Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast

Doc Norton talks about the experimentation mindset. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Slides from Doc’s presentation on the experimentation mindset XP = eXtreme Programming Other methodologies that fall into the "agile" category: Scrum, Lean Kent Beck, Ron Jeffries, and Ward Cunningham were all mentioned. They are all signers of the Agile Manifesto. Chris Argyris was mentioned in regards to single-loop and double-loop learning Book: Escape Velocity by Doc Norton - it has increased in price since the recording. It will now set you back at least 5 entire dollars. Supplemental links from Doc: CTO2 DocOnDev Collaboration Contracts Refactoring Code Smells Video: Experimentation Mindset Mob Programming Learning through experimentation PDF: How Organizations Learn From Harvard Business Review: Collective Genius Argyris: Teaching Smart People how to Learn (and PDF version) A/B Testing and the Experimentation Culture Enlightened Experimentati

Calvin Allen talks with me on a variety of topics. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: I think Calvin may have done some rebranding since we recorded. Check out CalvinAllen83 on Twitch. Streaming services mentioned: Mixer, YouTube, and Twitch. restream.io, which I’m now using for…​ Couchbase Coding with Matt Groves, a show where I’m streaming daily. Jeff Fritz’s live stream: Fritz and Friends SQLite Toolbox Visual Studio extension Visual Studio extensions by Mads Kristensen Calvin’s Open in Notepad++ extension (GitHub), Couchbase extension on GitHub I used the term MVP in this episode to mean Minimum Viable Product Netlify GatsbyJS Man-in-the-middle attack SSL Labs rating Calvin Allen 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!

Craig Stuntz is manipulating .NET IL. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Craig Stuntz was the second guest I ever had on the show. Check out Podcast 002 - Craig Stuntz on Idris Craig was at CodeMash presenting with these slides JIT = Just-in-time (compilation) RuJIT was mentioned I dare you to keep these straight: ILAsm.exe - IL Assembler ILDasm - IL Disassembler ILASM FxCop I don’t think he mentioned it by name, but I think Fizil is the fuzzer that he’s working on. SQLite created by Dr. D. Richard Hipp Mono.Cecil, part of the Mono project. DNLib is another similar tool. Sure, I’ll plug my book again, since we mentioned AOP. AOP in .NET Obfuscation is a technique to prevent people from reverse engineering/tampering with your code. Dotfuscator is one of the tools that comes to mind. Blog post: "type erasure" in Java Blog post: tail calls in F# The "goat behind door number 2" is a reference to the Monty Hall Paradox (which is a great

Jeffrey Miller wrote a children’s book. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: The book: SkeeterBooks.com. Buy it and leave a review! Published and distributed by Columbus Publishing Lab What is a TRS-80? The finest piece of affordable computing that the 80s had to offer, that’s what! DeVry University eHarmony (dating site) We mentioned two publishing companies that I got mixed up: Leanpub and The Pragmatic Bookshelf (PragProg) Jim Holmes’s book, The Leadership Journey, is on Leanpub. Author: Seth Godin who is very prolific. I think I’ve ready a measly one of his books, but I don’t remember which one. MVP (minimum viable product) Sure, I’ll plug my book again: AOP in .NET (I would also appreciate a review) There are a lot of Mastermind groups, like Columbus Mastermind Group Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Amazon’s Kingle Direct Publishing (KDP) Dale Herron, illustrator of Skeeters B

Andrea Cremese wrote a dissertation on developer motivation. Show Notes: Dissertation: - Managing Software Engineer’s Engagement and the Psychological Contract to Promote Innovation: A Review of the Current Trends in the American Technology Industry. Frederick Herzberg talks about "hygiene factors" in the book: Motivation to Work Check out episode 36 on the film Pirates of Silicon Valley for some talk about Xerox PARC Some positive examples, per Andrea: Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft Amazon Smartsheet Glassdoor is a site where employees review their employer. I’m not terribly keen on it, especially when there is a small sample size, but it could be a useful tool in some situations. Dan Ariely was mentioned, check out his TED talk What makes us feel good about our work? Some quotes regarding Ariely that Andrea wanted me to share: Large Stakes and Big Mistakes, (Dan Ariely one of the authors), quote: "Workers in a wide variety of jobs are paid based on performance, w

