Synopsis
Cross Cutting Concerns presents a podcast for the technologist in a hurry. The guests on this show present "lightning" summaries (no more than 10-15 minutes!) about some single interesting piece of technology that would interest a computer programmer like you, scratching the surface and engaging your curiousity.
Episodes
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Podcast 102 - Ed Charbeneau on ASP.NET Tag Helpers
08/10/2018 Duration: 20minEd Charbeneau is creating and using ASP.NET tag helpers. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Doom and web page size: I think this was originally pointed out by Ronan Cremin (Doom is a 1993 PC game, here’s a video of Doom in action) I also tweeted sarcastically about page footprint and client-side rendering recently. Progress Telerik tools Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core Kendo UI Responsive Panel Vue Vixens (I couldn’t find their Rick & Morty example though) Docs: Tag Helpers Scott Addie is on Twitter Demos: Telerik ASP.NET Core demos Eat Sleep Code podcast (also on Soundcloud) Ed Charbeneau is on Twitter. Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willingness to talk about something technical. Music is by Joe Ferg, check out more music on JoeFerg.com!
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Podcast 101 - Eric Potter on Legacy Software
01/10/2018 Duration: 18minEric Potter appreciates the value of good legacy software. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Comic: The Life of a Software Engineer (Bonkers World) Paper: The Computer Scientist as a Toolsmith by Fred Brooks Errata: I said the phrase "part and partial" but I should have said or "part and parcel"? Top Gear, the Hilux saga: Toyota Hilux Part 1 Toyota Hilux Part 2 Toyota Hilux Part 3 Book: The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks Vim, originally created for the Amiga in 1988, which is itself based on vi, which was created in 1976. Eric Potter is on Twitter. Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willingness to talk about something technical. Music is by Joe Ferg, check out more music on JoeFerg.com!
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Podcast 100 - Joe Kelly on COBOL
24/09/2018 Duration: 22minJoe Kelly has lots of COBOL experience. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Alteryx ETL: Extract, transform, load Indeed is a site for finding jobs The "Y2K bug" Various COBOLs mentioned: COBOL 1974, check out Programming Language Standards — Who Needs Them? [PDF] COBOL 1985, check out COBOL Programming Object Oriented COBOL, check out Cobol '97: A Status Report and Object-Oriented COBOL OpenCOBOL which appears to have been replaced by GnuCOBOL The IBM 3270 terminal with 80 character-wide screen IBM z/OS Book: Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 24 Hours which has a Kindle edition. The IBM Mainframes forum Joe was kind enough to share his email address in the episode. Joe Kelly is on Twitter. Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willingness to talk about something technical. Music is by Joe Ferg, check out more music on JoeFerg.com!
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Podcast 099 - Ed Charbeneau on Blazor
17/09/2018 Duration: 20minEd Charbeneau is writing SPA with Blazor. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Ed is the host of the Eat Sleep Code podcast, check it out! We even did a cross-over episode for the Stir Trek conference (episode 45) Daniel Roth is a Program Manager at Microsoft WebAssembly (aka Wasm) 1.0 has shipped to all the major browsers. Blazor Blazor on GitHub Mono is an open-source implementation of .NET. Steve Sanderson created the original pilot of Blazor (he also created Knockout.js) The term "evergreen browsers" has been around for some time. It may have been popularized by Paul Irish. asm.js is a WebAssembly polyfill NuGet (where you can find Markdig) Ed Charbeneau on Channel 9 Ed Charbeneau is on Twitter. Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willingness to talk about something technical. Music is by Joe Ferg, check out more music on JoeFerg.com!
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Podcast 098 - Eric Potter on Nintaco
10/09/2018 Duration: 19minEric Potter is writing code to play NES games. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Nintaco R.O.B. video from the NES Works video series Tom Murphy aka Tom7 Check out the NES AI videos from Tom7. I reference part 2 in this podcast. Check out starting at 18:11 especially. Podcast: Retronauts Book: Racing the Beam Aptera Some of the games mentioned in this episode: Castlevania Bomberman Super Mario Brothers Tecmo Super Bowl Heavy Barrel Skate or Die NintacoProxy on NuGet ROMhacking.net which includes memory locations, translations, and more. Book: I Am Error Event: PonCon, Sep 22nd 2018 Eric Potter is on Twitter. Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willingness to talk about something technical. Music is by Joe Ferg, check out more music on JoeFerg.com!
