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 022 - J. Tower on .NET Core
07/11/2016 Duration: 15minJ. Tower is answering all my burning questions about .NET and .NET Core Show Notes: .NET Core The .NET Standard ASP.NET Core Trailhead Technology Partners J. Tower 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.
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Podcast 021 - Latish Sehgal on Bootstrapping Your Side Project
31/10/2016 Duration: 09minLatish Sehgal is boostrapping his side project. Show Notes: SqlSmash productivity tool for SQL developers Derek Sivers: Ideas are just a multiplier of execution The story of the "20 Mile March" is explored in Jim Collins's book, Great by Choice Latish's blog is at DotNetSurfers.com, and he blogged Random Thoughts and Lessons Learned From Bootstrapping a Side Project Latish Sehgal 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.
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Podcast 020 - George Mauer on the Future of the Web
24/10/2016 Duration: 15minGeorge Mauer is making predictions about the future of the web by looking at its history. Show notes: Surge Overview of SGML WebAssembly (aka wasm) Isomorphic JavaScript The Languages Which Almost Became CSS DSSSL (aka "diesel") The Scheme programming language GeorgeMauer.net George Mauer 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.
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Podcast 019 - Steven Swenson on Encryption
17/10/2016 Duration: 18minSteven Swenson is encrypting and hashing with .NET. Show notes: Steven Swenson's blog Book: Cryptography Engineering, Design Principles and Practical Applications, by Bruce Schneier Adam Caudill Risky Business podcast libsodium crypto library Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) CodeStock conference in Knoxville Azure Identity Services bcrypt is available on NuGet scrypt is available on GitHub and NuGet Steven Swenson 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.
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Podcast 018 - Jen Dewalt on Backbone
10/10/2016 Duration: 13minJen Dewalt is using Backbone at her startup! Show notes: Backbonejs.org (source code) Jen's Startup: Zube The Chrome Inspector is one of the DevTools built into Google Chrome Blog post from Aaron O'Connel: How to Structure and Render Views in Backbone 180 Websites in 180 Days project (which was discussed in the previous podcast with Jen Dewalt) Jen Dewalt 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.
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Podcast 017 - Jen Dewalt on the 180 Websites Project
03/10/2016 Duration: 16minJen Dewalt created 180 websites in 180 days! Show notes: The 180 Websites in 180 Days Project Jen's startup: Zube Some sites that were mentioned in the podcast: Day 8: More Drop Shadow Day 178: How We're Feeling Day 115 (When the project was submitted to Hacker News): Splodin' Bacon Some of my favorites: Day 2: Make a Deal (which demonstrates the Monty Hall paradox, which I love!) Day 146: Ransom Note Generator (which I used to make the above picture) Day 31: Endless Throbbers Jen Dewalt on Github Jen Dewalt 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.
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Podcast 016 - Matt Bok on Retro Gaming Tech
26/09/2016 Duration: 18minMatt Bok is back again, and he discusses retro games and a few tech products that retro gamers might want to check out. Show notes: Racing the Beam, a book about the amazing stuff that Atari developers were able to do with extremely primitive hardware. Hyperkin, the makers of the Retron 3 and the Retron 5 Return of the Jedi arcade game. I love the voice samples in this game. 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.
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Podcast 015 - David Giard on Developer Community
19/09/2016 Duration: 16minDavid Giard (back again!) and your humble narrator talk about what the developer community is and why it's so great. Show notes: I don't really have any specific links for this podcast. But I recommend that you go to meetup.com or your search engine of choice. Find yourself at least one local developer group that discusses a topic that interests you. Go to at least one meeting. Tell me (and David) how it went. David Giard 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.
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Podcast 014 - Calvin Allen on AppVeyor
12/09/2016 Duration: 10minCalvin Allen is a developer who is using AppVeyor for CI on his open source projects. Show notes: AppVeyor Martin Fowler's intro to Continuous Integration Mads Kristensen's blog (the "master of VS Extensiblity") YAML (Yaml Ain't Markup Language) AppVeyor docs on AppVeyor.yml Calvin Allen 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.
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Podcast 013 - Kevin Griffin on Twilio
05/09/2016 Duration: 13minKevin Griffin is using Twilio to control the phones. Show notes: Twilio Twilio Blueprint (available for pre-order) DevConnections 2016 in Las Vegas KevGriffin.com (blog) HR (Hampton Roads) DevFest in Virginia Kevin Griffin 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.