Chase Aucoin has created a microservices manifesto. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: The Microservice Manifesto South Florida Code Camp Some acronyms mentioned: SOA (Service-oriented architecture) is a broad topic, but here’s a little article on the History of SOA ERP (Enterprise resource planning), examples you may have heard of include Microsoft Dynamics, PeopleSoft, SAP ESB (Enterprise service bus), examples you have have heard of include Microsoft BizTalk, Azure Service Bus, WebSphere ESB, and many others. CI/CD - Continuous Integration (in a nutshell: build automation) / Continuous Deployment (in a nutshell: deploying software to production on a frequent basis) RabbitMQ - an open-source message broker Docker - a container platform "Waterfall" is typically used disparagingly to describe a "big design up front" approach to creating software, as opposed to an iterative "agile" approach. Azure Service Fabric libraries for .NET February was Marfan&rsq

David Giard is using Microsoft’s Vision Cognitive Services. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Check out the last time David was on the show discussing some of the other cognitive services Short URL: microsoft.com/cognitive We discussed facial recognition and security, be sure to check out episode 71 with Bill Sempf for more on that topic. Custom Vision David Giard’s collection of cognitive services resources David’s CognitiveSvcsDemos repository on Github Be sure to check out David’s show, Technology and Friends, which is an excellent show and a direct inspiration for this very podcast. David Giard 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!

Andrea Cremese is building and using Saas. Show Notes: The Henry Ford quote appears to be apocryphal: Henry Ford, Innovation, and That “Faster Horse” Quote Services mentioned: wework and Galvanize Podcast: The Top by Nathan Latka The SAAS Cheatsheet Interview with Aaron Levy, the CEO of box Movie: Abacus: small enough to jail Andrea Cremes 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!

Jeffrey Miller is using Neo4j. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Neo4j CosmosDB on Azure Columbus Graphistas meetup GraphConnect conference Neo4j youtube channel Magic: The Gathering is a collectible card game that I once sunk a lot of money into Michael Hunger developer relations with Neo4j GraphGists Software developer process model Book: Skeeters book, also available on Amazon link: Presentation slides by Jeffrey Jeffrey 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!

Scott Drake is hiring programmers. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: CodeStock is April 20-21 in Knoxville, TN CodePaLOUsa is in Louisville, KY, March 28-30th. Book: The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong Book: Multipliers by Liz Wiseman Blog post: 8 Factors That Reveal if a Programmer Will Fit Your Team and Organization Book: Drive by Daniel Pink Book: The Programmer Hiring Playbook LearnLeadership.org Scott Drake 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!

Stephen Cleary is writing Azure Functions. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: The Stack Overflow answer that prompted this podcast Lazy<T> Be sure to check out LazyThreadSafetyMode in the documentation (Stephen recommended PublicationOnly mode) Stephen’s AsyncEx project Stephencleary.com Book: Concurrency in C# Cookbook Stephen Toub blog Jon Skeet’s EduAsync series Microsoft docs on Azure Functions Azure Functions issues on Github Spend some time with your family! Stephen Cleary 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!

Bill Sempf and I watched a movie called Sneakers. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. This is an extra-large, jumbo-sized, special episode of Cross Cutting Concerns. There's just too much awesome in Sneakers to fit in a 15 minute episode. But don't worry, I'll be back to regular length episodes starting next week! Show Notes: Sneakers is a 1992 movie. If you haven't seen it yet, go watch it first, because this podcast contains spoilers! It's available to stream on Amazon, and it is well worth a purchase. Check out the incredible cast on IMDb (and also peek at the trivia section) An interview with Bob Abbott RSA - named after Rivest, Shamir, Adleman Intel's 49 qubit chip Fluhrer, Mantin, and Shamir attack on RC4 Book: Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard by Matt Curtin We mentioned: Dark Web, Deep Web, Tor, look it up OSINT Framework by Justin Nordine Blue Team vs Red Team Conferences: CodeMash, DerbyCon David Kennedy segment on CNN Money Po

Tim Wingfield is using lots of APIs. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: FireEye Ruby on Rails REST: REpresentational State Transfer CRUD: Create, Read, Update, Delete HTTP Request Methods: PUT, POST, GET, PATCH, DELETE Tim Wingfield 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!

Correl Roush is back to talk about Elm. Show Notes: This is Correl's second episode. Be sure to check out the Erlang episode Elm website Haskell site Evan Czaplicki on Github Book: Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks No Red Ink Richard Feldman on Github Text editors mentions: Atom, Emacs Elm-package command line tool Book: Elm in Action by Richard Feldman Elm slack channel Video: Time traveling debugger with a Mario platforming game Correl Roush 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!

