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...
7 Nov 201828min
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...
30 Okt 201843min
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...
23 Okt 20181h 10min
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 Okt 201846min
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 Okt 201829min
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 Okt 201840min
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 Sep 201850min
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 Sep 201855min
