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 PC ads [...]

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 [...]

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 with people [...]

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 release [...]

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 up [...]

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 [...]

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 means is [...]

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 [...]