no dogma podcast

Summary Gary Marcos tells about the differences between mobile app and website development. Details Why build a mobile app instead of a web site designed for mobile, usability, approaches to app development for teams with no experience in app development – near shore vs offshore, costs of app development, launching into a store, maintaining an app, crash analytics, post launch issues, redeploying...

Summary Bill Wilder, Microsoft Azure MVP tells me about the Azure plaform. Details Differences from traditional development, reliable queues, automation and devops, security, cloud computing vs alternatives, green data centres, scaling, test and deployment, costs and licensing, Azure over the past four years, active directory, SQL services, growth of services – mobile services, hadoop, caching, me...

Summary Wide ranging discussion with Bob Downey of Galen Healthcare about software development practices. Details Who his, what he does. Architecture, book theory vs practical considerations, refactoring in a business environment, how software grows, development and collaboration across multiple offices, promotion in development groups, decision making, technology choices, cloud platforms, keeping...

Summary Anthony van der Hoorn and Nik Molnar tell me about the amazing Glimpse project. Details We chat about the origins of Glimpse, what it does, how it works and where it is going.