This week Ben and I talk with Director of Mobility Evangelism at SAP, located in our nations capitol, about mobile database technologies and software engineering.
Show Notes
Sybase acquisition by SAP.
Mobile databases and small footprint databases.
SAP making a play on Oracle.
Do you still get to code?
Building mobile application development is just beginning for many enterprises.
What are the main challenges for dealing with enterprise and mobile?
How does the iPhone play with enterprise customers?
Microsoft tried multiple times to bring out bring out a tablet but can’t seem to get it working
The future of mobile operating systems on full PCs and Laptops.
Ben: The merge of mobile and desktop computing has been a great boon to UI design.
UI design takes as much time as designing your system, algorithms and data structures.
Developers vs DBAs.
There’s no more debugging in ‘prod’ on mobile devices.
The internet isn’t always on as much as we’d like it to be, and as such we need to store data locally for when there’s no connectivity.
Software as a profession, do we need accreditation like lawyers and doctors?
Many companies have tried this, A+, MCSE, IEEE and ACM certs, etc.
Ben: Ultimately it all comes down to hiring, you wouldn’t hire a surgeon because he said he could do it.
Managers need to read The Mythical Man Month (9 people can’t have a baby in 1 month)
The App store model will make us all compete on software quality
fun discussion of Uber and how it’s disrupting old business models
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#
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?
This week we talk with Microsoft’s Rachel Appel, a developer evangelist for web technologies. An area where Microsoft has arguably had some challenges attracting developers to their stack.
Show Notes
What is an evangelist? ASP Class vs WebForms vs ASP MVC Do Evangelists still get to code? Silk Project, a model application for learning how to do ASP MVC. Please make deployment better for ASP MVC Deploying with TFS vs Git Hosted TFS in the cloud Give Camp Startups and Microsoft technologies ASP MVC and REST APIs Issues with using OpenID Attracting web developers to the Microsoft Stack via cloud Get free Visual Studio Professional: Website Spark, BizSpark, DreamSpark Are software developers putting outselves out of work? Will software developers be replaced before house builders? Writing software is essentially like translating from english, and thus we’re getting very close to being able to talk with your computer and having it translate into C. With Google Translate/Voice Commands and Siri Why aren’t OSS devs just writing their own pay apps? Speaking of science fiction: Which augmentation are you going to get? Singularity Hilarious:Reverse Craigslist Troll How did you get into programming? (a: video games) Code Camp People: Y U NO START LATER IN DAY? Bacon Roses
