Documentation Not Included - Episodes Tagged with “Dev”

Ep 77 - Code Reviews, Electrical Installations, Search Engines

Documentation Not Included — Mon, 16 May 2022 18:00:00 +0100

Chris and Josey return to the show's roots to discuss developing search engines, discuss code reviews (and how to not do them), and electrical installations!

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Quality Counts

Documentation Not Included — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 19:00:00 +0000

Chris is joined by Frank Ray to discuss quality in relation to software.

TOPICS

What is up with quality?
Seeing the big picture
The "Quality Wrap"
...and a lot more!

Special Guest: Frank Ray.

Hitting the Ground Running

Documentation Not Included — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 19:00:00 +0000

Chris and Josey discuss how to get back into the swing of projects after a long absence.

TOPICS

How to plan for project breaks
How to get back into projects
What happens when a global event impacts project scope
How to get involved in a project that is already running
...and so much more!

Angular Testing (Sorta!)

Documentation Not Included — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 07:00:00 +0100

Shai Reznik joins Chris and Josey to chat about TDD in Angular. At least that was the intent! We do cover TDD, but do we get to TDD for Angular? Well....

TOPICS

What are the benefits of TDD?
How do you justify ROI for implimenting testing
Where is the best place to start?
...and a lot more

Special Guest: Shai Reznik.

Migration Mumbles Pt. 2

Documentation Not Included — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 09:00:00 +0000

In part 1, we discussed code migrations. This time Chris and Josey discuss other types of migrations including ALM, Infrastructure, and more.

TOPICS

Why do migrations happen?
Who is impacted?
What is the first step?
What types of migrations are there?
...and so much more

Bashing Bothersome Bugs & Chasing Chunks of Cash

Documentation Not Included — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Chris and Josey discuss bug bounty programs, actions to take if randomly stumbling upon a security vulnerability, reporting pros/cons, and a lot more. Is the answer really black and white, or is it all grey?

TOPICS

What is a bug bounty program
When and how should you report discovered potential attack vectors or security vulnerabilities
Mental and moral exercises discussing the potential pros/cons of reporting or not
Is the answer to handling a report really a black and white issue? Or is it more grey?
...and so much more!

Links:

We found 6 critical PayPal vulnerabilities - and PayPal punished us for it | CyberNews

Milestone One

Documentation Not Included — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 07:00:00 +0100

Documentation Not Included is now older, though perhaps not wiser. Chris and Josey discuss the past year and reveal secrets about the upcoming future!
TOPICS

The Past
The Present
The Future

Impersonating Developers

Documentation Not Included — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 09:00:00 +0100

Gordon joins Chris again, this time as A Time To Change Champion, to look at impostor syndrome and more!

TOPICS

What is impostor syndrome?
What can cause it?
How can you work with, or deal with it?

Special Guest: Gordon Johnston.

Proprietary Tools: Stagnation or Growth

Documentation Not Included — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 19:00:00 +0100

Bjørn Reiten joins Chris and Josey to discuss working with prprietary tools. Can they stay on topic or will the desire to dig into PLC programming take over the show?

TOPICS

Working with proprietary tools
Working with standards
...and anything else would be telling!

Special Guest: Bjørn Reiten.

Links:

JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER AIR VEHICLE C++ CODING STANDARDS FOR THE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM — The intent of this document is to provide direction and guidance to C++ programmers that will enable them to employ good programming style and proven programming practices leading to safe, reliable, testable, and maintainable code. Consequently, the rules contained in this document are required for Air Vehicle C++ development1 and recommended for non-Air Vehicle C++ development.

Workplace Agility

Documentation Not Included — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 19:00:00 +0100

Mark Walsh is back, and this time it's all about Agile methodologies. What is it? Is anyone truely using it? Did you know there is an Agile Manifesto? That and more this episode!

TOPICS

Agile Manifesto
Can companies be truely 100% Agile?
What is Kanban? Scrum? Scrumban? Kanum?
...and so much more!

Special Guest: Mark Walsh.

Links:

Agile Alliance — Agile Alliance is a nonprofit member organization dedicated to promoting the concepts of Agile Software Development as outlined in the Agile Manifesto. We have supported and served the Agile community since 2001.

Team Culture

Documentation Not Included — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 07:00:00 +0100

Sam Strauss joins Chris and Josey bringing new insight to what is team culture, how to form it, and most importantly, how to survive it!

TOPICS

What is team culture?
How to form a positive team culture...
Managerial styles (being macro/micro)
How to survive team culture
...and more!

LINKS
...coming soon

Special Guest: Sam Strauss.

Migration Mumbles

Documentation Not Included — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 19:00:00 +0100

Mark Walsh joins Josey and Chris to discuss the "joys" found in doing a code migration. It's all fun and games right?

TOPICS

Why would a code migration be needed?
What challenges are there?
Is it pure lunacy?
...and more?

LINKS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lB74Zg3QSw: Legacy Code: Big Rewrite or Progressive Rejuvenation? - Uberto Barbini | #LeadDevLondon 2018

Special Guest: Mark Walsh.

