Oh look, there's another episode of 2DDU podcast...
Oh look, there's another episode of 2DDU podcast...
Tags: Version Control · Books · Mobile · Process · IntelliJ · CFML · Android · Rust
G'day, it's been a while.
Today's episode features our first 2DDU Technology Radar. Oi? What?
The guys at Thoughtworks have recently gained a lot of well-deserved fame for doing their Technology Radar. It's essentially a structured list of "stuff" to use, look at, evaluate or be careful with when it comes to technology. It contains everything from processes via platforms and tools up to specific technologies and languages.
Here's our personal view on technologies: the 2DDU Technology Radar. It's a long episode, nearly 1 hour and 50 minutes. Feel free to agree or disagree with our views in the comments, discussion is very appreciated.
If you want to look at the list of technologies we're talking about while listening to the episode you're very welcome to use our published Google Doc to do so. Have fun!
Tags: ColdFusion · Version Control · Virtual Machines · OSS · Mobile · Cloud · Testing · Process · Javascript · Agile · IntelliJ · Railo · CFML · Clojure · Ruby · JRuby · Groovy · NodeJS · Python
And again Mark and I ran a session with two guests - coincidentally both speakers at cf.Objective(ANZ) + Flex 2011: Sandy Mamoli and Phil Haeusler. Yet again Mark proved that he struggles to pronounce European last names with umlaut-replacements correctly (well, he's usually not even close) and yet again Mark found a new approach to introduce me weirdly at the beginning of the show.
We talked about Sandy's and Phil's sessions which basically deal with agile technical concepts (in Sandy's case) and geolocation/GIS (in Phil's case). Phil explained a few of the basic concepts of geolocation, we got into chats of him FB- and GIS-stalking his children when they're older (which Mark seemed be very interested in picking up to monitor his future offspring :) and general privacy discussions re use and abuse of such data.
Sandy points out that her talk is not going to be an agile introduction, but rather in introduction is some technical practices that people regularly use within agile workflows. Most of them are actually best practices for any development process, such as unit testing, continuous integration and more.
When Mark brought up the idea that he and I should talk about our sessions as well we got into a discussion on A/B testing and if/how it can be seen as an agile technical practice. Not sure if we reached any agreement on that though. I introduced my JVM tuning topic and one of the comments I got from Sandy was: "wow. and you can talk about that for 45 minutes? VERY impressive". Thanks Sandy - I'm always trying to please :-)
Two jobs: CF Developer in Melbourne and Flex/Java developer with GIS knowledge in Brisbane.
Tags: Conferences · Mobile · Flex · Testing · Process · Community · Agile
Yet another speaker panel from cf.Objective(ANZ) + Flex! We're joined by the fantastic crew of Bjorn Schultheiss, Geoff Bowers (our first return guest) and Robin Hilliard who joined us to give us an introduction to the topics they are presenting at the conference.
This leads us to talk about designing testable Flex code, new feature in the Farcry framework and implementing domain specific languages using custom tags in ColdFusion.
From there, things digress into a history lesson on Spectra, and we also have a talk on how to find quality developers, irrespective of programming language.
Kai also made me link to this video. Apparently it's the game he was trying to explain in the podcast ;-)
More speaker sessions to come!
Tags: ColdFusion · Conferences · Farcry · Flex · Testing · Process
What an amazing podcast!
We were very privileged to have a panel of incredible people with us today to talk about Agile and Test Driven Development (TDD).
A huge thanks to Bill Shelton, Marc Esher, Michael Labriola and Sandy Mamoli for agreeing to join us, and participating in one of the most interesting, and thought provoking discussions on Agile process and Test Driven Development I've every been a party to.
We discuss testing from a variety of angles, why is it good, what are good ways to implement it, automation, how it factors into your process, as well as talking about the Agile process in general, how it can fit into certain organisations and business structures, and what problems its attempting to solve.
Brace yourselves for some good-to-honest learnin'!
Below are the resources we discussed in the podcast.
Tags: ColdFusion · Flex · Testing · Process