Musings of a Software Development Manager

It’s like Java Posse for Rails Developers only shorter, funnier, and tightly scripted.
The Rails Envy guys, Gregg and Jason, have put together a great podcast on current Rails news, packed it into 10 minute episodes and spiced it up with humor. You probably already know them from their parodies of the Mac [...]

Cote: Can you tell me what a business rule is Charles?
Charles: I have no ide…a… It’s an if statement.
Cote: Yeah!!

- Cote and Charles of the Drunk and Retired podcast.
- Episode 85 Web 2.0 As A Cheeseburger.

In a recent Agile Toolkit podcast interview with Alistair Cockburn he mentions a time where he was helping a team through a retrospective and he brought up a provocative idea:
12345678910111213<b>I was like, how do you like your daily standups.  There’s shuffling of feet and everyone’s looking down.  I asked how often do you do your [...]

One thing’s for sure (for 2007) I’m learning Haskell. Yeah, that’s right Haskell. Why? I don’t know.
– Charles Lowell of the Drunk and Retired Podcast, Episode 78.
I knew I chose wisely when choosing Haskell.

Software Engineering Radio is a fairly heady podcast on computing topics. I’ve left it on my list for a long time even if I end up skipping through the occasional episode that delves into too many details on Remoting or Model Driven Development. Lately though I’ve really enjoyed their turn towards more interviews [...]

Listening to an interview on Software Engineering Radio with Amazon’s CTO, Werner Vogels, a novel idea to chartering a project was explained. At Amazon instead of the traditional project charter or having a team just start with playing around with new technology, they require as a first step that the team writes a press [...]

One of the small podcast I’ve followed for at least a year now is Python 411. I haven’t actually coded in Python for years, but the host, Ron Stephens is just so excited about the topic that I still find I enjoy it. Passion is important.
My python story is simple, I picked it [...]

It’s not the most updated technical podcast around, not the most polished sounding, and follows pretty much just an interview format, but I really like when the occasional new Agile Toolkit episode pops up. The host Bob Payne follows a simple format:

Attend a conference.
Corner as many good speakers as you can.
Get them to sit [...]

I remember searching hard for good technical podcasts about a year ago. There were really just a few at that point like Drunk and Retired, ZDot, and the Polymorphic Podcast. Today there’s a wealth of them. Just following a blog link I noticed NetObjectives has a Lean Agile Straight Talk podcast.
All this [...]

The Java Posse podcast recently interviewed Bruce Eckel. About 32 minutes into the first of a two part interview Bruce says the following about the Java IO library:
“I don’t know if they (Sun) are just in denial or what. Opening a file is still a nightmare.”
It was good to hear one of the [...]