Web Rush

Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Ward Bell @WardBell
• Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Guest:

• Madelyn Papa LinkedIn

Recording date: Feb 8, 2024

• AG Grid

• IdeaBlade

• Siena College - Software Development Program
• React.dev
• Arrays
• Java
• Software Engineering classes
• Unity 3D
• Siena College Program for Poland Trauma and UX Design
• Figma
• GitHub Copilot
• GitHub Education Developer Pack
• React Native
• React Tic Tac Toe tutorial
• CodeSandbox
• Game Pigeon
• Connect Four game
• Siena College - Top college in NY for finding a job

• 00:26 Introducing John's favorite guest on the show
• 01:40 What drew you into computer science?
• 05:19 What are you taking now in comp sci?
• 10:28 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 11:32 What are they teaching on user experience UX?
• 14:45 Has the course work been solo or team based?
• 16:21 How important is presenting in course work?
• 20:26 What are you doing outside of computers in university?
• 23:40 Is ChatGPT or AI being used at school in computer science?
• 27:34 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 28:34 What are you building with React?
• 31:20 How are you using Code Sandbox?
• 32:34 What happens next after college?
• 35:43 Has there been resourcing in the job application process?
• 38:25 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.

Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Ward Bell @WardBell
• Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Guest:

• Gwyneth Pena-Siguenza @Twitter

Recording date: Feb 1, 2024

• AG Grid

• IdeaBlade

• Gwyneth Pena-Siguenza on YouTube
• Learn to cloud
• Do More with AI and GitHub Copilot, keynote at All Things Open by Gwyneth
• All Things Open conference
• Gwyn’s github
• GitHub Copilot
• Microsoft Developer
• From Zero to Cloud Engineer in 6 months
• Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
• The Phoenix Project book
• Semantic Kernel
• Learning How To Learn, by Barbara Oakley
• The Woobles - crochet kits for beginners
• Express Yourself: “It’s not what you look like when you’re doin’ what your doin’”

• 00:30 Are you a YouTuber?
• 01:51 Introducing Gwyneth Pena-Siguenza
• 07:23 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 08:28 What was your journey into tech?
• 13:40 How did you feel joining a professional tech jon?
• 19:09 What kind of tech is interesting you?
• 21:43 What are problems you enjoy trying to solve?
• 24:23 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 25:22 What are some interesting ways to get a new job in 2024?
• 29:03 What are people stumbling on in cloud engineering?
• 31:08 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.

Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Ward Bell @WardBell

Guest:

• Lee Stott @lee_stott

Recording date: Jan 25, 2024

• AG Grid

• IdeaBlade

• Lee Stott on LinkedIn
• University College of London
• Lee Stott, Honorary Associate Professor in Teaching at UCL
• Democritizing AI
• iPhone’s decade worth of impact
• AI Revolution
• What if AI Could Rebuild the Middle Class
• What is the Rabbit R1 device?
• Rabbit r1 is an AI-powered sidekick that’s like a future version of Siri
• Best practices for deploying language models
• Small Language Models
• Semantic Kernel
• LangChain
• Semantic Kernel Cookbook
• Educator Developer Blog
• Microsoft Learn
• Microsoft Student Resources
• Azure AI Studio
• BaseCamp’s “Shape Up” methodology for defining, choosing and “estimating” projects

• 00:43 Introducing Lee Stott
• 03:37 What does Democratizing AI really mean?
• 10:44 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 11:48 When something is truly available to everyone, that's when you've democratized it
• 20:05 Who is the target audience for AI in 2024?
• 27:08 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 28:06 What AI tools does Lee Stott think are worth checking out?
• 35:24 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.

Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Ward Bell @WardBell

Recording date: Jan 18, 2024

• AG Grid

• IdeaBlade

• Want to go fast go alone. If you want to go far, go together
• Build an IT Succession Plan
• Angular workshops at ngConf 2024

• 00:28 Is business strategy fun? Boring?
• 03:42 Bad things happen when I'm doing something the business doesn't want
• 06:39 How do you shift your own thinking around the business or customer goal?
• 11:44 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 12:51 What would happen if you didn't finish what you're working on?
• 22:24 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 23:26 What is your succession plan for your role at the business?
• 28:37 If you want to fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together
• 33:44 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.

Madison Kanna returns to talk about the benefits of a computer science degree, what bootcamps can offer, and the benefit of being around others learning in a similar direction.

Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Ward Bell @WardBell

Guest:

• Madison Kanna on Twitter

Recording date: Dec 21, 2023

• AG Grid

• IdeaBlade

• Do You Need a CS Degree to be a Developer? (Madison Kanna on YouTube)
• Madison Kanna on YouTube
• Madison Kanna’s code book club
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-oriented Software
• Cracking the Coding Interview
• Exercism JavaScript Track
• The Exorcist on IMDB
• The Flat Iron Bootcamp
• Coding Dojo
• FreeCodeCamp - introduction to JavaScript
• Teach Yourself Computer Science
• Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors program
• Resilient Management
• Deep Work

• 00:29 Welcome
• 00:54 Introducing Madison Kanna
• 02:06 What's the state of books and code book clubs in 2024?
• 04:49 What is Exercism JavaScript style programming?
• 07:09 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 08:10 How were CS degrees viewed when you started programming?
• 11:00 What was the biggest value from self studying in programming?
• 17:41 Can you do formal education and more informal education in programming?
• 29:27 Wanting to be around like minded people learning in a similar direction
• 35:20 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 36:24 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.

Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Ward Bell @WardBell
• Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Recording date: Dec 14, 2023

• AG Grid

• IdeaBlade

• ChatGPT released
• Bing Image generation
• AI Hallucination
• Responsible AI
• Great Ezra Klein podcast on the state of AI in 2023 and where it is going
• GitHub Copilot
• Is Scrum dead?
• Zeitgeist
• Why use a web framework
• Bargaining for our very existence
• Why hasn’t TDD Taken Over the World?” - by Dave Farley

• 00:27 Welcome
• 02:08 AI had a big coming out
• 10:30 Ways to deal with hallucinations
• 14:00 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 15:01 Growing discontent with testing
• 19:37 What processes do we need to challenge?
• 23:19 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 24:17 The job market
• 29:54 Where's crypto and blockchains?
• 31:47 In person conferences
• 35:33 Are we moving back to the office?
• 39:48 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.

Host(s):

• Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Guest:

• Ward Bell @WardBell

Recording date: 12/07/2023

• AG Grid

• IdeaBlade

• 00:30 Welcome
• 01:22 When Ward changed from consultant to owner manager?
• 08:36 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 09:40 What's an example of an excuse developers give?
• 12:34 How do you interpret answers to the problem you're trying to solve?
• 16:22 Meet the user
• 20:51 Break down the problem and chip away at it
• 24:17 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 25:20 How does a developer have time for it all?
• 40:04 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.

Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Guest:

• Chris Woodruff @cwoodruff

Recording date: Nov 30, 2023

• AG Grid

• IdeaBlade

• The Microsoft MVP program
• ASP Insiders
• Learning the Entity Framework
• .NET 8
• Efficient querying with Entity Framework
• Video showing how to use GitHub Copilot with Entity Framework
• The Scotty Principle
• Using the Scotty principle to Crush your To-Do List
• Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach
• Strange New Worlds: Star Trek
• Chris Woodruff on GitHub

• 00:26 Welcome
• 01:05 Introducing Chris Woodruff
• 02:34 What is a Microsoft MVP?
• 06:03 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 07:09 Learning how to be a data detective
• 17:12 Learning the Scotty Principle
• 23:12 Sponsor: Ideablade
• 24:15 Dealing with uncertainty in projects
• 29:14 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.

Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Ward Bell @WardBell
• Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin
• Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Guest:

• Jasmine Greenaway @paladique

Recording date: 11/15/2023

• AG Grid

• Narwhal

  Visit nx.dev to get the preeminent open-source toolkit for monorepo development, today.

• Jasmine Greenaway on LinkedIn
• Jasmine Greenaway on GitHub
• Perl
• Live coding
• Beginner’s Guide to Web Development
• Replit
• Fundamentals for Self Taught Programmers

• 00:28 Welcome
• 02:11 Introducing Jasmine Greenaway
• 05:32 What sticks out to you on your learning journey into coding?
• 08:15 How did you get into teaching?
• 10:00 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 10:50 Do you remember your first time in front of a classroom?
• 15:58 Are there common themes in people wanting to learn to code?
• 18:11 Sponsor: Narwhal
• 18:44 How do you know when to give an answers vs ask more questions?
• 21:45 What are some good starting points with web development?
• 24:04 How has AI effected teaching?
• 28:21 How does teaching intersect with developer relations at Microsoft?
• 30:24 Writing a book called Fundamentals for Self Taught Programmers
• 32:55 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.

Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Ward Bell @WardBell
• Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin
• Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Guest:

• Evyatar Alush @evyataral

Recording date: 11/09/23

• AG Grid

• Narwhal

  Visit nx.dev to get the preeminent open-source toolkit for monorepo development, today.

• Vest.js
• Ward’s Forms talk: “Form Validation Done Right”
• Brecht - Advanced Angular Template Driven Forms
• Episode 256: FullStack JavaScript and TypeScript Apps Using Remult.js | Web Rush
• Vest.js on GitHub
• RxJs
• RxJs Breaking changes
• Emoji-picker-react
• Emoji-picker-react Live demo

• 00:28 Talking about our fears
• 02:09 Introducing Evyatar Alush
• 08:11 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 09:13 What is Vest?
• 11:59 When is an API done?
• 18:08 If you didn't have to worry about the API, would you have done something different?
• 20:04 How do you know what you don't know?
• 22:06 Sponsor: Narwhal
• 22:40 When should you make breaking API changes
• 28:43 How should people be thinking about open source?
• 41:26 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.