Clean Coders Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Acceptance Testing is simple in theory and practice, but can be difficult to implement. Paul Stringer joins Charles today to discuss the Acceptance Testing technique as a foundational element of the development process. They also discuss how to balance the amount of time required for Acceptance Testing vs. the business logic cost warranted to forego it.
Links * Clean Coders: Acceptance Test Driven Development with Paul Stringer
Connect with Paul Stringer:
- Book recommendation- “ATDD by Example” by Markus Gartner []
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Mani has summarized hundreds of business books that outline how to build, grow, and operate a business and he shares his expertise with Chuck and the listeners in this special episode.
Chuck and Mani discuss what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. They talk about their businesses on a regular basis and Chuck's been getting a lot of requests for entrepreneurship help.
He and Mani talk about the 3 primary things that add momentum to your business and help you keep the momentum up when setbacks come your way.
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Eric Crichlow returns to the Clean Coders podcast to discuss his work on a logging system for the application he works on for his day job. He discusses the systems and the tradeoffs he made in making it work.
Panel * Charles Max Wood
Guest * Eric Crichlow
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Sandro Mancuso explains to Chuck how they've evolved the process of reviewing performance of employees at Codurance and how that ties into salary raises and compensation packages.
They discuss how they used to do things and what worked and what didn't and then move into the process they use now at Codurance. Sandro explains what information they gather, how they evaluate it, who looks at it, what they measure, and how it ties into salary.
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- Charles Max Wood
Guest
- Sandro Mancuso
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Chuck dives into the 3 essentials for getting the next successful outcome you want in your career. Whether that's something simple like a raise or something more complex like going freelance, you can achieve it by working on 3 main areas.
First, building skills. The most obvious type of skills you'll need is technical skills. However, don't neglect your people skills and your organizational skills as well since you're often paid for how you work with people and enhance their work and how you put your work together in the most efficient ways.
Second, building relationships. Often other people will be able to help you find the opportunities or will be the ones to make the decisions that impact your ability to get the outcome you want. Having good relationships is key to having good outcomes.
Third, building recognition. Being known for being valuable in important ways allows you to leverage the skills you have to build better relationships and create opportunities to get what you need to get the outcomes you want by giving people what they want. A podcast is a great way to do all three. Chuck explains exactly how that works in this podcast and goes deeper as part of the Dev Influencers Accelerator.
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- Charles Max Wood
Chuck dives into the 3 essentials for getting the next successful outcome you want in your career. Whether that's something simple like a raise or something more complex like going freelance, you can achieve it by working on 3 main areas.
First, building skills. The most obvious type of skills you'll need is technical skills. However, don't neglect your people skills and your organizational skills as well since you're often paid for how you work with people and enhance their work and how you put your work together in the most efficient ways.
Second, building relationships. Often other people will be able to help you find the opportunities or will be the ones to make the decisions that impact your ability to get the outcome you want. Having good relationships is key to having good outcomes.
Third, building recognition. Being known for being valuable in important ways allows you to leverage the skills you have to build better relationships and create opportunities to get what you need to get the outcomes you want by giving people what they want. A podcast is a great way to do all three. Chuck explains exactly how that works in this podcast and goes deeper as part of the Dev Influencers Accelerator.
Panel * Charles Max Wood
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Chuck explains what he taught Nathan last week when we asked how to get hired at a FANG (Facebook Apple/Amazon Netflix Google) company. Essentially, it boils down to how to build the skills and knowledge needed to pass the interview. How to build the relationships to get into the door and have the interviewer want you to succeed. And how to build the reputation that has the company wanting you regardless of the outcome.
This approach also works for speaking at conferences, selling courses, and other outcomes as well as it's the core of building a successful career as an influencer.
Panel
- Charles Max Wood
Chuck explains what he taught Nathan last week when we asked how to get hired at a FANG (Facebook Apple/Amazon Netflix Google) company. Essentially, it boils down to how to build the skills and knowledge needed to pass the interview. How to build the relationships to get into the door and have the interviewer want you to succeed. And how to build the reputation that has the company wanting you regardless of the outcome.
This approach also works for speaking at conferences, selling courses, and other outcomes as well as it's the core of building a successful career as an influencer.