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Podcast 097 - Richard Rodger on Microservices
04/09/2018 Duration: 19minRichard Rodger is building with microservices. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Book: The Tao of Microservices The Microservice Manifesto, also discussed in episode 77 with Chase Aucoin https://crosscuttingconcerns.com/Podcast-077-Chase-Aucoin-Microservices-Manifesto Martin Fowler on microservices microservices.io Book: Building Microservices by Sam Newman Richard Rodger is on Twitter. Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willingness to talk about something technical. Music is by Joe Ferg, check out more music on JoeFerg.com!
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Podcast 096 - Sean Hunter on Aurelia
27/08/2018 Duration: 23minSean Hunter is using Aurelia to write incredible front-end web software. (Please forgive me if I make any typos, Aurelia is hard for me to type correctly, even when I’m staring right at the word). Special note: there is a free ebook giveaway within this episode (courtesy of Manning Books). Make sure to listen right away if want to win one of four free copies of Sean’s book! Show Notes: Book: Aurelia in Action - use coupon code crosspodaur18 for 40% off! Aurelia stuff discussed: Aurelia Router Aurelia CLI Aurelia UX Aurelia forums Aurelia.io/learn: resources to help you learn Aurelia! Backend mentioned: ASP.NET WebAPI Ruby on Rails Node with Express Other SPA frameworks mentioned: Backbone.js Angular 1 aka AngularJS ReactJS VueJS Angular 2+ aka Angular.io aka Angular Bootstrap Sean Hunter is on Twitter. Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willingness to talk about something technical. Music is by Joe Ferg, check
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Podcast 095 - Arthur Doler on Mental Health
20/08/2018 Duration: 20minArthur Doler is talking about Mental Health. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Check out episode 51 in the archives: Ed Finkler on Open Sourcing Mental Illness and check out OSMI The Department of Health and Human Services was mentioned. I think Arthur said region 6, but it looks like Nebraska is in region 7. Burnout was mentioned briefly, so also check out episode 50: Peter Piekarczyk on Burnout Project management methodologies mentioned: Waterfall (PDF), Scrum, agile The Restoration of James Madison’s Montpelier NDC Oslo: Let’s Talk About Mental Health "Gaslighting" is a type of mental abuse, coined from the stage play / movies of the same title. Video: Strong Than Fear by Ed Finkler Course: Mental health first aid. I found 11 of them within 100 miles of me, coming up over the next two months. ArthurDoler.com And don’t forget to check out Arthur’s last appearance on the show: Arthur Doler on Retrospectives Arthur Doler is on Twitter.
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Podcast 094 - Jeremy Miller on Lamar
13/08/2018 Duration: 18minJeremy Miller has created an open-source IoC tool called Lamar. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: StructureMap has been sunsetted Instead, consider Lamar for your IoC container needs. Nested containers At one point I was rambling about ASP.NET Core’s inability to use the service locator pattern. Some quick points: Don’t use Service Locator, there are lots of other better patterns to use. DO NOT DO IT. If you absolutely need it: here’s a blog post about it. I was incorrect in the podcast by making a sweeping statement about ASP.NET Core not having service locator. But for a very specific, narrow case where I wanted to use the service locator pattern recently, I was unable to do so. This might have been my own failing, or something that just isn’t possible with the built-in ASP.NET IoC. I have not tried this very specific, narrow use case with Lamar yet. I plugged my book, AOP in .NET yet again. Lamar is named after Mirabeau Lamar (a hero o
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Podcast 093 - Jeremy Miller on Jasper
06/08/2018 Duration: 17minJeremy Miller is using Jasper to distribute computing. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Nancy (NancyFx) was mentioned FubuMVC was mentioned too. TIBCO webMethods RabbitMQ as a "store and forward" queue (video) Azure Service Bus NServiceBus (from Particular Software) More on the Happy Meal metaphor from Jimmy Bogard The Oatmeal (comic) Jasper website - Jasper on Gitter Book: Enterprise Integration Patterns For more on Akka, check out episode 062 with Ted Neward Jeremy Miller is on Twitter. Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willingness to talk about something technical. Music is by Joe Ferg, check out more music on JoeFerg.com!
