Happy Path Programming

Culture - the hidden force that sometimes reveals itself through code reviews. What is it & how does it form / change? Also, Developer Marketing and how most companies do it wrong. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Change happens, but slowwwwly. How can we accelerate the adoption of new & better programming language features? Should we? Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Software architectures, organizational management, hiring practices, and many other normal part of life give us an illusion of control.  But is there another way? Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Bruce and James have struggled with Gradle for years and Bruce this week blogged about some of his gripes: The Problem with Gradle . This prompted a lengthy response from Cédric Champeau . James has mostly stuck to Java 8 and Bruce is exploring Java 11. Finally, James rants about SemVer for the 3.1.4'th time. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

James, as a Scala "True Believer," talks about his experiences with Kotlin and how they compare to Scala. Then he switches gears to rant about runtime reflection which leads to a deeper conversation about meta-programming and alternatives to runtime reflection. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Bruce shares exciting news about completing the Atomic Kotlin book. The rest is a mishmash of topics related to newsworthy announcements including Spring Boot Cloud Event support, Serverless + TestContainer + Kubernetes Cassandra support, and Scala ZIO CLI. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Most developers have been exposed to inheritance based polymorphism but there are other ways to deal with overlapping functionality. In this episode we talk about ad-hoc polymorphism, parametric polymorphism, and type classes. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Python usage surpasses Java to second place on the Tiobe Index (behind C). Is developer productivity the primary driver? We then switch gears to talk about the concept of "Making Illegal States Unrepresentable" where James continues his crusade against the Builder Pattern. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Our friend Joey Gibson joins us to talk about Smalltalk, the well known grandfather of Object Oriented Programming.  James is assigned some homework to get a Smalltalk web app running on Google Cloud Run, which he did (after recording). Check out the source: https://github.com/jamesward/hello-pharo Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

We start off discussing what the future of programming might be... Can developers stop thinking about resource limitations?  Can we make the "right path" easy?  Then we dive into Inner Source and the organizational & cultural challenges with adopting it. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

We start off talking about Cloud Native Buildpacks and Containers which of-course leads to James trying to explain Kubernetes.  Then we dive into what "Happy Path Programming" means and how, while the term is somewhat derogatory, it is what we ultimately want.  We end with a discussion about Bruce's recent explorations into Rust and gRPC. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Long-time Java author & expert, Cedric Beust, joins us to revisit some of the topics from our Kotlin episodes.  We talk more deeply about checked exceptions, null safety, the builder pattern, build systems, and of-course Monads. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

What are the reasons to adopt or migrate to a new technology?  What prevents you from doing so?  We explore that question and the differences between green-field and brown-field.  Then we finally dive deep into Monads trying to conquer the Curse of the Monad. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

James officially launches his crusade against custom declarative languages and then we bike-shed about bike-shedding; exploring ways to make decisions for trivial problems. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

We begin by talking about personal developer productivity but then expand the scope to "collective" / team productivity.  This leads us to grapple with some challenging ideas around Agile, non-violent communication, organization structures, diversity, and inclusion. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

In this episode we discuss things that are often overlooked in developer experience and what underlying values make developer experience an afterthought. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

A bike-shedless discussion about nulls, algebraic data types, and code formatting. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

In episode 2 we continue the conversation about Kotlin, things we enjoy and things that could be better. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

In our first episode we discuss features of the Kotlin programming language that we like. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF