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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Should We Open Source This Code?

Should We Open Source This Code?

Don and his company, AspirEDU, decided to open source a small bit of code for the first time for the Django community. We discuss the various considerations--across proprietary, support, and licensing...

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Chipping Away at Project Blockers

Chipping Away at Project Blockers

Don continues to work on his Azure-backed PDF processing application and describes his process to fix a number of blockers. After making progress, Randy asks him about widget pipeline options, like IF...

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Adventures in Interviewing

Adventures in Interviewing

Randy is moving to Kansas City and exploring new job opportunities both local and remote, which has him in the thick of a variety of interviewing processes. Don and Randy discuss the good and bad abou...

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Debugging Azure with Ego Driven Development

Debugging Azure with Ego Driven Development

In another effort to prevent Don and Randy from working on the same stack, Don wanders off into Microsoft land to build a web app on Azure, and promptly runs into trouble. Through a little troubleshoo...

16 Loka 201846min

Thinking About Smart Homes

Thinking About Smart Homes

After a two-week break, we return to discuss how Randy's buying a house and is thinking about all the new tech and gadgets he can add to it. We discuss home automation, the unnecessary features added ...

9 Loka 201829min

Build vs Buy and Disrupting Processes

Build vs Buy and Disrupting Processes

We're back after a couple-week break! Don and Randy discuss the ever-debated strategy of building versus buying your software solutions. But they up the ante by discussing how existing workflows and p...

9 Loka 201840min

To Test or Not to Test?

To Test or Not to Test?

Do you practice test-driven development or feel left out of the "cool-kids" club of folks that swear testing is a necessity to develop quality code? We discuss our history with testing, how we haven't...

18 Syys 201850min

Handling Critical Feature Updates

Handling Critical Feature Updates

Don's firm recently underwent its first major platform upgrade and we discuss the various ways they prepared, tested, and worked through the changes, all the way up to the dreaded "point of no return....

11 Syys 201855min