Damo's Febuary 2017 Podcast Highlights

I subscribe to many podcasts, you can see the list as it was in 2015 here: Developer podcasts v2. I'm keeping a podcast blog here of the episodes that I find interesting or useful in some way.

Devops

[.NET Rocks!] Ops and Operability with Dan North https://www.dotnetrocks.com/?show=1412

• Dig into the challenges of operating modern applications and how a constant demand for new features can be destabilizing to software. 
• The conversation explores getting to the root of concerns in systems so that everyone understands what is hard and what is easy. 
• When people are misunderstood, fear and resistance almost always follow.

[RunAs Radio] The MongoDB Exploit with Niall Merrigan http://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/519

• Are your noSQL stores safe? While at NDC London, Richard chatted with Niall Merrigan about the latest wave of exploits targeting MongoDB, ElasticSearch and others. 
• As Niall explains, the challenge is that the default security models for many of these products leaves them vulnerable to outside attack. As these attacks have progressed, they have presented themselves as ransomware - data is removed and a bitcoin account offered up to restore the data. However, to date, even when the ransoms are paid, no data is restored. 
• Apparently there is no honour among thieves.

Programming and testing

[Coding Blocks] Clean Code – How to Write Amazing Unit Tests http://www.codingblocks.net/podcast/how-to-write-amazing-unit-tests/

• When and why should you write unit tests, and just how important are they?

[DevOps Interviews - Channel 9] Interview with Gopinath https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DevOps-Interviews/Interview-with-Gopinath-Chigakkagari

• In this interview, Senior DevOps Program Manager Donovan Brown interviews Principal PM Manager Gopinath Chigakkagari about Testing.

[Herding Code] Richard Campbell on Humanitarian Toolbox http://herdingcode.com/herding-code-220-richard-campbell-on-humanitarian-toolbox/

• Humanitarian Toolbox is a collection of open source projects, and they’re initially focused on the allReady project. 
• allReady started to help the Red Cross organize and coordinate smoke detector installation efforts to prevent home fire disasters. 
• Software can help through things like mapping, mobile apps, and Twilio based notifications. 
• Just the simple addition of reminder notifications before going out to install smoke detectors has raised their install rate from about 30% to about 80%.

[LDNUG - London .net user group] February meetup (12 factor apps) https://www.meetup.com/London-NET-User-Group/events/237160739

• The buzz is all around Cloud Native: continuous deployment and easy scaling of your server side code. You have heard about Docker and Microservices, but what are 12-factor apps?
• The Twelve-Factor App methodology (https://12factor.net/), was created by engineers with experience of delivering apps on Heroku, and is a "recipe for success" when authoring code for cloud native scenarios. 
• In this presentation we will look at what a Twelve-Factor App is, and demonstrate how to meet the requirements when creating .NET applications. We will show examples using ASP.NET Core, Brighter and Darker of authoring code to meet these requirements, and show its deployment to containers.
• Presentation is now online - https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/9275-londondot-net-february-meetup

[The Changelog] 99 Practical Bottles of OOP with Sandi Metz https://changelog.com/podcast/225

• Sandi Metz joined the show to talk about her beginnings on a mainframe, her 30+ years of programming experience, the ins and outs of OOP, her book Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (aka POODR), as well as her latest book 99 Bottles of OOP which she co-authored with Katrina Owen

Architecture

[.NET Rocks!] Conway`s Law with Mark Seemann http://www.dotnetrocks.com/?show=1418

• What is Conway's Law and how does it apply to your organization? 
• How organization structure affects the structure of software. 
• That is the essence of Conway's Law, going all the way back to the 1960s, where he talked about how committees designing software end up making software that reflects the structure of the committees themselves. This leads to a broad conversation about how virtually every company today is actually a software company, and that software represents a vital asset to most businesses, but they may not recognize it yet. 
• Getting your organization into shape to build great software can be the difference between success and bankruptcy!

Agile, Teams and Business analysis

[Agile For Humans] #NoEstimates with Vasco Duarte http://ryanripley.com/noestimates-with-vasco-duarte/

• One of the staring points of #NoEstimates is: “We as an industry are not able to estimate well.”
• With that starting point, alternatives are necessary. #NoEstimates seeks to explore those alternatives.

[Agile in 3 Minutes] Mob programming https://agilein3minut.es/32/

[Agile Weekly] Episode #107 – Is Agile Faster? http://integrumtech.com/2013/04/episode-107-is-agile-faster/

• Is agile faster?
• Why is agile faster?

[Agile for humans] 5 Base Patterns to Guide Agile Teams http://ryanripley.com/5-base-patterns-to-guide-agile-teams/

• Measure economic progress
• Experiment
• Limit work in progress
• Embrace collective responsibility
• Solve systemic problems
• Top down vs. bottom up agile transformations
• Some discussions about no estimates and the limitations of such a technique

Other interests and stuff

[Developer Tea] The Einstellung Effect https://spec.fm/podcasts/developer-tea/59037

• Einstellung is the development of a mechanized state of mind. Often called a problem solving set, Einstellung refers to a person's predisposition to solve a given problem in a specific manner even though better or more appropriate methods of solving the problem exist. The Einstellung effect is the negative effect of previous experience when solving new problems.
• Thus older and more experienced developers are more prone to the Einstellung effect than younger less experienced ones.

[The Ruby Rogues] The Future of Work in Web Development https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/rr-296-the-future-of-work-in-web-development-with-erik-dietrich

• Erik is currently working on a book which he titled “Developer Hegemony”. It centres around the idea of software developers and the future of software development.
• In its broadest sense, software developers would leave big enterprise organizations and shift to more freelance work. They would unite and create firms that focus on application development. These firms would then be in contract with large enterprises.

[On Books] Kevin Kelly on The Inevitable, 60s Counterculture, and How to Read Better http://castig.org/kevin-kelly-on-the-inevitable-60s-counterculture-and-how-to-read-better/

• The Counterculture movement of the 60s
• Travelling as an act of rebellion
• Kevin’s latest book The Inevitable in which he writes that, “Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion.” He’ll share some of those predictions with us.
• Lessons on how to read better

[On Books] Book Summary: The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly http://castig.org/the-inevitable-by-kevin-kelly/

• The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, by Kevin Kelly.
• The Inevitable is driven by the idea that the technological trends of the next 30 years can be predicted. Over 336 pages the book breaks down the Top 12 technological forces at work such as: “Becoming, Cognifying, Flowing, Screening, Accessing, Sharing, Filtering, Remixing, Interacting, Tracking, Questioning, and Beginning.”

[LSE] Politics: between the extremes http://www.lse.ac.uk/website-archive/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=3576

• A cautionary tale. An exposé. A defence of the centre-ground. An appeal to reason. A call to arms. An honest account from the top and bottom of British politics. 
• Come along to this public conversation with former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg who will be speaking about his new book, Politics: Between the Extremes.

[LSE] Politics after Brexit and Trump http://www.lse.ac.uk/website-archive/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=3718

• A year of unpredictable political upheavals in the industrialised world promises an interesting period ahead. What are the lessons from Brexit and the Trump election for our democracy?
• Richard H. Pildes is the Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law at the New York University Law School. He is one of the nation's leading scholars of constitutional law and a specialist in legal issues affecting democracy.
• Mervyn King was Governor of the Bank of England from 2003 to 2013, and is currently School Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Lord King was made a life peer in 2013, and appointed by the Queen a Knight of the Garter in 2014.