Episodios

  • #013 – Test Automation Culture with Daniel Forkosh

    #013 – Test Automation Culture with Daniel Forkosh
    Mar 6 2018

    Early in Dan’s career, he saw the clear need for companies to solve technical and cultural challenges around automated testing. He made this challenge his focus. Dan has been in roles ranging from quality engineer, test automation lead, and director of quality engineering. His current role is at Salesforce as a principal engineer focusing on testing frameworks and enabling teams to build quality into the product.

    In this episode, Dan Forkosh shares about his journey transforming organizations from manual to automated testing and discusses some of the cultural hurdles.

    Where to Find Dan Forkosh

    On the web: danielforkosh.com

    On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielforkosh

    Book Recommendations

    This week’s audiobook recommendations are Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work and What Does by Susan Fowler and Brief, Make a Bigger Impact By Saying Less by Joseph McCormack. Get your free audiobook by visiting ardentdev.com/audible. Thanks to Audible for supporting this podcast.

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    Music by Nazar Rybak and Alvaro Angeloro from HookSounds.com.

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  • #012 – Learning Compilers with Cartoons with Vaidehi Joshi

    #012 – Learning Compilers with Cartoons with Vaidehi Joshi
    Feb 27 2018

    Vaidehi Joshi started BaseCS to document her self-guided journey into computer science. It turned into a much-loved blog, podcast, and video series.

    Vaidehi is an engineer at Tilde, in Portland, Oregon, where she works on Skylight (a smart profiler for Ruby and Rails applications). She enjoys building and breaking code, but loves creating empathetic engineering teams a whole lot more. In her spare time, she runs basecs, a weekly writing series that explores the fundamentals of computer science, and is co-host of the Base.cs Podcast.

    In this episode, Vaidehi shares about her background as a writer and educator, the origins of BaseCS, and how BaseCS is making computer science concepts accessible to a broader audience.

    Where to Find Vaidehi Joshi

    @vaidehijoshi on Twitter

    BaseCS blog series on Medium

    BaseCS podcast

    BaseCS video series

    TEDx talk

    Book Recommendations

    This week’s audiobook recommendations are The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars by Patrick Lencioni. Get your free audiobook by visiting ardentdev.com/audible. Thanks to Audible for supporting this podcast.

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    Music by Nazar Rybak and Alvaro Angeloro from HookSounds.com.

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  • #011 – Jerk Programmer to Compassionate Coder with April Wensel

    #011 – Jerk Programmer to Compassionate Coder with April Wensel
    Feb 20 2018

    April Wensel, founder of Compassionate Coding, is a veteran software engineer and technical leader whose varied career spans such fields as education, research, healthcare, and entertainment. She has also mentored and led workshops with diversity-focused organizations like Hackbright Academy and Black Girls Code.

    In this episode, April talks about her past as a jerk programmer, how she came to recognize that her behavior was problematic, and why she started Compassionate Coding to help teams deliver better products more effectively.

    We were inspired to invite April on the podcast after reading her fantastic article Confessions of a Recovering Jerk Programmer.

    Where to Find April Wensel

    @aprilwensel and @compassioncode on Twitter.

    On the web at https://compassionatecoding.com/.

    Book Recommendation

    This week’s audiobook recommendation is Awakening Compassion at Work: The Quiet Power that Elevates People and Organizations. Get your free audiobook by visiting ardentdev.com/audible. Thanks to Audible for supporting this podcast.

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    Music by Nazar Rybak and Alvaro Angeloro from HookSounds.com.

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  • #010 – Reimagining Your Product with Luke Ball

    #010 – Reimagining Your Product with Luke Ball
    Feb 13 2018

    Luke Ball is a product leader at Salesforce. After studying computer science in school, Luke started his career in front-end coding and UX. He’s worked as a consultant, an independent contractor, employee #1 at a startup, and, for the last eight years, as a product and UX manager at Salesforce. At Salesforce, he was on the original Chatter team and has worked in various capacities on Search, Einstein, and Mobile. For the last four and a half years, he worked on Social Studio, Salesforce’s platform for social media management.

    We’ve all heard the analogy of changing the engine while still flying the plane. In this episode, Luke Ball shares his insights and experiences reimagining an established software product. We discuss information gathering, painting a vision for the future, getting buy-in, managing expectations, and more. A must-listen for anyone working on evolving existing software products.

    Where to Find Luke Ball

    At lukeball.com

    @holidomelarry on Twitter

    Book Recommendation

    This week’s audiobook recommendation is The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees) by Patrick M. Lencioni. Get your free audiobook by visiting ardentdev.com/audible. Thanks to Audible for supporting this podcast.

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    Music by Nazar Rybak and Alvaro Angeloro from HookSounds.com.

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  • #009 – Small Town to Tech Giant with Gerry O’Brien

    #009 – Small Town to Tech Giant with Gerry O’Brien
    Feb 6 2018

    Gerry O’Brien is a Senior Content Development Manager at Microsoft Learning with a focus on software development and database platforms. He has over 18 years of industry experience in various roles including software development, consulting, and training. Gerry holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Mobile Development degree and has experience with C#, C++, Visual Basic, Java, Objective-C, Swift, iOS Development, Android Development, and more.