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Podcast 092 - Jake Taylor on TEALS
23/07/2018 Duration: 19minJake Taylor and TEALS are advancing computer science in schools. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: TEALS Microsoft Philanthropies The Snap programming language (and here’s a video tutorial on it) "AP" was mentioned several times, I assume that’s the Advanced Placement organization AP CS A course Jake is not on Twitter, but was kind enough to provide his email address in the episode. TEALS had a booth at KCDC. I snapped a few photos: Photo 1, Photo 2 A minor correction: in the podcast Jake states that they are in 31 states. They are actually in 27 states, Washington D.C., and British Columbia. TEALS is on Twitter. Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willingness to talk about something technical. Music is by Joe Ferg, check out more music on JoeFerg.com!
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Podcast 091 - Ondrej Balas on Blockchain
16/07/2018 Duration: 13minOndrej Balas is using Blockchain. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Blockchain I mentioned the Coase Theorem, because I wanted an excuse to put my MBA to use. Bitcoin is perhaps the most popular currency that uses blockchain. There are a couple different uses of the term "key frame" in video. I think Ondrej was referring to it as it’s used in video compression. Lightning is a way to decentralize bitcoin transactions to improve/increas throughput Proof of Work in blockchain Some recent news about the Delaware Blockchain Initiative Videos on Channel 9: An Introduction to Blockchain with Mark Russinovich Inside Coco Framework, the Foundation of Blockchain for Enterprise with Mark Russinovich THAT conference Ondrej Balas is on Twitter. Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willingness to talk about something technical. Music is by Joe Ferg, check out more music on JoeFerg.com!
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Podcast 090 - Cassandra Faris on Social Media
09/07/2018 Duration: 20minCassandra Faris is using social media. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Social networks discussed: Instagram Snapchat Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Incidentally, these are all great place to tell your friends that you listen to this podcast! Book: To Sell Is Human by Dan Pink Book: The Speed of Trust by Stephen M. Covey Conference: Dog Food Con Why "dogfooding"? From IEEE: Eating Your Own Dog Food Cassandra Faris is on Twitter, of course! Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willingness to talk about something technical. Music is by Joe Ferg, check out more music on JoeFerg.com!
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Podcast 089 - Steve Hicks on Speaking
02/07/2018 Duration: 18minSteve Hicks is speaking at conferences. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Mailing list: Technically Speaking by Chiu-Ki and Cate Speaking.io Cream City Code conference in Milwaukee THAT Conference Steve Hicks is on Twitter. Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willingness to talk about something technical. Music is by Joe Ferg, check out more music on JoeFerg.com!
