The Cynical Developer

In this episode we are talking about learning to code and changing careers will Ed Hazledine Contacting Ed Hazeldine Website: https://edthecoder.dev/ Twitter: https://aqoc.dev/ed_the_coder A question of code Podcast Website: https://aqoc.dev/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/aqocode

In this episode we talk with Aaron Upright, about creativity for developers, yes you can be creative! Contacting Aaron Upright Website: https://www.zenhub.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronupright/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ImAaronUpright Contacting Zen Hub LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/4820421/admin/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZenHubHQ

In this episode we are joined by Juval Löwy to discuss the question Do Developers needs Architects? Contacting Juval Löwy website: https://www.idesign.net/

Contacting Anthony Cosgrave website: https://imtoospexy.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/anthonycosgrave A study currently being run by the NHS in the UK to gather data about Inflammatory Bowel Disease https://www.predicct.co.uk/ Good examples of recent and new social/socially assistive robots: http://stevietherobot.com/ https://diligentrobots.com/moxi/ https://www.herts.ac.uk/kaspar https://www.f...

In this episode we are talking about why projects fail with Ron Lichty and Mickey Mantle. Contacting Ron Lichty: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ronlichty Website: https://ronlichty.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronlichty/ Contacting Mickey Mantle: Website: http://mmantle.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmantle/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mwmantleCA Managing the Unmanagable...

In this episode we are at Percone Live Europe, we are joined by Pavel Genov and we are here to talk about migrating from on prem and dedicated servers to cloud.   Contact Jobin Augustine: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jobinaugustine/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jobinau github: https://github.com/jobinau/ WIN - The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition Sign up and win a digital co...

In this episode we are at Percone Live Europe, we are joined by Pavel Genov and we are here to talk about migrating from on prem and dedicated servers to cloud.   Contact Pavel Genov: Twitter: https://twitter.com/pafelin Github: https://github.com/pafelin LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pavel-genov-84817549/ Website: https://www.pepper.com/ WIN - The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Ed...

In this Episode we are at Percona Live Europe, and we're joined today by Dimitri Vanoverbeke and Tom De Cooman, we discuss MySQL and if its still something we sould be interested in.   Contact Dimitri Vanoverbeke: Twitter: https://twitter.com/dim0   Contact Tom De Cooman: Twitter: https://twitter.com/tomdecooman WIN - The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition Sign up and win a digital cop...

In this Episode we are at Percona Live Europe, and we're joined today by Matt Yonkovit and we're here to discuss Automation, is it making our jobs easier or more complicated, is it making our software better or worse?   Contact Matt Yonkovit: Website: http://www.dowonky.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MYonkovit LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/myonk WIN - The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anni...

In this episode I wanted to talk about Percona live and also living in your own developer bubble. WIN - The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition Sign up and win a digital copy of The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition Enter at the following URL: https://cynical.dev/pragmaticprogrammer01 Links Percona Live: Percona Live Europe 2019

In this episode we talk to Robert C. Martin, many of you might know him as Uncle Bob, and we're here to talk Agile and taking it back to basics. Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) has been a programmer since 1970. He is the Master Craftsman at 8th Light inc, a Chicago based Software Consulting firm. Co-founder of cleancoders.com , offering on-line video training for software developers. And founder of U...

In this episode we discuss Kubernetes and Docker with Ben Newton. Ben Newton is a veteran of the IT Operations market, with a two decade career across large and small companies like Loudcloud, BladeLogic, Northrop Grumman, EDS, and BMC. Ben got to do DevOps before DevOps was cool, working with government agencies and major commercial brands to be more agile and move faster. More recently, Ben spen...

In this episode we talk to Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas about Pragmatic Programming, and the release of the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Pragmatic Programmer   Contact Andy Hunt: Twitter: https://twitter.com/PragmaticAndy Website: https://toolshed.com/   Contact Dave Thomas: Website: https://pragdave.me/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/pragdave   Other Links: The Pragmatic Bookshelf: https://pragprog...