Panel
- Charles Max Wood
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Chuck was on a strategic call with one of his potential coaching clients talking about cryptocurrencies and realized that this is one of the major reasons that people want to become influencers. Or, rather, that many people aspire to make a difference and/or make money and the best way to do that is to become the person people go to for what you do.
So, how do you become the first person people think of when they think of that thing you know how to do? Let Chuck tell you.
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- Charles Max Wood
Chuck was on a strategic call with one of his potential coaching clients talking about cryptocurrencies and realized that this is one of the major reasons that people want to become influencers. Or, rather, that many people aspire to make a difference and/or make money and the best way to do that is to become the person people go to for what you do.
So, how do you become the first person people think of when they think of that thing you know how to do? Let Chuck tell you.
Panel
- Charles Max Wood
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Charles talks about the things that get developers stuck when they're trying to start their podcast or other influencer channel. He explains how to get around having those things hamper your journey.
Panel
- Charles Max Wood
Eric returns to the Clean Coders podcast to discuss a talk he gave to a bunch of developers at Spotify. He talks about the differences between the mobile development paradigm and the web and other paradigms to set the stage for the different measures and practices involved in evaluating mobile development code. He also gives some practices mobile teams can put into place to increase and insure their code quality.
Panel
- Charles Max Wood
Guest
- Eric Crichlow
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Charles Max Wood talks about how to build, grow, and benefit from positive relationships within programming. He talks about how he's built genuine positive relationships with hundreds of programmers and how he and others have grown from those relationships. He also explains that you get out of relationships what you put into them. Finally, he goes into how to begin to build relationships by building a system of influence you can use on behalf of the people you want relationships with.
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- Charles Max Wood
Charles Max Wood talks about how to build, grow, and benefit from positive relationships within programming. He talks about how he's built genuine positive relationships with hundreds of programmers and how he and others have grown from those relationships. He also explains that you get out of relationships what you put into them. Finally, he goes into how to begin to build relationships by building a system of influence you can use on behalf of the people you want relationships with.
Panel
- Charles Max Wood
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Charles Max Wood discusses several opportunities that came his way early in his podcasting career and other opportunities that have come to other people after only a couple of podcast episodes. He explains why that happens and how you can use this to create more influence as a developer.
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- Charles Max Wood
Charles Max Wood discusses several opportunities that came his way early in his podcasting career and other opportunities that have come to other people after only a couple of podcast episodes. He explains why that happens and how you can use this to create more influence as a developer.
Panel
- Charles Max Wood
Charles Max Wood started podcasting because it sounded fun and because he wanted to talk about technology. He learned pretty quickly that it got him access to people who understood the things he wanted to learn. The reasons changed over the years, as Charles explains before he talks about the big payoff he gets now from doing the podcasts.
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- Charles Max Wood
Charles Max Wood started podcasting because it sounded fun and because he wanted to talk about technology. He learned pretty quickly that it got him access to people who understood the things he wanted to learn. The reasons changed over the years, as Charles explains before he talks about the big payoff he gets now from doing the podcasts.
Panel
- Charles Max Wood
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Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working for the company that made the game, even if it wasn't a job working as a game developer and how that led to a career working on one of the most popular online games of the time.
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- Charles Max Wood
Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working for the company that made the game, even if it wasn't a job working as a game developer and how that led to a career working on one of the most popular online games of the time.
Panel
- Charles Max Wood
Guest
- Jason Weimann
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Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck's experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer and podcaster.
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- Charles Max Wood
Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck's experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer and podcaster.
Panel
- Charles Max Wood
In the previous episode, Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin mentioned that there are many books that current programmers don't read anymore. Chuck pressed him and got him to come back and tell us which books those are and why people should be paying attention to them.
Panel * Charles Max Wood
Guest * Robert Cecil Martin
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Links * The Art of Computer Programming - Volume 1 - Fundamental Algorithms by Donald Knuth * The Art of Computer Programming - Volume 2 - Seminumerical Algorithms by Donald Knuth * Art of Computer Programming, The: Volume 3: Sorting and Searching by Donald Knuth * Structured Programming by Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, C. A. R. Hoare and Ole-Johan Dahl * The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold * Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges * Structured Analysis and System Specification by Tom DeMarco * Practical Guide to Structured Systems Design by Meilir Page-Jones * Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software * Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler * Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models by Martin Fowler * Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Evans Eric * The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman * Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs * Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices by Robert Martin
Uncle Bob is back to discuss his upcoming book Clean Craftsmanship. He and Chuck discuss the bases for software craftsmanship including the disciplines, standards, and ethics that make up Software Craftsmanship. Uncle Bob once again brings up his Extreme Programming roots and dives into the reasons why the disciplines outlined in it are so important.
