No Fluff Just Stuff

Lyndsey Padget is a NoFluff speaker, Git Consultant and all-around Bad-ass. This week she joins us to share her expertise and journey with Git.  If you're like me, git is a tool we use but don't always understand. Lyndsey shines a light into the dark places, solves a few mysteries and shares some tips and tricks to grow our skillset.  Also mentioned - OhShitGit.com xkcd.com/1597 If you want to dive deeper into Git, don't miss Lyndsey's full-day, hands-on workshop "Master Git in a Day" an UberConfX

After a single interaction with VR, Eldon Alameda immediately recognized that this technology would be a seismic shift in our industry. He dove in head first and has been hands-on with the latest AR and VR technologies ever since. In this interview Eldon shares some exciting developments in this space and looks forward to the future and how human-computer interaction will evolve.

It seems like every time we solve one problem, it opens the door to a more complex problem. Tools like docker and Kubernetes have solved many problems, but at the cost of increased complexity and increased developer stress. To quote Mark Richards: "It used to take me four months to build, not it just takes four months to configure." Tour regular Jon Johnson weighs in about these problems, what's new in the community, and how open source tools are addressing that complexity, increasing developer productivity and decreasing developer stress. 

This week we're joined by Sean Hunter, author of Aurelia in Action. He gives us the history as well as the current state of the Aurelia framework.  Aurelia is a JavaScript client framework for web, mobile and desktop that leverages simple conventions to empower your creativity. It is simple, lightweight, yet powerful.  Follow Sean on Twitter      

Kotlin is an exciting new language for the JVM from the folks at Jetbrains. Kotlin has been making waves for a couple years now in the Android space but, as a general purpose language, it is finding it's way into many projects and developers seem to love it!  For those of us who haven't been hands-on yet, Ken gives us an overview of the language, it's features, and why it's worth getting excited about! Follow Ken on Twitter Check out Ken's other publications Sign up for his newsletter And, of course, here is the "Party Keynote" from KotlinConf 2017. 

For better or worse, the industry has coalesced around the big three frameworks: Angular, React and Vue. Each framework has it's own strengths and weaknesses, and Vue has positioned itself nicely as a balance between the ultra-opinionated Angular and the laissez-faire React.  In this episode we discuss all three, why we're excited about Vue and why it won't replace Angular or React. More importantly, we discuss best practices, and how to evaluate and select the framework that's right for you. There's so much wisdom in this episode. If you're a web developer, don't miss this one!   

This week I'm joined by Esther Derby and we discuss how tech teams get so toxic and dysfunctional and what we can do about it. Esther will be speaking at a few shows this year including the Northern Virginia Software Symposium and our flagship event, Uberconf.  Esther is the co-author of Behind Closed Doors - Secrets of great management along with Johanna Rothman, Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great, and she is the author of 7 Rules for Positive Change

This week I sit with Ben Hall and Jon Johnson to discuss an incredible tool for software engineers to learn, teach, and polish their craft - Katacoda. It is interactive, hands-on learning at it's finest with zero friction. Jon has been increasingly using Katacoda to share knowledge at work, as part of his talks, and to pick up new skills in his career as a software architect.  Ben Hall is the creator and gives us insight on the history, the applications, and the future of this tool. Don't miss this week's episode!

This week developer, architect, and open source contributor David Sietz and I sit and discuss how enterprises can adopt the open source model, the challenges, the benefits, and some of the culture changes necessary. 

This week I'm joined by Rod Cope of Rogue Wave Software. The topic is multi-grain services. How to evaluate the tradeoffs and to chose the architecture that's best for you, your team, and the business goals.