The Cynical Developer

In this episode I wanted to talked about pivoting in your career, and here to talk with us is Zac Braddy. Contacting Zac Braddy Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZackerTheHacker Github: https://github.com/zacbraddy CV: https://zackerthehacker.com/ Medium: https://medium.com/@zacharybraddy React in motion course: https://www.manning.com/livevideo/react-in-motion 40% Discount code off React in motion cou...

In this episode we will be talking about Blazor, Jamie Taylor is hear to explain what all the fuss is about. Jamie is a full stack .Net developer, with a focus on web cross platform. He lives and works in Leeds in the UK and he has become the go to guy for .Net Core at his workplace. And as some of you will be aware Jamie came on the podcast back on episode 8 and episode 62 where we talk about .Ne...

In this episode we have something a little different for you, we are coming to you from NDC { London }, and I am joined by Steve Gordon and Jon Galloway. We will be discussing the current state of .net and it's future. Useful Links .NET Foundation:  https://dotnetfoundation.org/ .NET Core GIT:  https://github.com/dotnet/core .NET Core Getting Started:  https://dotnet.github.io/ Download .NET:  htt...

In this episode we talk to Allen Underwood about the distributed streaming platform Kafka, and what exactly it is. Allen Underwood, is one third of the Coding Blocks podcast, he is a Software Architect and Microsoft MVP. He is a Father to three children, and a husband. Allen loves to build things, both software and in the "real world". Allen's passions go beyond programming and give him a love for...

In this episode I will be announcing the winner of the 100th Episode giveaway , and the topic I will be discussing is Making Time for stuff! There is always one thing I say to people when they tell me they don't have time to do something and that is "If you can't make the time, you don't want it bad enough!"  

In this episode we talk about Code Reviews with Dave Follett, or as you may know him Super Good Dave. Dave is a Husband, and father of two. He is software developer living in the Metro Detroit area with more than 18 years of professional experience. He is interested in continuous learning, tinkering, and exploring new technology. Dave is pretty activity away from technology where he spends his tim...

In this episode we complete our extended dive into AI with Ed Yau, this is part 3 of 3. This all started back on Episode 101 be sure to go back and start your journey there. Ed works as a Solution Architect at cloudThing, on behalf of a number of clients. Having spent over 15-years in software development building different styles of Enterprise IT systems, he is really excited about the potential...

In this episode we continue our extended dive into AI with Ed Yau, this is part 2 of 3. This all started back on Episode 101 be sure to go back and start your journey there. Ed works as a Solution Architect at cloudThing, on behalf of a number of clients. Having spent over 15-years in software development building different styles of Enterprise IT systems, he is really excited about the potential...

In this episode we start our extended dive into AI with Ed Yau, this is part 1 of 3. Ed works as a Solution Architect at cloudThing, on behalf of a number of clients. Having spent over 15-years in software development building different styles of Enterprise IT systems, he is really excited about the potential for Machine Learning, Cognitive & Bot technologies which look to deliver more intelligent...

In this episode the tables are turned and the host is under spot light and talks about technology and podcasting. We talk about why the podcast came around, what tech has been the most interesting, where James thinks tech is going and much more!   SWAG GIVE AWAY: https://cynicaldeveloper.com/swag100   Contacting James Studdart Website: https://JamesStuddart.co.uk/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jame...

In this episode we talk to Brandon Lyons about Vue.js, another front end technology for Javascript. Where will it end!? do we really need another framework? anyway... Brandon is a Brandon fullstack web developer, with a passion on the frontend development, specifically Vue.js. He currently working at Mcity, an automated vehicle proving grounds located at the University of Michigan. Brandon first g...

In this episode I want to challenge what you think practice is, what you were told as a child that it was, I want to give you something that will make a whole lot of sense and change your practicing for the better.

In this episode we talk about Rookout, with Or Weis, a new way to track to bugs in your online applications. Or started with computers at the age of 5, and went on to be a developer, officer, and researcher at the IDF Intelligence's elite Unit 8200. After his military service he was product architect at Intigua, founder and CTO of Reactful, consultant for the Ministry of Defense, and a VP of R&D a...

In this episode I wanted to talk about getting involved and getting yourself out there.

In this episode we talk about The Bug Squasher, a great new product for making your product better, with Kirk Deis Kirk has been featured on Forbes, radio shows and podcasts in the US. He is the CEO and Founder of two companies - Treehouse 51 a digital agency in Newport Beach, California and The Bug Squasher a universal web app to that helps you diagnosis site issues, the system we're here to talk...

In this episode I wanted to talk about a topic which I think a lot of developers suffer with at some point in their career, especialy those who are always rivng to better than they were yesterday, and that is losing your confidence as a developer. I personally beleive it is tightly linked with Imposter syndrome and can be triggered in many ways, it can have an affect on your personal and your prof...

In this episode we talk with Matt Ellis about the cross platform IDE Rider from JetBrains. Matt is a developer slash developer advocate at JetBrains, he has spent over 20 years shipping software in various industries and currently works with IDEs and development tools, having fun with abstract syntax trees and source code analysis. He has worked on several open source projects, with a heavy leanin...

In this episode we talk about where the podcast has come from, where its going and your chance to win some free stuff!   " />

In this episode we talk to Richard Campbell about The Humanitarian Toolbox. https://cynicaldeveloper.com/podcast/91/ Richard wrote his first line of code in 1977 and still isn't over it. He's had a bunch of jobs in computing, built a few companies along the way and these days does a little consulting, makes the podcasts .NET Rocks and RunAs Radio, is one of the folks behind the Dev Intersection Co...

In this episode I want to talk about career prospects for developers, This has been something of a hot topic of late with a few of my developer friends and I want to address what appears to be a common theme between them all. I'm going to make a few points I have made before in the show, but I will also pick on some new areas.

In this episode I wanted to discuss having an opinion, what one is, and why you should keep it to yourself at times. As developers we are opinonated by nature, we are surrounded by them every day, even the technology we use is opinionated, but do you even know what an opinion is? most confuse opinion with fact. There are two kinds of opinions and we dicuss those today. https://cynicaldeveloper.com...

In this episode we speak to Stuart Mitchell about security in IoT. http://cynicaldeveloper.com/podcast/87/ Stuart Mitchell is the CEO of the IoT start-up mokanix, which is a Tata Communications business incubated in the company’s ‘Shape the Future’ programme. The inspiration for mokanix came from wondering why mobile operators didn’t allow access to some of their core control functionality via eas...

In this episode I wanted to talk to you about talking to non technical people. http://cynicaldeveloper.com/podcast/86/ ​For some reason us techies have some kind of mental ad blocker in our heads when it comes to talking to about technical stuff to non technical people. And I'll admit it can be hard to talk about such technical things in a way the average person can understand, I'm not going to sa...

In this episode we talk about Games Development, using Unity3d with Jason Weimann http://cynicaldeveloper.com/podcast/85/ Jason Weimann is a games developer and writer who loves to teach others how to build their own games. He has spent his career working on all types of games, including multiple MMO's, PC, & mobile games. Jason has been a big Virtual Reality enthusiast since the Oculus Rift Kicks...

In this episode we conclude our miniseries on The Time Bandits, who are the time bandits? They are the thieves in our day to, to day lives that are stealing your time, stopping you being productive and reaching your targets and goals. This miniseries started by on  episode 76 , with a look into the ring leader of the bandits  Too Much WIP . If you haven’t listened to that episode, then stop right...