Then Chuck and Bob discuss the standards that should exist around programming and the ethics of good programming outlined by the Programmer's Oath.
Panel
- Charles Max Wood
Guest
- Robert Cecil Martin
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Links
- Devchat.tv | CC 010: The Programmer’s Oath with Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin
Daniel and Chuck jump into the ideas around code complexity and the idea that the number of symbols someone has to understand increases the amount that someone has to keep in their head to understand code.
Daniel explains the idea of Code Cognitive Load on his blog For The Love Of All That's Holy, Use CCL To Control Complexity In Your Systems. He breaks down not only the ways that the code and its underlying complexity add to what a programmer has to hold in their head to understand the risk that exists in their code as they write or maintain it, but also the interpersonal aspects of designing and communicating about code that exist among teams of developers.
Panel
- Charles Max Wood
Guest
- Daniel Markham
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Charles Max Wood explains how he landed his first 4 freelance clients that took him through a few years of freelancing with only 3 years of experience and a few hundred podcast listeners. Funnily enough, they actually came to him, not the other way around.
He explains how he made himself attractive to them and then turned it into a mutually profitable relationship once he had their attention.
Panel
- Charles Max Wood
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This is a repeat episode of Clean Coders. Here's the original link https://devchat.tv/clean-coders/cc-010-the-programmers-oath-with-robert-uncle-bob-martin/
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Eric Crichlow is the author of the iOS Development 101 on Clean Coders. Chuck and Eric discuss the course and the process of building a course for Clean Coders. They also discuss Eric's journey from working at GM to working at a startup.
Panel
- Charles Max Wood
Guest
- Eric Crichlow
Sponsors
- Dev Heroes Accelerator
John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.
John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.
This is a repeat episode of Ruby Rogues 485
The Rogues dive into who are top 5% developers, what they're doing and how to recognize them. They start out discussing how mid-level developers can move up and how developers can grow in more ways that technical skills.
Panel * Charles Wood * Dave Kimura * John Epperson
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Links * Devchat.tv | Dev Rev
Picks * Charles- The 360 Leader: Developing your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization by John C. Maxwell * Charles- The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell * Charles- Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen by Donald Miller * Dave- Ruby on Rails Link * Dave- Track Lights * John- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss * John- How to write an effective developer resume: Advice from a hiring manager * John- Yoichi Single Malt Whisky
Charles Max Wood takes a solo flight into how to make an impact on the development community and build the career you want at the same time. Chuck starts out summarizing his journey over the last year or so and then dives into his vision of how people can grow into becoming an influencer and using that to create opportunities in your life and career.
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- Charles Wood
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Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to walk him through the 6 pillars of success that lead to meeting your goals.
Mani has read thousands of books on success, setting and achieving goals, and personal growth and has distilled these 6 principles from the books and then figured out how to put them into practice.
He and Chuck walk through the principles and strategies that create success and allow you to set goals that will bring you the things you want during the next year or so.
Listen to this episode to learn how to crush your biggest goals in 2021.
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Sandro Mancuso has been working on building self-managing teams within his company. The discussion goes into what parts of the work should be managed by the team and what parts should be managed for the team. He explains the tradeoffs of independence and control at different levels. He also explains several of the things that have worked as they've implemented these principles.
There are several powerful principles at play when you focus on providing self-direction to the people doing the work.
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- Sandro Mancuso
- Charles Max Wood
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Chris Powers is the Director of Engineering at Thinkful. He's been spending a bit of time lately thinking about the costs of decisions as software projects evolve and grow. In other words as an application evolves from a small, niche application to a widely used, multi-tenant application. Or, as the team building it changes from a handful of developers in the same room to multiple teams working remotely on the same codebase.
As those changes occur, how do different testing practices, architectural decisions, and clean coding practices of the past prepare the application for or cause headaches during the development of the present?