In this episode we talk to Guy Royse about Web Assembly (WASM), Blazor, and board games   Contact Guy Royse: Website: http://guy.dev Twitter: https://twitter.com/groyse LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/groyse/ GitHub: https://github.com/guyroyse   Other Links: WebAssembly Website: https://webassembly.org/ MDN WASM Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly WABT: The WebAssembl...

In this episode I wanted to talk about getting stuff done, and in particular one of the methods I use to keep going. If you're a regular listener you will know I don't do down time, I'm constantly doing something, I have to keep myself busy or I get bored. I'm always chasing something, trying to learn something new or building something.  

In this episode we are joined by Jamie Taylor of the .Net Core Podcast , and Paul Seal from CodeShare.co.uk We're here to discuss being a better, more effective developer, and what makes you a bad developer.   PVS STUDIO - PROMOTION Download here PVS-Studio NOW! This episode is sponsored by the PVS-Studio team, who promote static code analysis methodology in general and its PVS-Studio tools in par...

Contact Ian Johnson: Website: https://blog.ninjaferret.co.uk/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/IJohnson_TNF Blog: https://blog.ninjaferret.co.uk/2017/06/07/sketch-notes.html   Other Links: Abstractions Conference: https://abstractions.io Eva-Lotta Lamm - Twitter: https://twitter.com/evalottchen Mike Rohde - Twitter: https://twitter.com/rohdesign Other Resources The Sketchnote Handbook: the illustrated...

In this episode we talk about Developer Conferences with Sarah Withee. Sarah is a polyglot software engineer who loves the intersection of where people and technology meet, she is also an avid hardware and robot tinkerer located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the USA. Sarah is also a public speaker, who has captivated audiences with both popular and powerful technical and anecdotal talks. Her tale...

In this episode we talk to Richie Coss about changing careers from welder to a web developer. Richie trained as a fabricator and worked in that profession for a decade before finding his true passion as a front end developer. His interest in front end leans heavily towards the UI/CSS side of the discipline. For the past 18 months he has worked in the North West of the UK as a Front End contractor....

This episode was recorded live at the Chester Devs - Junior Developer Event in Chester, United Kingdom. If you would like the Cynical Developer to speak at your local meetup, then get in touch and we'll see what we can do. More about Chester Devs: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChesterDevs Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Chester-Devs/ Github: https://github.com/ChesterDevs  

In this episode we find out about developing games with MonoGame with Andy Clarke. Andy develops software for Protolabs, who use 3D printing and traditional manufacturing techniques to rapidly create prototype parts. He is the co-runner of the Shropshire Devs usergroup based in Telford, Shropshire Contacting Andy Clarke: Twitter: https://twitter.com/theMagicWeasel Website: http://weaselware.net/ G...

In this episode we are joined by Andrew Kelly, who is here to talk to us about Well-Architected Web Applications. Andrew is a web developer from Cheshire in the UK, who currently works as a Technical Team Lead. Andy has been a web developer for over 15 years specialising in .net core and more recently AWS. He has a passion for everything cloud and will shortly be broadening his experience as a pla...

In this episode we discuss a journey to and from Development, with Paddy Kearns. Paddy is a Senior .NET Developer based in Nottingham, where he spends his days coding with VB.net, C# Webforms and MVC. He has been a developer for many years, but took a break in between to follow a music career, and then came back. Contacting Paddy Kearns Twitter: https://twitter.com/paddy_kearns LinkedIn: https://u...

In this episode we find out about GraphQL, and here to talk to us is Vladimir Novick Vladimir is a Developer advocate at hasura.io , a Google Developer Expert, a consultant, a worldwide speaker, a published author, he is host of the 3factorRadio podcast and he also contributes regularly to Open Source Software. Vladimir brings years of experience within the JavaScript ecosystem and has been coding...

In this episode I will be dicussing a topic which its pretty irritating to say the least, rolling your own solution to a common problem!