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Podcast 088 - Chris Gardner on Running Conferences
25/06/2018 Duration: 15minChris Gardner is organizing the DevSpace conference. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Redstone Arsenal is a U.S. Army post The U.S. Space & Rocket Center is in Huntsville Company mentioned: Intergraph & Hexagon The "hallway conference" is a term referring the elements of a conference that take place outside of the normal breakout sessions. Follow-up conversations, networking, maybe even impromptu learning and hacking. We talked briefly about embedded development. Be sure to listen to Episode 083 with James Munns For another episode about conferences, be sure to check out Episode 040 with Matthew Revell The University of Alabama in Huntsville Other conference mentioned: Code PaLOUsa and THAT Conference "Gaines" was also mentioned. This is Gaines Kergosien, the director of Music City Tech, where this episode was recorded. And last but not least, Chris’s conference: DevSpace Chris Gardner is on Twitter. Want to be on the next episode? You can! All
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Podcast 087 - J Tower on Remote Work
18/06/2018 Duration: 19minJ Tower is working from home. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Coworking was discussed. Check out Global Coworking Map I believe the Steve Jobs quote referenced is: "A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players". You can hear a variation of it in this Steve Jobs video Some of the remote work news stories mentioned: Marissa Mayer: Yahoos can no longer work from home IBM, a Pioneer of Remote Work, Calls Workers Back to the Office Reddit Gives Remote Employees Until End Of Year To Relocate To San Francisco I think I mentioned GitHub in the podcast, but I may have been mistaken about that? I can’t find a news story about it. So, my mistake. Book: Remote: Office Not Required by Jason Fried and DHH Book: The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz J Tower’s company is Trailhead Technology Partners J wrote a blog post called Working from Home for Fun and Profit Don’t forget to check out Beer City Code. It
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Podcast 086 - Joel Lord on Passwordless Authentication
11/06/2018 Duration: 16minJoel Lord is using passwordless authentication. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Joel works for Auth0 xkcd comic called "password strength" Check out episode 71, Bill Sempf talking about security in the movie 'Sneakers' Slack uses a 'magic link' passwordless system What is a dongle? There are a lot of security dongles, here’s one called ChaosKey. The Auth0 blog Joel’s site: JavaScriptEverything.com Joel Lord is on Twitter. Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willingness to talk about something technical. Music is by Joe Ferg, check out more music on JoeFerg.com!
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Podcast 085 - ColdFusion Panel (LIVE!)
04/06/2018 Duration: 28minThe first LIVE episode of Cross Cutting Concerns, recorded at the Into the Box conference with a panel of guests. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. The panel: Rakshith Naresh (Senior Product Manager at Adobe) is on Twitter. Mark Drew (CMD) is on Twitter Brad Wood (Ortus Solutions) is on Twitter and can be summoned "like Beetlejuice" by just saying "ColdFusion" on Twitter. Luis Majano (Ortus Solutions) is on Twitter. Show Notes: Coldbox CommandBox Event: ColdFusion Summit Shop.com was mentioned Layer 7 was mentioned, I believe that is part of a different company now. ColdFusion API Manager and ColdFusion Server Monitor were mentioned (along with Performance Monitoring Toolset) Book: Learn Modern ColdFusion (CFML) in 100 Minutes Training: Learn CF in a Week Exercism.io Course on CFML CFML Slack Team ColdFusion Community Portal ColdFusion Fiddle Try ColdFusion ForgeBox which is the "npm" of ColdFusion. A couple of the odd named packages were CommandBox Chu
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Podcast 084 - David Neal on Drawing
28/05/2018 Duration: 18minDavid Neal is taking over Twitter with his drawing. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Video: Dan Roam, Show and Tell (at Google) Book: Show and Tell by Dan Roam Event: Orlando Code Camp Tools: iPad Pro with Apple Pencil Also mentioned: Microsoft Surface Pro with Stylus Video on "palm rejection" David mentioned Sketches Pro (aka Tayasui Sketches Pro, I think) He also mentioned Adobe Draw (aka Adobe Illustrator Draw, I think) The Slash guitar player drawing Buy stuff from David, including T-Shirts like "Employees Must Wash Hands After Using JavaScript" shirt Books: Mike Rohde books on Sketechnote Check out ReverentGeek.com blog David Neal is on Twitter. Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willingness to talk about something technical. Music is by Joe Ferg, check out more music on JoeFerg.com!
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Podcast 083 - James Munns on Embedded Development
21/05/2018 Duration: 18minJames Munns is an embedded developer. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: ARM (aka Advanced RISC Machine, Acorn RISC Machine) is a RISC architecture for processors. You probably have dozens of them in your house right now. Check out episode 12 of the podcast where I talked to Sophie Wilson, the designer of ARM James Munns’s blog Blog Post: CI for Embedded Systems, which covers some of the testing that was discussed Podcast: Embedded.fm hosted by Elecia and Christopher White. Podcast: New Rustacean hosted by Chris Krycho The Rust Embedded Working Group James Munns is on Twitter. Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willingness to talk about something technical. Music is by Joe Ferg, check out more music on JoeFerg.com!