Brian D Foy, author of Mastering Perl and Learning Perl 6, and the co-author of Learning Perl, Intermediate Perl, Programming Perl, Effective Perl Programming, and others discusses Perl 7, why it is needed and what it enables for the future. Host...
Ken Youens-Clark, author of Tiny Python Projects discusses Python. Felienne spoke with Youens-Clark about new features in Python, including optional typing and immutable datatypes. They also discussed Youens-Clark’s upcoming book on how to teach...
Marco Faella, author of Seriously Good Software discusses how to create good software, using six different ‘qualities’ of code. Felienne spoke with Faella about reliability, space and time complexity, readability, reusability, and thread safety...
Rob Skillingon discusses the difficulty of scaling monitoring and alerting to high dimensional spaces, as are typically found in modern applications at scale. High cardinality versus high dimension spaces. The episode begins with a review of...
Matt Lacey, author of the Usability Matters book discusses what mobile app usability is and why it can make or break an app destined for consumers, business users or in-house users. Host Gavin Henry spoke with Lacey about the “Six components of...
Sven Schleier and Jeroen Willemsen from the OWASP Mobile Application Security Verification Standard (MASVS) and Testing Guide (MSTG) project discuss mobile application security and how the verification standard and testing guide can be used to...
Philip Kiely discusses his recently published book, Writing for Software Developers. While software development primarily involves writing code, strong written communication skills are critical for multiple tasks. SE Radio’s Jeff Doolittle first...
Paul Smith of GitHub discusses the crystal programming language and the lucky web framework with Jeremy Jung. They cover the tradeoffs of object oriented vs functional programming; creating and debugging macros; detecting nulls; building a web...
Sean Knapp, CEO of Ascend.io, discusses data pipelines and data pipeline automation. Sean spoke with Host Robert Blumen about the ubiquity of data pipelines; what data pipelines do; where the data comes from, how it is transformed, where it goes;...
Ryan Singer, Head of Strategy at Basecamp discusses the mindset and culture behind successful remote work for engineers. Akshay spoke with Ryan about communication, meeting avoidance, collaboration methods for various types of work. Ryan also talks...