by Joey deVilla on March 17, 2010
Andy Hunt has been behind some of the biggest ideas in everyday software development in the past decade. From co-authoring the Agile Manifesto and The Pragmatic Programmer to starting The Pragmatic Bookshelf, one of the most influential developer book publishers, to helping bring about the rise of MVC web frameworks, chances are that he’s had some influence on your day-to-day work. In this one-hour webcast, we’ll talk with Andy about the ideas in his latest book, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning. We’ll discuss why your brain is where software development really happens, how you can refactor your thinking and as he puts it, “just the plain old weirdness that is people”.
You can listen to the recording of the webcast (recorded on March 4, 2010) in a couple of ways:
Direct Download:
Subscribe to the podcast: (so you don’t miss an episode)
As always, if you have questions, comments or suggestions on how to make Ignite Your Coding better, we want to hear from you! Feel free to email either of us – John Bristowe and Joey deVilla.
About Ignite Your Coding
Ignite Your Coding is a series of interviews where Microsoft Canada Developer Evangelists John Bristowe and Joey deVilla talk with some of the brightest lights in the professional programming world about their areas of interest, dealing with the constant change in the industry and their suggestions on how to be a better software developer.
Podcast Participants: Andy Hunt, John Bristowe and Joey deVilla.
Music: Win This Race by picadillyCircus Sound Design, courtesy of iStockphoto.
This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.
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Andy Hunt,
Ignite Your Coding,
podcasts,
webcasts
by Joey deVilla on March 16, 2010
This week’s Ignite Your Coding podcast features Jeremy Miller, Chief Software Architect at Dovetail Software, the coolest ISV in Austin. In our one-hour webcast, my co-host John Bristowe and I will discuss a wide range of topics, from newer OSS efforts in the .NET developer community and how they’re trying to reduce friction, AAA-style mocking instead of record/replay mocking, the effective use extension methods for cleaner/readable/easier unit testing, jQuery magic, and many other topics.
In case you were wondering what Ignite Your Coding is all about: It’s all about helping you, the software developer, find ways to stay on top of the technological, economic and social changes that affect you and your work every day. We got our hands on some of the biggest thinkers and doers in our field and asked them if they’d like to chat about the industry, how they got started, where they see the opportunities are, how they deal with change and how to be generally awesome. We got some big names from the Microsoft/.NET world, but we also went farther afield and got some people from beyond that world as well, because a different perspective is often helpful.
If You Want to Catch the Live Webcast on Thursday and/or Ask Jeremy Questions…
You’ll need:
If You Want to Listen to a Recording of the Webcast Later…
We’ll make it available in MP3 format soon. Watch this site for details!
This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.
Tagged as:
Ignite Your Coding,
webcasts
by Joey deVilla on March 11, 2010
If it’s Thursday, it must be time for me and my fellow Developer Evangelist John Bristowe to host another live Ignite Your Coding webcast!
This week’s guest is Glenn Block, a Program Manager for .NET FX at Microsoft. Glenn’s one of the go-to guys on Prism, Unity, MEF and ways of building maintainable and reconfigurable applications out of pieces that you can assemble and rearrange in general. We’ll talk with him about building composite applications, design patterns, the “alphabet soup” of SOLID, DI and IoC and whatever questions you ask him.
If You Want to Catch the Live Webcast on Thursday and/or Ask Glenn Questions…
You’ll need:
If You Want to Listen to a Recording of the Webcast Later…
We’ll make it available in MP3 format soon. Watch this site for details!
This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.
Tagged as:
composable applications,
Ignite Your Coding
by Joey deVilla on March 9, 2010
This Thursday, my fellow Developer Evangelist John Bristowe and I will host another live Ignite Your Coding webcast, where we’ll interview another high-profile software developer and pass along some of your questions.
This week’s guest is Glenn Block, a Program Manager for .NET FX at Microsoft. Glenn’s one of the go-to guys on Prism, Unity, MEF and ways of building maintainable and reconfigurable applications out of pieces that you can assemble and rearrange in general. We’ll talk with him about building composite applications, design patterns, the “alphabet soup” of SOLID, DI and IoC and whatever questions you ask him.
(We don’t have a photo of Glenn Block, but we do have the image to the right, which is the symbol for MEF – that’s Managed Extensibility Framework – which is one of Glenn’s projects. It’s a lucky coincidence that Glenn’s last name is also featured prominently in the image.)
If You Want to Catch the Live Webcast on Thursday and/or Ask Glenn Questions…
You’ll need:
If You Want to Listen to a Recording of the Webcast Later…
We’ll make it available in MP3 format soon. Watch this site for details!
What’s Ignite Your Coding All About, Anyway?
It’s all about helping you, the software developer, find ways to stay on top of the technological, economic and social changes that affect you and your work every day. We got our hands on some of the biggest thinkers and doers in our field and asked them if they’d like to chat about the industry, how they got started, where they see the opportunities are, how they deal with change and how to be generally awesome. We got some big names from the Microsoft/.NET world, but we also went farther afield and got some people from beyond that world as well, because a different perspective is often helpful.
This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.
Tagged as:
Glenn Block,
Ignite Your Coding,
object-oriented design,
object-oriented programming