Rachel Andrew is a member of the CSS Working Group and is working with CSS Grids. Show Notes: Rachel Andrew's site Book: The New CSS Layout Flexbox MDN documentation Bootstrap CSS Working Group drafts on Github: CSS grid level 1, CSS grid level 2 Grid by Example Jen Simmons (of Mozilla) CSS Grid labs Rachel Andrew writing on Smashing Magazine Newsletter: CSS Layout.news Rachel Andrew's Wikipedia page Rachel Andrew 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!

That's a wrap on 40 episodes of the Cross Cutting Concerns podcast for season 2. I'm going to take a break from recording over the holiday season, and resume posting new episodes in February 2018. If you want to be a guest next season, you can! Just: Click Here to Sign up to be on my Podcast! Instead of sitting at your computer and hitting F5 waiting for a new episode, why don't you check out some other podcasts? Below are some recommendations. These aren't tech podcasts (though EconTalk does occasionally venture in this area), they are just for funsies: EconTalk from Russ Roberts Retronauts with hosts Bob Mackey and Jeremy Parish Dr. Gameshow with hosts Jo Firestone and Manola Moreno. Ohhhh yeah. 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back with hosts Michael J. Nelson and Conor Lastowka Movie Sign With the Mads with Hosts Frank Conniff, Trace Beaulieu, and the tremendously patient and upbeat Carolina Hidalgo The background music for this episode is God Rest Ye Merry gentlemen by New Aging Sons.

Matt Bok is back yet again (again!) for an extra long, extra special episode. (Check out episode 16 and episode 26 for his previous episodes). Just in time for the holiday season, we discuss the SNES Classic, NES Classic, Nintendo Switch, Atari Box, and other stuff. Tons of show notes: The NES Classic and SNES Classic Virtua Racing (used the "SVP" chip) Panzer Dragoon Super Mario Advance series Super Mario Advance = Super Mario Bros. 2 Super Mario Advance 2 = Super Mario World Super Mario Advance 3 = Yoshi's Island (aka Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island) Super Mario Advance 4 = Super Mario Bros. 3 SNES had a "mode 7" feature, you can learn about it and F-Zero in this video by Jeremy Parish Games that Matt mentioned as notable "omissions" from the SNES classic: Donkey Kong Country 2 Donkey Kong Country 3 Super Mario All-Stars Zombies Ate My Neighbors Super Tecmo Bowl Earthworm Jim TMNT IV Super Star Wars NBA Jam Super Tennis NCAA Basketball Super Play Action Footb

Sam Nasr is all about getting involved with user groups. Show Notes: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group (meetup) SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Hyland Software Xamarin Dev Days Central Ohio .NET Developers Group (CONDG) Tech Elevator Code School NextPlex Meetup.com Sam was kind enough to provide his email address in the podcast Sam Nasr is on Twitter. Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willingness to talk about something technical. Theme music is "Crosscutting Concerns" by The Dirty Truckers, check out their music on Amazon or iTunes.

Patrick Smacchia is building NDepend to make refactoring and technical debt decisions easier. Show Notes: The code base I used to try out NDepend is the Couchbase .NET SDK NDepend Zone of Pain, Zone of Uselessness CQLinq LINQpad TFS, TeamCity, Jenkins Pluralsight: Practical NDepend by Erik Dietrich Scott Hanselman: Exiting the Zone of Pain NDepend is on Twitter. Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willingness to talk about something technical. Theme music is "Crosscutting Concerns" by The Dirty Truckers, check out their music on Amazon or iTunes.

Ted Neward is transpiling other languages to JavaScript. Show Notes: CFront, a C++ to C transpiler. I found an interview with Bjarne Stroustrup (archive.org link) that mentions CFront on its 30 year anniversary Emscripten / asm.js WebAssembly CoffeeScript / Ruby on Rails Microsoft and Google collaborate on Angular 2 Anders Hejlsberg Kotlin can transpile to JavaScript (check out Episode 057 with Michael Yotive on Kotlin) Fantom Dart NaCl (and PNaCl) for Chrome TypeScript Smartsheet (Smartsheet Developer Portal) Book: Compilers: Principles, Techniques, & Tools (aka "The Dragon Book") ANTLR Ted Neward is on Twitter. Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willingness to talk about something technical. Theme music is "Crosscutting Concerns" by The Dirty Truckers, check out their music on Amazon or iTunes.