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Mani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time.
He has read hundreds of books that have taught him the secrets to getting more done by getting into this state.
He starts by telling us how he was passed over for a promotion at Qualcomm in favor of someone younger and less experienced and how that inspired him to figure out what the other guy was doing differently. He learned that he needed to get more done with the time he was spending on his projects.
The trick? Deep Work!
Deep Work is the ability to spend uninterrupted, focused time on a task to bend your entire mind toward the goal.
Other developers call it "Flow" or "the Zone."
Mani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time.
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Test Driven Development is the practice of writing your tests to explore how your code should be structured and to verify its functionality. Bob and Chuck explore the various thoughts around how to write tests, what to test, and how testing will save you time and effort in the long run. Then, they dive into how writing tests first through Test Driven Development (TDD).
This episode walks you through starting with Test Driven Development (TDD) and how Test Driven Development can help improve your development practices.
Check Out Bob's Advanced TDD Course on Clean Coders
Human language is imprecise. Computer logic requires precision that is not provided by human language. What this means is that as humans work to program computers, they need to work to bring the way they describe the problems and solutions we’re responsible for in line with the way we think about building programs and organizing them into patterns we can describe.
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Host * Charles Max Wood
Guest * Daniel B Markham
Links * https://leanpub.com/info-ops2
Picks Charles Max Wood:
- https://www.brandonsanderson.com/the-stormlight-archive-series/
Daniel B Markham:
- The Exorcist (1973)
- The Omen (1976)
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In this episode of Clean Coders, Chris Powers, author of Clean Code in the Browser for Clean Coders and VP of engineering for Thinkful, joins Chuck. They discuss how the solid principles of clean coding play out in an object-oriented language like JavaScript and the shift in the identity of a frontend developer in the past 15 years.
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Host * Charles Max Wood
Guest * Chris Powers
Links * Clean Code in the Browser * Thinkful * TypeScript * Kent Beck’s 4 Principles of Simple Design * The Technical Debt Trap by Doc Norton * chrisjpowers.com
- Check out Chris’ “Clean Code In The Browser” video course
In this episode of Clean Coders, guest Micah Martin and Chuck discuss how he’s working to refactor the codebase into “clean code” and how he’s worked with apprentices in the past to teach them to write and refactor to clean code.
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Host * Charles Max Wood
Guest * Micah Martin
Links * Datomic * Email Micah at micah@cleancoders.com, follow him on Twitter @slagyr * Micah’s Website
- Check out Micah Martin’s and Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin’s “Java Case Study” video course
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In this episode of Clean Coders, guest Daniel Markham walks through several strategies and answers questions Chuck poses about how to make sure that your code communicates and functions in ways that keeps the code maintainable. Daniel is writing a book about coding practices.
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Host * Charles Max Wood
Guest * Daniel Markham
Follow Daniel on Twitter > @danielbmarkham, email: daniel@danielbmarkham.com
Check out Daniel Markham’s, James Grenning’s and Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin’s “F# Follies” video course
Robert C. Martin has been a coder since 1970, co-founder of cleancoders.com, founder of Uncle Bob Consulting LLC, Master Craftsman at 8th Light Inc, and author of the book Clean Agile. Uncle Bob and Chuck start by discussing whether or not there has been a decline in Agile in recent years. Uncle Bob does not believe that agile is declining, but rather that because the number of programmers grows so quickly, Agile has become diluted. Uncle Bob describes what it was like to be at Snowbird writing the Agile Manifesto. He describes it as one of those rare times where a meeting actually produces something. For Uncle Bob, Agile is extreme programming, and they talk about how he came up with the idea for Agile. He talks about the principles in Agile match the principles in extreme programming. They discuss some of the dangers of cherry picking the Agile method. They talk about what kind of data comes out of agile practices and the importance of analyzing the data and responding properly. The essence of keeping the engineering under control is the essence of any team so that you can maintain and clean and improve the code. He and Chuck talk about other things that teams should be doing to maintain the quality, readability, and maintainability of their code. This includes things like communicating the structure of the code throughout the team, code reviews, and pair programming. They talk about the element of courage required to make consequential decisions at the last moment. The show concludes with Chuck and Uncle Bob discussing how to get a team started with Agile methods and Uncle Bob talking about his book Clean Agile.
