Coder Radio
The Mad Botter
A weekly talk show taking a pragmatic look at the art and business of Software Development and the world of technology.
Episodes
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Jan 27, 2015 • 47min
Deploy Like an Animal | CR 138
It’s a tip show edition of Coder Radio. Mike shares a great way to get some Heroku features without the bill.
Plus the annoying honeymoon period, your feedback & more!
Jan 19, 2015 • 50min
Monumental Android Failure | CR 137
Well known developers have recently gone public with how much they make & where they make it from. Mike & Chris chew on the numbers & discuss the raw reality.
Plus great feedback on Chris’ first development language & more!
Jan 13, 2015 • 57min
Ruby is not Perl | CR 136
Chris shares what’s prevented him from getting started with development & shares the three languages that are at the top of his list to try.
Plus we get passionate after some feedback to the Mac Exodus topic & more!
Jan 6, 2015 • 54min
Macs Exodus | CR 135
Is the quality of Apple’s desktop and mobile software causing a slow bleeding of developers? Chris & Mike debate what developers will do over 2015.
Plus we read some great follow up, feature a community project & more!
Dec 29, 2014 • 51min
Fair And Balanced | CR 134
Mike is fired up by a topic that has been on fire over all of 2014.
Is it finally time to let the other 95% of great programmers in?
Dec 22, 2014 • 1h 8min
Best Of Coder Radio 2014 | CR 133
We peer into the past of the show to pull out the amazing clips you guys suggested to us and fondly remember how funny it is to listen to Chris get trolled. Sit back, relax & enjoy the fun in this look back at best of Coder Radio!
Dec 16, 2014 • 58min
Git your Pizza | CR 132
It’s the birth of another open source project live on this week’s Coder Radio. Plus it’s an open mic edition & we discuss a wide range of topics from Microsoft’s big mobile strategy that nobody is noticing, the best Linux development environment, setting expectations, your feedback & more!
Dec 8, 2014 • 41min
Dock Your Rocket | CR 131
Has Docker’s wild success caused it grow too big & too corporate? In light of the CoreOS project’s announcement of Rocket we’ll reflect on the big problem both projects needs to solve.
Plus our plans to involve community around building an API for Jupiter Broadcasting, your feedback & more!
Dec 2, 2014 • 1h 5min
Get Back to the '50s | CR 130
That tech worker “shortage” Facebook and Microsoft keep telling you about is bogus. We’ll go over the study and reports that back that claim up. Then we dig into the rather understandable reasons why developers wages are being pushed down & more!
Nov 25, 2014 • 1h 2min
Google's Objective C | CR 129
It’s a special roundtable edition of Coder Radio. Our panel discussed the advantages of Go development over PHP, creating a flat-file website with no database, and the real secret to finishing that last 10%.
Then we discuss the black magic Google is using to share 70% of their new Inbox’s apps code across the Web, Android, and iOS. And if Google’s new approach is a quiet condemnation of HTML5 applications.