    In this episode, Derek and Ron reconnect with their old teammate, who went from HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) professional in small town Canada to content and curriculum guru at Microsoft Learning in Seattle. Gerry shares the journey that brought him to Microsoft, what he loves about working at the tech giant, and some of the interesting things Microsoft Learning is doing.

    Where to Find Gerry O’Brien

    @gerryob on Twitter

    Book Recommendation

    This week’s audiobook recommendation is Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain. Get your free audiobook by visiting ardentdev.com/audible. Thanks to Audible for supporting this podcast.

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    Music by Nazar Rybak and Alvaro Angeloro from HookSounds.com.

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  • #008 – Fingerprints Are Forever: Biometric Factors for Authentication with Adam Englander

    #008 – Fingerprints Are Forever: Biometric Factors for Authentication with Adam Englander
    Jan 30 2018

    Adam Englander is a software architect with a passion for developing secure and maintainable software. He is the founder of PHP Vegas and truly loves supporting the local and global developer communities.

    In this episode, Derek and Ron chat with Adam Englander about the basics of using things like fingerprints and facial recognition as authentication factors. Adam shares some of the potential risks and how to best think about using biometrics as part of a multi-factor authentication solution.

    Where to find Adam Englander

    @adam_englander on Twitter

    On the web at https://www.iovation.com/

    Enjoy the show and be sure to follow Ardent Development on Twitter.

    Book Recommendation

    This week’s audiobook recommendation is The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants by John C. Maxwell. Get your free audiobook by visiting ardentdev.com/audible. Thanks to Audible for supporting this podcast.

    Follow @ardentdev

    Music by Nazar Rybak and Alvaro Angeloro from HookSounds.com.

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    27 m
  • #007 – Augmenting the Agile Team: A Testing Success Story with Mike Hrycyk

    #007 – Augmenting the Agile Team: A Testing Success Story with Mike Hrycyk
    Jan 23 2018
    Mike Hrycyk has been trapped in the world of quality since he first did user acceptance testing 19 years ago. He believes in creating a culture of quality throughout software production and tries hard to create teams that hold this ideal and advocate it to the rest of their workmates. He has worked many roles, but always returning to testing. Mike is currently the Director of Quality for PQA Testing. In this episode, Derek and Ron chat with Mike Hrycyk about his experience using a regression testing team to augment feature teams, handling the testing regression cycle while the feature teams (developers and testers) do new development. He makes a compelling case and his story of success is well worth the listen. Where to find Mike Hrycyk @qaisdoes on Twitter On the web at qaisdoes.com Enjoy the show and be sure to follow Ardent Development on Twitter. Follow @ardentdev Transcript Ron: We are joined today with Mike Hrycyk who has been trapped in the world of quality since he first hit his user acceptance testing 19 years ago. He has survived all the different levels, and a wide spectrum of technologies and environments to become the quality dynamo that he is today. Mike believes in creating a culture of quality through software production and tries hard to create teams that hold this ideal and advocate it to the rest of their workmates. Mike’s currently the director of quality for PQA Testing but has previously worked in social media management, parking, manufacturing Web photo retail music delivery kiosks and railroad. So welcome to the show, Mike Mike: Thank you. Glad to be here. Derek: It’s good to have you Mike. Ron: Glad to have you. Now you just finished up at a conference. We thought we’d have you on to talk a little bit about your first talk that you gave there are. Augmenting the gentle team, a testing success story. Could you give us started on that topic, Mike. Mike: Well sure, for sure. So Agile for me is a bit of a passion, I think. I really believe in the power of Agile. But one of the things that I’ve learned in working with people who do Agile is that when when people self teach or when they have bad coaches people seem to believe that there’s a right way to do Agile, that there’s one way to do Agile and they go out and they find a how to guide for how to do Agile and it teaches you how to implement it. But the problem with that is that every situation is incredibly different and that Agile isn’t really set up to be a how to guide it’s set up. It has a manifesto, it’s a set of concepts and it’s something that everyone who adopts it has to figure out how to do it right. And so I had a project that we did with one of our clients so, we’re testing as a service company. And we got involved with one of our clients where we did an assessment and helped them figure out what they needed to to be successful and some of the work they were doing. And one of the things that that we were looking at with them was is what they’re doing, is it doing Agile wrong, is it doing it right? And I have this personal mission to make sure that no one believes that you’re doing Agile wrong as a term that you can hear. I’m not sure if you guys are familiar with the concept but when I hear that it just makes me angry because Agile is an iterative approach to everything and it’s the way that there’s no way that it needs to be done. You’re doing it right, if it’s working for you. And so this talk that I put together is sort of a case study from a project where we did take and went way off the standard realm of Agile and did it our own way. And I wanted I talk about how we did it what the problems were and what the success was to help people see that doing Agile your own way is probably the best path to success. That makes sense? Ron: Absolutely. It’s an interesting topic because as you go from company to company and do different assignments there you see Agile implemented in different ways. And I think if you talk to the folks that are involved in projects they would actually give you a slightly different slant which I think is aspirates this topic of are we doing it right. Because I.T. is often, you know years ago, there’s a right and wrong way if you will, right there seems. But this seems somewhat fluid. I think people are having a hard time knowing you know are we doing well or are we doing it right? Mike: Well and for someone who grew up in Waterfall who’s spent years having lists of things that you need to do to do things properly Agile so different from that. And I think that’s one of the reasons that some people and I hesitate to call people old timers but if that’s your mindset maybe that’s the right way to say it. You get stuck in that mindset and Agile has too much change, it’s just too fluid and it’s difficult for you to go into that new world where you might have to be able to shift every two weeks, you might have to be able to shift the way you...
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  • #006 – Developer Evangelism and Lessons from Musical Theatre with Chloe Condon

