Growing Up and Losing the Fun Parts of App Development
CTO Think Podcast3 Maalis 2020

Growing Up and Losing the Fun Parts of App Development

Don asked Randy about what he's working on, lately, and Randy exclaimed, "nothing fun," which actually turns out not to be true. Randy details the additional mix of people, communication, and risk management around mature application development and it becomes the setting for a larger-picture discussion on how things change with app dev as you age.

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Brainstorming the Tech, Managed meetup

Brainstorming the Tech, Managed meetup

As we move into 2019, Randy and Don discuss a new meetup concept they aim to create called Tech, Managed. With goals to build upon the growth of the CTO Think and This Old App audience, the Tech, Mana...

31 Joulu 20181h 8min

Follow-up with Mark on Flutter, TotallyStrong.me, and Family

Follow-up with Mark on Flutter, TotallyStrong.me, and Family

About a year has passed since we last spoke to Mark Thompson about his journey through a solo developer application build for TotallyStrong.me using the new framework, Flutter. This week we talk about...

27 Joulu 20181h 11min

Kubernetes Exploits, Bernie Madoff, and Minimal Skepticism

Kubernetes Exploits, Bernie Madoff, and Minimal Skepticism

Don and Randy discuss a recent exploit that came to light in the Kubernetes container framework that seemed to fade off as a widespread concern. This leads to a discussion about how much diligence is ...

18 Joulu 201848min

Viability of a Watch App Concept

Viability of a Watch App Concept

Don has an idea for a building a watch app to service American football referees and discusses with Randy whether the concept is viable for a build. Randy provides the customary ref jokes and insults ...

11 Joulu 201852min

Review of the State of JS Survey

Review of the State of JS Survey

How is Angular doing vs React and Vue? What are the most used and growing back-end JavaScript frameworks. Which strongly-typed flavor of JavaScript is winning hearts? This week, Don and Randy discuss ...

4 Joulu 20181h 5min

Crossover Episode - The World vs React (Nuff Said)

Crossover Episode - The World vs React (Nuff Said)

The previous two episodes of our sister podcast, This Old App, discussed the rapid development of React and its possible side effects on the development community. For this CTO Think episode, we run o...

20 Marras 201830min

React-ions and Corrections to Last Week

React-ions and Corrections to Last Week

Last week's episode about the speed of React development either struck a nerve, had enough keywords for a Google SEO explosion, or involved a prominent member of the React dev team (cough, Mr. Abramov...

20 Marras 201828min

Is React the Popular Kid in School?

Is React the Popular Kid in School?

During Randy's interviewing stint, he spoke to a good number of firms that had needs for different stacks, but one particular framework stood out: React. Startups, small firms, and enterprise firms, ...

13 Marras 20181h 2min