Extroverted Developer #11 - We're not dead yet

This week, Ben and I discuss why we haven’t had shows recently. A new venture called MapItPrices, and the news that Xamarin Studios has ported Android to C#

Show Notes

• MapItPrices
• Where’s the cheap beer?
• NYC Mentorship Program Accepting applications NOW!
• Xamarin ported Android to C# and mono

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Extroverted Developer #10 - Toby Muresianu

This week Ben and I chat with former Microsoftie turned Standup Comic, Toby Muresianu about careers in Software.

Show Notes

• Toby the Comic
• My picker is broken
• Toby’s twitter feed

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Extroverted Developer #9

This week Ben and I chat during a CityMaps party about what it takes to be a computer programmer. How do you get into this field, and most importantly can anybody do it?

Show Notes

• Extra Creditz has an amazing wealth of discussion topics
• http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/so-you-want-to-be-a-developer-part-1
• http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/mailbag-4 (ideas are worthless)
• http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/commentary/why-you-should-learn-how-code

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Extroverted Developer #8

In this Episode Ben and I talk about why there wasn’t a podcast last week. (hint: we shipped a ton of new software)

• PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance
• Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It
• The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
• Ninja Blocks
• If This Then That
• Yahoo Pipes

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Extroverted Developer #7 - Sean Cribbs

This week Ben and I talk with Basho developer Sean Cribbs about NoSQL and how they write software.

Show Notes

• Riak
• Amazon’s Dynamo Paper
• Riak is really good for cloud storage
• LAMP pretty much scales horizontally vs Microsoft’s big iron approach
• Voxer is probably the biggest deployment of Riak
• How do you work effectively remotely?
• Chatrooms:Hipchat, Campfire and Hubot
• Agile Zen for ensuring you have a pull based workflow
• Differences in culture re: work hours between west and east coast
• Distributed version control workflow
• Sean’s Coder Wall
• Common pitfalls when moving from SVN to git
• GitHub: Code comments start to matter more when they’re public :)
• GitHub Flow
• How GitHub Uses GitHub to Build GitHub
• conflict between Open Source vs Proprietary features
• How do you do Continuous Integration with GitHub?

Pro Tips

• Sean: git submodules, or How to use github to API documentation
• Ben: Dropbox feature: Packrat and Events feed

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