Links:

Legacy Code: Big Rewrite or Progressive Rejuvenation? - Uberto Barbini | #LeadDevLondon 2018

%&$@$!! Contractors - They Took Our Jaaaaabs!

Documentation Not Included — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 19:00:00 +0100

Chris is joined by one of our regular guests, Anthony Keenan, to discuss the employee's perspective on contractors, freelancers, and more. Can Chris keep the topic of IR35 out of the discussion? Listen in to find out!

TOPICS

Freelancer? Contractor? Just what are they?
Company policies on interactions with these wraithlike individuals
Maybe IR35? Maybe not?
Saying no... it's more than just a word. It defines roles
...and so much more

Special Guest: Anthony Keenan.

Scope it up, Furball!

Documentation Not Included — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 19:00:00 +0100

Can Chris and Josey prevent scope creep during their episode on scope creep?

TOPICS

What is Scope Creep?
What causes it?
How to handle it as a project manager
How to handle it as someone with no control of the project itself
Other strange tales from the world of project management...

Oi! Freelancer! You're Fired! Part Two

Documentation Not Included — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 19:00:00 +0100

Chris and Josey continue their discussion about being fired as contractors/freelancers/company. This time, it's all about how to handle it and use it to better yourself, your company, and your relationships with your clients...and yes, we even mean the ones who fired you.

TOPICS

Recap of Part 1
Client intereaction
Perspective
Personal Reflections
Lessons Learned and more!

Python: The Second Language

Documentation Not Included — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 19:00:00 +0100

Owain Williams has lived and breathed C#. So what made him want to look at Python? The DNIStream team looks at what it is like to learn a second programming language, and even get into a debate about the very definition of the term "language".

TOPICS

What is the definition of language?
Why python?
What is special about it?
The real pros about having more than one language in your toolkit
...and more!

LINKS
Pragmatic Programmer Beta (20th Anniversary edition)

Python Tutorial for Beginners - Mosh Hamedani

Python Crash Course 2nd Edition

Git Repo of Owain's code

Python by Socratica

Special Guest: Owain Williams.

Freelance Fun - A Primer

Documentation Not Included — Thu, 30 May 2019 19:00:00 +0100

Chris and Josey start the Freelance version of Documentation Not Included with a Primer on topics that will discussed.

TOPICS

To certify, or not to certify
Clients
Finances
Legals
..and oh so much more!

Weird Dev Stories II

Documentation Not Included — Thu, 23 May 2019 19:00:00 +0100

Anthony join Chris and Josey again, this time to share strange and funny stories from the dev and tech world. Bit thanks to our listens who sent in their own horror stories!
TOPICS

Cat Litter is useful!
Dr Who?
Mt Sebok
Git what?
.. and much more!

Special Guest: Anthony Keenan.

Enforced QA

Documentation Not Included — Thu, 16 May 2019 19:00:00 +0100

Developers love QA right? ...right? Anthony Keenan joins Chris and Josey to look at what QA is, isn't, who should be doing it and who shouldn't. At no point do we have disagreements about this topic...what side do you fall on?

TOPICS

What is QA?
Difference between TDD, BDD, QA
What processes are involved?
Should developers be involved in QA?
...and more!

Special Guest: Anthony Keenan.

Dev Communities & Events

Documentation Not Included — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 19:00:00 +0100

Paul Verbeek-Mast joins the DNI team as we dig in to developer communities and events, their impact, how they have changed over the years, and how to get involved.

TOPICS

What goes into organising conferences and meetups?
Inclusivity
...and more!

LINKS

https://twitter.com/MatthewGerstman/status/1110363827655376897?s=09

Special Guest: Paul Verbeek-Mast.

BIG vs small Companies pt 2

Documentation Not Included — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 19:00:00 +0100

Patryk's back and boy does he have some opinions on BIG vs small companies, especially in the game development industry! 4

TOPICS

Job Stability
Game Development
Teams
Development speed and more!

US vs THEM

Documentation Not Included — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 19:00:00 +0000

We've all seen it, the US vs THEM mentality. Be it bean-counters, juniors, sysadmins, developers, and others. Dan Howarth joins us this episode to discuss who US and THEM are, is separation bad, the effects of this mentality, and what we can all do to just get along!

TOPICS

Who is US?
Who is THEM?
What causes this rift?
How do we get past it?
Rants, and more!

Special Guest: Dan Howarth.

What a Big Docker You Have

Documentation Not Included — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 19:00:00 +0000

Thornton Phillis joins us to discuss Docker, Containerisation, and more.

TOPICS

Docker
Kubernetes
Docker Swarm
Docker File

LINKS

Special Guest: Thornton Phillis.

The Developer Interview Process, WTF?

Documentation Not Included — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 19:00:00 +0000

Anthony Keenan joins us to discuss (rant about) the developer interview process.

TOPICS

Practical / Technical / Art Tests
Pair Programming Interview
Difference between the Freelance and Permanant inteview process
Asking the right questions
Time Wasting for Interviewers and Interviewees
Code Reviews / Refactor Test
The interview process that steals your answers

Special Guest: Anthony Keenan.