Panelists * Charles Max Wood
Guest * Uncle Bob Martin
Links * Cleancoders.com * Uncle Bob Consulting LLC * Clean Agile * The Agile Manifesto * Follow Bob on Twitter @unclebobmartin * cleancoder.com * Check out Uncle Bob’s “Clean Code: Functional Programming” video course
Eric rejoins the show to talk about the things that the iOS development community is debating. The first thing brought up is a tweet by Ben Sandofsky around being concise versus being readable. Stay tuned to see Eric’s thoughts on the other debates happening in the iOS development community.
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Host * Charles Max Wood
Guest * Eric Crichlow
* Follow Eric on Twitter > @MisterEGC
Check out Eric’s “iOS Development 101” video course
James Grenning is an expert in embedded systems. He's been working in software for over 40 years. His series on Clean Coders is focused on IoT. James walks Chuck and the audience through the growth of embedded systems and its evolution into IoT. He also walks through the challenges and techniques involved in building code that runs on specific devices.
Host * Charles Max Wood
Guest * James W Grenning
Links * Wingman Software * Wingman Software | Workshops * Follow James on Twitter > @jwgrenning
Check out "Clean IOT James Grenning and Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin" video course
Michael Whatcott is a Go developer at Smarty Streets and co-hosts the Go with Intensity series at Clean Coders. Michael walks Chuck and the audience through the ins and outs of getting started with the Go programming language, how to think about writing programs with the language. Michael and Chuck also talk about the Go community and ecosystem.
Host * Charles Max Wood
Guest * Michael Whatcott
- Follow Michael on Twitter > @mdwhatcott , email: mike@smartystreets.com
Check out Mike Whatcott's and Jonathan Oliver's "GO: With Intensity" video course
Join the 30-DAY CHALLENGE: "You Don't Know JS Yet" Robert C. "Uncle Bob" Martin and Charles Max Wood dive into the intricacies of the last 5 points of the Programmer's Oath. They discuss how programmers have the responsibility to continue to improve their programs, their teams, their teams' practices, and continue to learn.
Host * Charles Max Wood
Guest * Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin
Links * Meade Telescopes * Celestron Telescopes * The Programmer's Oath
- Follow "Uncle Bob" on Twitter > @unclebobmartin
Check out Uncle Bob's "Clean Code: Functional Programming" video course
Sandro Mancuso runs a company that updates projects to use modern tools, techniques, and libraries. Since many companies have systems that have evolved through various programmers, techniques, and frameworks. Sometimes they continue to be used by the company, but lack support, don't perform as needed, or are hard to add features to. He walks Chuck through the process he uses to upgrade older applications.
Host
- Charles Max Wood
Guest
- Sandro Mancuso
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Follow Codurance on Twitter > @codurance
Chris Powers joins the Clean Coders podcast again to talk about how to be ready to seize opportunities and handle trials. Life has given us a huge pile of uncertainty lately. Chris and Chuck discuss how to create some certainty and how to grow during times like this.
Host * Charles Max Wood
Guest * Chris Powers
"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today!
Links * Working Effectively with Legacy Code * The Values of Scrum * Coding Bootcamp | Learn 1-on-1 with a Mentor | Thinkful™
- Follow Chris on Twitter @chrisjpowers, Website
Eric rejoins the show to talk about the things that the iOS development community is debating. The first thing brought up is a tweet by Ben Sandofsky around being concise versus being readable. Stay tuned to see Eric's thoughts on the other debates happening in the iOS development community.
Host * Charles Max Wood
Guest * Eric Crichlow
"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today!
- Follow Eric on Twitter > @MisterEGC
Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin rejoins the podcast to discuss the Programmer's Oath. Bob wrote the Programmer's Oath in 2015. The conversation covers the first 4 points of the Programmer's Oath and the ethics involved in writing software that builds and runs our world. Host * Charles Max Wood
Guest * Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin
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Links * The Programmer's Oath * X-Plane 11 Flight Simulator * ForeFlight
ollow Uncle Bob on Twitter > @unclebobmartin
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! Daniel Markham is writing a book about coding practices. One of the chapters he's been writing is about naming things in your code. He walks through several strategies and answers questions Chuck poses about how to make sure that your code communicates and functions in ways that keeps the code maintainable.
