Ditching Wordpress vs Free-time Driven Development
The show begins discussing setting up a product roadmap for AspirEdu, but things devolve when Don mentions he is considering swapping Wordpress for the marketing website with a static site builder. Ra...
18 Jun 201955min
Microsoft Bounces Back: Monopolies, Ballmer Years, and Open Source
Don and Randy discuss the "New Microsoft" and how a change in leadership has led to a completely different experience with one of the largest technology firms in the World. We also take a road trip ba...
11 Jun 201945min
From Hands-on Dev to CTO: Jess Szmajda, CTO of Axios
We have an exceptional guest for our 50th episode in Jess Szmajda, CTO of Axios, and we cover a whole lotta ground: From building "horrible PHP sites", to constructing retail tech teams from scratch,...
4 Jun 201944min
Trying to find a product-market fit
Don and Randy discuss the latest installment of the Chasms app saga. Don heads out to Denver for a sales conference loaded with potential customers of the Chasms text-to-chat system, but finds no take...
28 Mai 201950min
Stages of the CTO Lifecycle
This week we review an old, but good, blog post by Andy Skipper named "Looking at the life of the CTO through the stages." We discuss our own experiences across these stages and the ones we haven't re...
21 Mai 201954min
Testing with Node and JavaScript (Finally!)
After years of testing with Ruby on Rails and rspec, Randy never had quite the flow with testing on the JavaScript and Node side of things... until now. We discuss the value of testing with Node, Expr...
14 Mai 201933min
Benefits of Continuous Integration
Over the past two decades of working in tech, the use of Continuous Integration (or CI) has become a mainstream approach to product development. Randy and Don discuss the systems they used before (or ...
7 Mai 201941min
Managed Hosting Rocks! WPEngine, Pantheon, and Heroku
Randy is working with a client that uses Pantheon for Drupal hosting and he loves the tools. After spending a good decade using cPanel on cheap hosts, the stability that WPEngine and Pantheon gives PH...
30 Apr 201927min
