Dev Discussions

"Pop Programming"

I had the great honor of sitting down with Thomas Van Den Berg, the creator of the video game Kingdom to discuss how he approaches programming, architecture, deployment, and other technical aspects related to building his fantastic strategy game. Learn more about the game on the website http://www.kingdomthegame.com/ Follow Thomas directly on Twitter. Get Unity for Free and Start Making Games

This episode we talk about something a little different. Programming is a technical art. But, building usable software tends to be much more social in nature. I got a chance to corner James O'Brien to discuss Cynefin, a model for understanding and acting upon complexity as well as anti-patterns in communication. Join us as we dive into understanding a model of meta analytical thinking about complexity as well as communication anti-patterns. James' book, "Communicating the UX Vision: 13 Anti-Patterns That Block Good Ideas." Liz Keogh with more information about Cynefin.

An Introduction to Event-Sourcing - Probably wise to have the basics before listening to this episode. A discussion about Command Bus Event Sourcery: An Introductory Course into DDD, CQRS, and Event Sourcing

Shawn and Matt have a conversation about their game development projects, development tools, design patterns, and more. Podcasts 5 Minute Geek Show Mildly Alarming Podcast Game Development Tools Game Programming Patterns Unity 3D Game Maker Studio Corona SDK

Shawn speaks to two consultants, Mathias Verraes and Ross tuck, about Domain-Driven Design (skipping the introductory parts). We discuss temporal modeling, functional modeling, process modeling, and much more. Event Sourcery: An Introductory Course into DDD, CQRS, and Event Sourcing

I talk with Matt Stauffer about learning programming languages and functional programming. Erlang: Erlang: The Movie Erlang: The Movie II - The Sequel Learn You Some Erlang Scala: Free Course on Functional Programming in Scala Reading Material in Order: Scala for the Impatient (Free chapters available) Programming in Scala Functional Programming in Scala (Learn Scala Before Reading)

Matt Stauffer and Shawn McCool have a conversation about Event Sourcing. Event Sourcery: An Introductory Course into DDD, CQRS, and Event Sourcing Broadway on GitHub Shawn's Scala Event Sourcing Learner Project Robin Malfait's Event Sourcing Learner Project Coursera Functional Programming Course (Free, you can start at any time) Errata: Shawn mentioned that Beau wrote the Qandidate project. The project is Broadway from Qandidate Labs. Beau did not, although he has contributed.

I talk with Matt Stauffer and Dan Sheetz from the web-agency Tighten about what developers should know about business.

Ross Tuck, Jesse O Brien, and I discuss the command bus and application service layers. Watch the original live video recording.

In this episode, I talk with Mitchell van Wijngaarden, Davzie, N0xie, and Rafael Dohms about ActiveRecord, DataMapper, Doctrine, and Value Objects. Watch the original live video recording.

In this episode, Adam Wathan and Shawn McCool discuss the discipline of test-driven development. Just a heads up, we pulled this audio from a live video discussion. Watch the original live video record.