Host * Charles Max Wood
Guest * Daniel Markham
"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today!
Follow Daniel on Twitter > @danielbmarkham, email: daniel@danielbmarkham.com
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! Charles originally interviewed Jonathan at a restaurant in Utah, but there was an issue with the recording and they wound up re-recording remotely due to COVID-19. Jonathan starts out talking about what it was like to put together a video for Clean Coders with Uncle Bob present. Jonathan then talks about taking Uncle Bob up to Snowbird to see where the Agile Manifesto was conceived and signed. We then talk about team organization, hiring, and other challenges of working in a team.
Host * Charles Max Wood
Guest * Jonathan Oliver
"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today!
Links * Working effectively with legacy code * Crucial Conversations – VitalSmarts * The Other Side Academy * Clayton Christensen author page on Amazon * Leadership and self deception book * 7 habits of highly effective people
Follow Jonathan on Twitter > @jonathan, SmartyStreets, email: jonathan@smartystreets.com
Michael Whatcott is a band teacher turned developer working at SmartyStreets. He talks through the processes and procedures we take for granted as software developers.
Panel: * Charles Max Wood
Guest: * Michael Whatcott
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Micah Martin has taken over maintaining the codebase at Clean Coders. He and Chuck discuss how he's working to refactor the codebase into "clean code" and how he's worked with apprentices in the past to teach them to write and refactor to clean code.
Links * Datomic * Email Micah at micah@cleancoders.com, follow him on Twitter @slagyr * Micah's Website
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Eric Crichlow is a software developer in the Phoenix area with 24 years of experience, and he has spent the last 11 doing mobile development. He has also recently released the first three episodes of a Native IOS videos for Clean Coders and wrote the afterword in Uncle Bob’s latest book, Clean Agile. The show begins with Eric talking about how he got into programming, which started way back in second grade. Chuck and Eric discuss the importance of educational background in programmers and agree that they prefer people who have a passion for it rather than just a degree. Eric talks about his experience with OS-9 programming and how he made the switch to mobile development. Chuck and Eric talk about their mutual experience working with smart boards. Eric transitions to talking about how IOS development has changed over the past 10 years. When a new operating system comes out, his go-to method for learning is to pick up a book. He reads the book cover to cover, but he only codes from the first third of it, which is the basic concepts. He finishes the show by talking about his series on Clean Coders and the importance of going out and meeting people for your career.
Panelist * Charles Max Wood
Guest * Eric Crichlow
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____________________________________________________________ Links * Clean Agile * Objective C * Swift * Cotlin * Infusions of Grandeur * iPhreaks Show * OS-9 * Follow Eric on Twitter @MisterEGC or email eric@infusionsofgrandeur.com
Sandro Mancuso started his consultancy business 6 years ago and is one of the pioneers of software craftsmanship in the UK. He learned software craftsmanship from Uncle Bob in Chicago and brought it to the UK and Europe. He has also written a book called The Software Craftsman. Sandro talks about how he met Uncle Bob and got things started in the UK and Europe. He talks about some of the difficulties he encountered, especially in the split between technical focused Agile and process-focused Agile. This split led to the formation of the craftsmanship movement. The core ideas of software craftsmanship are a professional attitude, personal responsibility, community, and professional attitude for clients. Software craftsmanship ideals are best implemented through introspection. Sandro gives some examples on how to get started. For people trying to adopt software craftsmanship without experience, the best resource is the nearby or online community since there has been an effort to keep it an ideology rather than concrete. Clean code books are a must-read for those interested in software craftsmanship. Sandro talks about some software craftsmanship ideas on how to organize teams and some of the first steps to becoming a software craftsman. For Sandro’s company, the first step would be the acquisition of technical skills, consultancy skills, and teamwork, but he acknowledges that every company has different criteria. The show concludes with Sandro talking about a book he has in the works.
