Damo's Podcast Highlights 2016 #44

I subscribe to many podcasts, you can see the list as it was in 2015 here: Developer podcasts v2 but I thought I would start to keep a weekly log of the episodes that I found interesting or useful in some way.

[Software Engineering Daily] ChatOps with Jason Hand https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2016/11/02/chatops-with-jason-hand/

• Chat bots are your newest co-worker. Slack, HipChat, and other chat clients allow developers and other team members to communicate more dynamically than the limits of email. 
• Companies have started to add bots to their chat rooms. These bots can give you technical information, restart a server, or notify you that a build has finished.

[Full Stack Radio] Building the Right Thing with BDD http://www.fullstackradio.com/51

• What exactly is BDD?
• Is BDD a technical or non-technical practice?
• How do you get started with BDD?
• How do you keep the number of system tests low to keep your test suite fast?
• What's your strategy for dealing with external services in acceptance tests?
• What are the advantages of using Cucumber even as a solo developer working on a side project?

[Cucumber Podcast] Mob Programming https://cucumber.io/blog/2016/04/19/mob-programming

• “All the brilliant people working on the same thing, at the same time, in the same space, and on the same computer.” That’s how Woody Zuill - who coined the term Mob Programming - describes it. He is our esteemed guest on the podcast, and we spend some time digging into his own experiences mobbing.
• This is a fun episode for folks looking for novel ways to improve the certainty of their software.

[Azure Friday - Channel 9] What's new in Azure DocumentDB? https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Azure-Friday/AzureFridayNewinDocumentDB

• Get up to speed with what documentDb is and what is new

[Microsoft Cloud Show] DocumentDB's recent Improvement http://www.microsoftcloudshow.com/podcast/Episodes/131-microsoft-s-andrew-liu-on-documentdb-s-improvements-on-pricing-scale-and-mongodb-support

• New support for MongoDB, 
• Performance and scale, specifically some new capabilities that the DocumentDB team has added like partitioned collections and planet scale with global databases. 
• Pricing changes announced in April 2016 
• Support for automatically expiring data with TTL settings.

[JavaScript Air] (Rerun) The past, present, and future or javascript https://javascriptair.com/episodes/2016-10-05/

• A rerun of the very first show: Kicking off JavaScript Air with the first guest Brendan Eich (original creator of JavaScript) to talk about the past, present, and future of JavaScript.

[JavaScript Air] JavaScript and the Web Platform with Brendan Eich https://javascriptair.com/episodes/2016-11-02/

• The history of ad networks and how add tracking works
• Why this is not a good thing for anyone
• What can we all do to stop the madness
• Use the brave browser

[Simple Programmer Podcast] People Don't Take Action http://simpleprogrammer.libsyn.com/265-people-dont-take-action-they-only-hear-good-ideas-simple-programmer-podcast

• Hear good ideas, gotta take action

[AWS Podcast] AWS Quickstarts https://soundcloud.com/amazon-web-services-306355661/aws-podcast-episode-155

[TEDTalks] Your smartphone is a civil rights issue https://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_soghoian_your_smartphone_is_a_civil_rights_issue

• The smartphone you use reflects more than just personal taste ... it could determine how closely you can be tracked, too. 
• Privacy expert and TED Fellow Christopher Soghoian details a glaring difference between the encryption used on Apple and Android devices and urges us to pay attention to a growing digital security divide. 
• "If the only people who can protect themselves from the gaze of the government are the rich and powerful, that's a problem," he says. "It's not just a cybersecurity problem — it's a civil rights problem."