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Podcast 012 - Sophie Wilson on Acorn, ARM, BASIC
29/08/2016 Duration: 23minSophie Wilson designed the Acorn Micro-Computer, the BBC BASIC programming language, and the ARM (Acorn RISC Machine) processor instruction set. Her engineering literally surrounds us every day. This is an extra-special edition of the Cross Cutting Concerns podcast! Once I got Sophie on the line, I didn't want to hang up, so the episode is a bit longer than my normal episode length. Also, the recording was done over a regular phone line instead of a VoIP line, so you will notice that in Sophie's audio. 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.
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Podcast 011 - Kelsey Hightower on Kubernetes Bootstrapping
22/08/2016 Duration: 10minKelsey Hightower is working with the Kubernetes team to improve the product through user empathy and dogfooding. Show notes: This is the tweet that inspiried me to contact Kelsey Kubernetes Kelsey Hightower 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.
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Podcast 010 - David Neal on Electron
15/08/2016 Duration: 10minDavid Neal is writing cross-platform desktop apps with Electron! Show notes: Electron NW.js (previously known as node-webkit) Qt Xamarin Awesome Electron on Github 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. Theme music is "Crosscutting Concerns" by The Dirty Truckers, check out their music on Amazon or iTunes.
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Podcast 009 - Correl Roush on Erlang
08/08/2016 Duration: 13minCorrel Roush is using Erlang to develop fault-tolerant, scalable phone systems. Show notes: Erlang.org (IRC channel on Freenode, Erlang mailing lists) Erlang: The Movie (YouTube) Learn You Some Erlang, by Fred Hebert How I Start: Erlang, also by Fred Hebert Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP, by Francesco Cesarini and Steve Vinoski Comparable tools: Akka, Golang, Elixir Abstractions.io conference 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. Theme music is "Crosscutting Concerns" by The Dirty Truckers, check out their music on Amazon or iTunes.
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Podcast 008 - Dan Shultz on Data Visualization
01/08/2016 Duration: 12minDan Shultz is using d3.js, dc.js, and other tools to visualize data. Show notes: d3js.org - Data Driven Documents dc.js - Dimensional Charting Highcharts / AnyChart Parallel Coordinate Chart - I found an interesting example at Columbia.edu. Dashing D3 - newsletter, training, tutorials Dan's blog: Dan vs Machine Dan's employer: Clarivoy Dan Shultz is on Twitter He has some apps in the various markets, check them out: Microsoft Amazon Google Play 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.
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Podcast 007 - Matt Bok on Home Automation
25/07/2016 Duration: 15minMatt Bok is a technologist who wants to "Star Trek-ify" his house. Show notes: Amazon Echo Philips Hue MiCasaVerde forums Matt Bok has written some books/screenplays: Anger, Theft, Murder, and Other Niceties and The Meaning of Being Lonely, both available on Lulu! 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.
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Podcast 006 - David Giard on Cognitive Services
18/07/2016 Duration: 12minDavid Giard is a developer evangelist for Microsoft who has some ideas for how to use Cognitive Services. Show notes: Microsoft Cognitive Services (formerlly known as Project Oxford) David Giard's resources for learning about Cognitive Services The Technology and Friends Show David Giard 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.
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Podcast 005 - Vance Feldman on ForeverScape
11/07/2016 Duration: 15minVance Feldman is a developer and an artist who faced technical challenges when bringing his ForeverScape artwork to mobile devices. Show notes: ForeverScape (content may not be SFW) Available Now on Google Play! Available Now on iTunes! Haxe cross-platform toolkit Ionic framework Apache Cordova Azure Table Storage Azure Functions Lob API for postcards ForeverScape on Twitter ForeverScape on Instagram ForeverScape on Etsy ForeverScape on Amazon If you're interested in Henry Darger, check out this clip from NPR's All Things Considered. If you're interested in SuperJail, you can watch it on Adult Swim. 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.
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Podcast 004 - Calvin Allen on Chocolatey NuGet
04/07/2016 Duration: 13minCalvin Allen is a developer who is using Chocolatey NuGet to automate the setup of development environments and is also creating Chocolatey packages of his own. Show notes: Chocolatey NuGet Chocolatey on GitHub Calvin mentioned these Chocolatey packages IrfanView (IrfanView home page) Couchbase Server (Couchbase home page) Calvin's profile on Chocolatey The Talking Devs podcast (Twitter) Code Bytes TV (YouTube) Calvin Allen 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.
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Podcast 003 - Dave Glick on wyam
27/06/2016 Duration: 14minDave Glick talks about Wyam and static content generators. Show notes: wyam.io wyam on Github Microsoft's Roslyn compiler Dave Glick 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.