The Rules of Software Development Andrew Woods

In this episode I'm talking to Naomi Freeman, two time nominated Woman of Influence for Royal Bank of Canada's Women Entrepreneur award. Naomi has been an engineer, team lead, CTO and founder. Naomi is also an instructor for Treehouse and LinkedIn Learning and she actively takes a mentoring role in Rails Girls and Coder Dojo. Naomi is passionate about using Software to better the world and is currently co-authoring a book on Software and Empathy with a working title of The Compassionate Coder...

Hey Everyone, in this episode I'm talking to Will McGreal, a technical recruitment team lead with Morgan McKinley, who specialises in the recruitment of senior technical appointments.Will and I talk about the differing aspects of the relationship that recruiters have with Software Engineers, from the person who is a candidate for a role, to the engineer who is the interviewer. This brings up some interesting scope on how professionalism is understood from a recruiters point of view, and how t...

In this episode I'm chatting to Suhaib Naseem, a Site Reliability Engineer for Bloomberg PolarLake here in Dublin.Suhaib comes from a background in Object Oriented Programming and as such has a good prespective on the relationship and collaboration needed between software developers and SRE's. In this episode we chat about what exactly is an SRE. How does their job depend on the software developer? The joys of monolith releases, why testing is so important, why you should be involved in outag...

Happy New Year. In this episode I'm chatting to Raul Portales, a Senior Android Engineer in Workday, here in Dublin.Raul and I talk about commit messaging how to make it usable. We talk about the use of comments and why you should be trying not to use them!! We discuss working with the product team and how ultimately they are nice people who would look for honesty from engineers. And we talk about the value of saying No!!We also have a discussion around whether software developers should be w...

In this episode I'm chatting with Andrew Sunderland, an Engineering Manager at Ritual.co in Toronto, Canada.Andrew and I talk about Software Craftsmanship, what that means, how it can be achieved, and what exactly does it give us. We discuss the importance of tests and testable code and how this affects handling legacy code. Andrew mentions that for successful legacy code refactoring, engineers should really read Working Effectively With Legacy Code by Michael Feathers. We talk about the nece...

In this episode I'm chatting with Jos van der Linden, a Programme Manager at Infocare Healthcare.Jos and I talk about the stand-out attributes of a professional software developer. Agile methodologies and how deep a software developers knowledge should be. Teams and their skillsets and how teams with differing skillsets thrive. Communication methods and the downfall of some of those methods. And with Jos being a Programme Manager we talk about estimations, planning and how reliable are t...