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In this episode, we interview our very own Pieter Joost van de Sande.
Pieter Joost van de Sande is an software developer at Happy Pancake. The largest online dating service of Sweden. He actively contributes to numerous open source projects. He is not bound to a specific language or platform, but rather likes to explore the differences.
He regularly present at conferences like Microsoft TechDays, SDC and NDC. Next to that he is one of the founders and board member of Devnology where he helps to organise meetings and runs a populair podcast about software development. His role in the community is recognised by Microsoft who awarded him with the exclusive Microsoft MVP award.
Interview by @daan_van_berkel and @_angelos.
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Happy Pancake The Go programming language Alan Kay on Messaging Martin Fowler on Microservices

In this episode, we interview Laurent Bossavit on the morning after the Joy of Coding conference, May 30th 2015 in Rotterdam.

Laurent has over 20 years of experience around computers, spending most of it in startup environments. He consults with software companies on implementing agile processes in their organizations. As a Francophone, you may know him as the co-translator of Kent Beck's Extreme Programming Explained's French edition.

Interview by @freekl and @daan_van_berkel

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Laurent's presentation on Joy of Coding: The joy of debugging ourselves
Laurent's Book: The leprechauns of software engineering
The BuildStuff conference
The 1968 NATO conference on Software Engineering

This episode features an interview with Scott Wlaschin. Scott has over 20 years experience in software development, design and architecture, covering all aspects of business software. He is the creator of the popular F# web site, fsharpforfunandprofit.com, and has done many F# presentations at conferences and user-groups around the world. Follow Scott on twitter: @ScottWlaschin

This interview was recorded on the 18th of May 2015 at the Infi offices in Utrecht.
Interview by @freekl and @daan_van_berkel

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Scott's blog is fsharpforfunandprofit.com
Presentation: Functional Design Patterns. From the BuildStuff conference 2014.
Uncle bob wrote this blogpost about it
Presentation: From NDC 2014 'Domain Modelling with the F# type system'.
The F# Foundation is on fsharp.org
Presentation: Here's where Dean Wrampler talks about Anemic domain models
Book: The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman. (Revised and Expanded Edition, 2013)
Book: Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change, Victor Papanek, 2005
Book: The Little Schemer, Felleisen and Bibby, 1995 (4th edition)

 

This podcast is in English - Deze podcast is in het Engels

This episode is an interview with Mathias Verraes. Mathias is an independent consultant, based in Belgium. He advises companies on how to build enterprise applications for complex business domains. As a team leader, he helps developers to use best practices. He specializes in curing large legacy projects: writing tests for untestable code, refactoring to Domain Driven Design, and giving applications a second life. Follow Mathias on twitter: @MathiasVerraes

This interview was recorded on the 2nd of November 2014 in Kortrijk.
Interview by @freekl and @pjvds

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Mathias blogs on http://verraes.net/#blog
He offers several workshops
Book: Domain-Driven Design by Eric Evans
Book: Implementing Domain-Driven Design by Vaughn Vernon
More on Event Storming
Mathias is one of the founders of DDD Belgium
There are also 'chapters' in Copenhagen, Paris and Krakow
DDD eXchange by skillmatter is the yearly DDD conference
We mention HHVM/Hacklang (Facebook's backwards compatible PHP replacement)
The PHP Specification: http://hhvm.com/blog/5723/announcing-a-specification-for-php
Presentation: Modelling By Example (Using BDD to drive both the UI and domain model)
Behat (a BDD framework for php) and PHPSpec were mentioned.
In the interview we mention PHP implemented in PHP, but mixed up https://github.com/ircmaxell/recki-ct and https://github.com/ircmaxell/PHPPHP
More info on FP with DDD through Cyrille Martraire and fsharpforfunandprofit
Book: Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers
Book: Refactoring by Martin Fowler

 

This podcast is in English - Deze podcast is in het Engels

In this episode we talk about software testing with Emma Armstrong. We talk about what makes a good tester, and we discuss testing katas as a way to introduce and practice testing.

Emma is a test engineer and all-round do-gooder at Red Gate Software and has been baking quality into software for over 13 years. In that time she’s gotten her hands dirty with both manual and automated testing and had the opportunity to dig into everything from compilers to web applications. She’s worked with most methodologies, gotten to grips with technologies ranging from chipset hardware to UI (and everything in between), managed test teams and is currently working on one of Red Gate’s latest developer tools.
Follow Emma on twitter: @EmmaATester

This interview was recorded on the 4th of October 2014 at the Devnology Community Day at the AFAS offices in Leusden.
Interview by @freekl and @daan_van_berkel

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More on the testing katas in this article : Be deliberate about improving your testing skills
Emma occasionally blogs on http://taooftesting.co.uk
Emma mentions various testing techniques such as Boundary Value Analysis and using Testing Oracles
Smartbear have published some testing katas on API testing here
Emma also mentions adoption of The Three Amigos (BA, developer & QA) process
Emma mentions Markus Gärtner, who recommends http://testing-challenges.org as a great source of ideas for Testing katas.

 

This podcast is in English - Deze podcast is in het Engels

In this episode Daan talks with John Cook, who has worked as a math professor, programmer, manager, and statistician. He is now combining these skills and experiences as a consultant. In this interview we talk about the relation between Math and Software Development, and we discuss some of John's experiences applying math to solve real-world problems.

John is on twitter as @JohnDCook and regularly writes on his blog The Endeavour.

This interview was recorded on the 18th of June 2014.

 

Interview by @daan_van_berkel.

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For more information go to the John D. Cook website
John maintains a number of twitter feeds on various topics, the most popular one on @CompSciFact. A full list is here
A list of John's Journal articles and technical reports is available here
To read more on the software John has written or written about go here