reading: Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions, by Gayle Laakmann McDowell. They review hightlights from the previous week's meetups in the Vancouver tech scene, then Alex talks about progress and encountering rabbit holes with learning to code from her blog currently hosted on Medium. They also discuss drawbacks (bloat) and benefits of software, including how awesome the Jet Brains IntelliJ IDEA IDE is.

Our guest this week is Dean Sutton. Dean is the CEO and Co-founder of Insight Diagnostics which is a medical technology company from Vancouver and speaks about the projects they're working on and the process of fundraising. Dean believes in developing technologies, companies and movements that truly matter. He's focused on building health technologies, clean energy and early stage technology development. Dean recommends a few resources if you're just getting started: read Lean Startup by Eric Reise, go out to meetups and events and speak to Universities about their recent or upcoming grads in the fields and technology you're looking to pursue.

Dean supports the Vancouver startup / technology scene from a founders perspective and is providing guidance and support through Farmteam and has provided early stage financing for startups through resources such as Wavefront, Creative Destruction Labs and many more. Dean is also looking for technical talent with health tech experience to join his team, so if you're on the hunt, reach out to him by email or on twitter @DeanSutton.

Alex and Drew open the show talking about highlights of the previous week's meetups and upcoming meetups in the Vancouver tech scene, including the upcoming web developer conference Confoo.

Our guest this week is Brent Vatne of Exponent!

Alex and Drew open the show talking about the previous and upcoming meetups in the Vancouver tech scene. Also mentioned is the One Kindness challenge which you can find more information at: facebook.com/onekindness

Our guest this week is Julia Zhou of the Digital Economy Forum which is a startup non profit organization providing digital content, educating the public on the impact of technology on society. Every month, there is a new campaign to tackle a different kind of technology, with new content and articles released every Monday.

Our guests this week are Alex Taylor and Jade Tong. Alex and Jade completed the Developer Bootcamp at CodeCore and were on the show one year ago when they were in their 6th week studying. Drew and I check in with Alex and Jade to see how their experience was with CodeCore and see what they're up to now!

Alex and Drew open the show talking about dog friendly workspaces, Haml, the upcoming inaugural Vancouver Tech Meetup, an open-contribution style company, and go over the upcoming week of Meetups Around Town.

Our guests this week are Robert Reppel and Erik Reppel. Robert Reppel is Director of Engineering at Adaptech Solutions and co-host of the DDD/CQRS/ES Meetup and the new Vancouver Tech Meetup. A true Polyglot, Robert has more than 25 years of practical, hands-on experience as a Software and Systems Architect, fixer, aligner, deliverer and explainer of products and projects within all aspects of the software development life cycle.

Also joining us is Robert's son Erik Reppel who is working on his B.SEng. at UVIC majoring in Computer Science and has interests in big data and time series events. Erik is also cofounder of launchaco.com a company that instantly searches domain names, social media handles and gives you the means to a custom website in 3 easy steps.

Alex and Drew open the show talking about bit about reasonable assumptions of how things are versus how they end up being in the real world, whether engineers should follow reasonable assumptions or test everything, how event storming and CQRS help deliver early prototypes quickly, the upcoming inaugural Vancouver Tech Meetup and an open-contribution style company, and go over the upcoming week of Meetups Around Town.

Our guest this week is Alamusi, organizer of the Ionic Vancouver and Tech and Startup Weekly (9Cat) Meetup Groups. We talk about developing cross platform apps using Ionic which uses Adobe PhoneGap or Apache Cordova frameworks versus other platforms such as Xamarin.

Alex and Drew open the show talking a bit about reasonable assumptions of how things are versus how they end up being in the real world, whether engineers should follow reasonable assumptions or test everything, how event storming and CQRS help deliver early prototypes quickly, the upcoming inaugural Vancouver Tech Meetup and an open-contribution style company, go over the upcoming week of Meetups Around Town, and have an interview with Mark Schramm, organizer of the Vancouver Windows Platform Developer Group about the meetup, his consulting business, some of the cool projects he's working on, and mentoring Microsoft interns.

Drew and Guest Co-Host Alex talk about levels of software development, project management, event storming, learning to code, meetups around town, then interview Hussein from Launch Academy and the Vancouver Pixel Crafters Meetup group.

Drew and Guest Co-Host Alex talk about project management, event storming, learning to code, meetups around town, then interview Ian and Mike from the Android Vancouver Meetup group.