Panelist * Charles Max Wood
Guest * Sandro Mancuso
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____________________________________________________________ Links * The Software Craftsman * Scrum * Conway’s Law * Codurance * Follow Sandro on Twitter @sandromancuso and sandro@codurance.com
Chris Powers is the author of Clean Code in the Browser for Clean Coders and VP of engineering for Thinkful. He starts the show by talking about the path he sees people following when they come through Thinkful, which includes weekly meetings with a mentor in the industry. Every person that uses Thinkful comes out prepared for an entry-level position or apprenticeship. Chris talks about the importance of having different levels of skill and experience in a team. He and Chuck discuss the different points at which people start caring about clean code, which is all based on a desire to improve their methods of doing things. He talks about different ways to approach refactoring and how clean code and working code go together. They discuss how the solid principles of clean coding play out in an object-oriented language like JavaScript and the shift in the identity of a frontend developer in the past 15 years.
For Chris, clean code is code that can be easily changed, and that is the ultimate goal. Clean code can be achieved through design principles and judgment. He and Chuck discuss how to know the right amount each to apply. Chris believes it comes down to solving problems you actually have and making the system legible. At Thinkful, they focus on quality, keeping your work in progress low, and delivering early and often. He talks about how to balance people’s desire to get more features and the need to slow down for business reasons and how to recognize friction between the two. Chris talks about how he takes the lead in writing quality software. The show concludes with Chris talking about some of his current projects.
Panelists * Charles Max Wood
Guest * Chris Powers
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____________________________________________________________ Links * Clean Code in the Browser * Thinkful * TypeScript * Kent Beck's 4 Principles of Simple Design * The Technical Debt Trap by Doc Norton * chrisjpowers.com
Daniel Markham is a systems architect and self-taught programmer. He got to know the Agile team back in the day and hung with that crowd. Right now he is working on three books at home and some sample projects for CryptoCurrency. He talks about his history, how he got connected with Uncle Bob and the Clean Coders, and how he got into training teams on how to run good teams of programmers. He shares some of his methods for introducing Agile to a team, which is also covered in his book Info Ops. He talks about his method for organizing his work into a book. Daniel explains how to characterize a team that can use Agile through the metaphor of deck builders. He believes that everything falls into the category of either behavior, structures, and supplementals and that you need to have a desired behavior and tests in your mind in order to do proper coding. He shares some methods for beginning to think about issues, especially when moving things from one database or system to another. He believes that it is important to code the minimum amount you need to do the test and make the behavior happen so that you can walk away from your code. He clarifies that ‘walking away from it’ means to make your code so that you can move on from that project to a new one. Daniel talks about how he got into mentoring teams on the Agile method and some of his experiences from consulting. His latest project is on how typing influences programming. You can learn more on how to be a better coder tiny-giant-books.com
Panelists * Charles Max Wood
Guest * Daniel Markham
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____________________________________________________________ Links * Info Ops * Airtable.com * Tiny-giant-books.com * @daniebmarkham
Uncle Bob (Robert C. Martin) has been a coder since 1970, co-founder of cleancoders.com, founder of Uncle Bob Consulting LLC, Master Craftsman at 8th Light Inc, and author of the book Clean Agile. Bob and Chuck start by discussing whether or not there has been a decline in Agile in recent years. Bob does not believe that agile is declining, but rather that because the number of programmers grows so quickly, Agile has become diluted. Bob describes what it was like to be at Snowbird writing the Agile Manifesto. He describes it as one of those rare times where a meeting actually produces something. For Bob, Agile is extreme programming, and they talk about how he came up with the idea for Agile. He talks about the principles in Agile match the principles in extreme programming. They discuss some of the dangers of cherrypicking the Agile method. They talk about what kind of data comes out of agile practices and the importance of analyzing the data and responding properly. The essence of keeping the engineering under control is the essence of any team so that you can maintain and clean and improve the code. He and Chuck talk about other things that teams should be doing to maintain the quality, readability, and maintainability of their code. This includes things like communicating the structure of the code throughout the team, code reviews, and pair programming. They talk about the element of courage required to make consequential decisions at the last moment. The show concludes with Chuck and Bob discussing how to get a team started with Agile methods and Bob talking about his book Clean Agile.
Panelists * Charles Max Wood
Guest * Uncle Bob Martin
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____________________________________________________________ Links * Cleancoders.com * Uncle Bob Consulting LLC * Clean Agile * The Agile Manifesto * Follow Bob on Twitter @unclebobmartin * cleancoder.com