    #006 – Developer Evangelism and Lessons from Musical Theatre with Chloe Condon
    Jan 16 2018
    Chloe Condon, a former musical theatre actress and Hackbright Academy graduate, is a Developer Evangelist at Sentry. Perhaps the only engineer you’ll meet who has been in “Hairspray”, “Xanadu”, and “Jerry Springer: the Opera,” she is passionate about bringing people with non-traditional backgrounds into the world of tech. If you’re trying to place her face, yes, she’s the young woman giving the awkward thumbs up in the “What It’s Like to be a Woman at a Tech Conference” article (which she also wrote). A quick Google search of her will provide you with getting started with Docker videos, theatre reviews, tech blogs, and videos of her singing—enjoy! In this episode, Derek and Ron chat with Chloe about her role as a developer evangelist as well as her background in musical theatre and what insights can be gleaned from comparing and contrasting tech and theatre as industries. Chloe also shares a high-level overview of Sentry, the cross-platform crash reporting and aggregation platform. Where to find Chloe Condon @ChloeCondon on Twitter On the web at https://medium.com/@chloecondon Enjoy the show and be sure to follow Ardent Development on Twitter. Follow @ardentdev Transcript Ron: Welcome to the Ardent Development podcast. I’m Ron Smith. Derek: And I’m Derek Hatchard. Today we’re talking with Chloe Condon. Chloe is a former musical theater actress and Hackbright Academy graduate and she is now a developer evangelist at Sentry. She is perhaps the only engineer you’ll meet. I think the only one that I know who has been in Hairspray is Xanadu and Jerry Spinger the opera. She is passionate about bring people with non-traditional backgrounds into the world of tech. If you’re trying to place her face she is the woman giving the thumbs up in the what it’s like to be a woman at a tech conference article, which she wrote. I found that on Medium and there might be other places, Chloe can correct me in a second. And a quick google search for her will tell you that she has a series of getting started with docker videos. You find some theater reviews that she’s on, tech blogs and I think the hilarious videos of her singing after. So Chloe welcome to the show. Chloe: Thank you. Thank you for having me. Derek: So Chloe, you’re a developer evangelist at a company called Sentry and some of us have bumped into plenty of developer evangelists in our time. But for those listening who don’t really know what that role is. Could you really unpack it for us? What is it? What do your days look like? Tell us a little bit about that experience is like. Chloe: Sure, so it’s kind of funny. Usually when I tell people who aren’t familiar with the role they say “Oh is that a religious thing”? And my answer is usually well in a sense. But basically I call myself an extroverted engineer. The title I go by is developer evangelist. Other people go by DevRel, developer advocate. There’s a lot of different flavors and varieties of us. So personally I got into the evangelism space because I have a non-traditional background. I come from theater world. And when we were presenting our projects at Hackbright I discovered pretty quickly like oh wow nobody likes to do public speaking. This is very interesting. So that’s kind of part of what I do. So oftentimes I will go to conferences and I will speak about various thought leadership topics. Right now I’m doing a lot of stuff around the error blogging you know metrics space, in my previous role I did a lot of Docker evangelism. So it’s a combination of a couple of things, it’s speaking, it’s writing content. So a lot of the times and you see tutorials or walkthroughs on different websites that’s often made by me and our content person. Doing everything from case studies to writing code examples for different integrations and features that we have. I’m organizing our meetup that’s going to be a monthly meet up starting in January. So it really depends what I like about it a lot is my role changes every single day. Just looking at my calendar next week I’m like breaking it down and seeing OK I’m writing this thought leadership blog and then all day Thursday we’re filming all around the city for our meet up, we’re doing a promotional video for our meet up. We just published The 12 Days of integrations gif blog posts where we call ourselves very gif positive here at Sentry every new employee gets a welcome gif. e featured all of our integrations over the 12 days leading to the holidays which involved having our different engineers hold up different ornaments with the logos of our integrations on them. So there are some really fun kind of theatrical aspects of my role. But a lot of it requires this pretty deep understanding of technology and our product and being able to code. So I definitely went in more non-traditional route as a first role in these software engineering role or world, I should say. But I felt that it ...
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