Vancouver Tech Podcast

Drew and James open the show reflecting on the last episode that Drew did solo. They also chat about summer and the past couple weeks of meetups. This week's guest is Stacey Mulcahy, the Senior Program Manager at "The Garage".

With James on vacation and a last-minute cancellation from our special guest co-host, Drew covers the upcoming week in Meetups Around Town!

Our special guest this week, Matias Marquez tells us all about Buyatab, an electronic gift card company he founded about 7 years ago. The interview starts at: 123.

Drew and James open the show with a quick chat about staying focused and working on side projects. There is also some discussion about Pokemon Go, and programmers who started because they wanted to be game developers. The guest this week is Kalvir Sandhu the founder and CEO of Brewhouse.

Drew and James open the show with a nice lesson on how to say Drews last name. They then discuss some of the tools around server provisioning and a new web server called Caddy. The guest this week is Bryan Clark, the Product Manager for the Firefox DevTools!

Drew and James open the show with a discussion about "beer o'clock", and whether that is inclusive, exclusive, and how to fix it. The guest this week is Jesse Calderon, the Senior Director of Engineering at Tableau Software.

Drew and James open the show with a chat about some DevOps tools. As well as some shortcuts to spinning up new servers. The guest this week is Chris Richardson, a Software Development Manager at Amazon (AWS) on the RDS (Relational Database Service) team.

Drew and James open the show with a plug for a cool job, a short discussion on a recent company acquisition, and some reflection on a special event that they went to on Friday. This weeks guest is Kenneth Auchenberg, a Program Manager at Microsoft.

Drew and James open the show with some cool news. Then jump pretty quickly into the meetups around town. Drew gives a quick review of the Warcraft movie. The guest for this episode is Peter Thompson from AtlanticFusion.

Drew and James jump pretty quickly into meetups since there is so much to get to this week! They do talk a little about company culture for hiring and things like transparent salaries. The guest this week is Luke Closs from ReCollect.

This week is light on events but heavy on discussions. Drew and James open the show with a chat about missing client information, some new tools they are using, and another cool job to plug. This is a special show with 2 simultaneous guests, Keir Miron and Eric Muyser.