Devs Talking Kevin Hickey, James Spargo, James Thomas, David Nelson

Microsoft's purchase of GitHub has raised a lot of questions. How do we feel about the modern Microsoft? Is our source safe* ? What does this mean for open source? the tech industry in general? James, James and David join Kevin in breaking it down.
* Yeah, pun intended. Tweet at me if you get it @kevin_m_hickey

In this episode, James, James, David and Kevin discuss metrics and their impact on development teams. The team covers the unintended consequences of measuring performance by specific metrics and discuss how they would prefer to be measured. Ratings are a good metric... leave us a good one!

After an extended holiday break, we're back! Kevin and the James's recap what we've been up to since the last episode, and promise more to come in the future.

Software testing is what divides good developers from great ones. Join Kevin, the James’s and David as we talk about some of our favorite test strategies, including TDD, in the first of what I’m sure will be many conversations about testing.

In this episode of Devs Talking, the James’s and Kevin discuss application containers in general, and deep dive into Docker. We discuss the basic concepts of containers and talk about pros and cons in the context of our own experience with Docker.

In the first episode of Devs Talking, get to know Kevin, James and James as we talk a bit about what has impacted us the most in the last few years.