The Cat Ate My Source Code
The Cat Ate My Source Code
Azam Abdulkadir, Ben Koch, Collin Cierlak
Hosts Azam Abdulkadir, Ben Koch, and Collin Cierlak, software / data engineers at the computer vision company GumGum, discuss topics from prominent software engineering publications and explain how they can be applied to your daily workflow.
Episode 7: The Pragmatic Programmer: Before the Project
In this episode we go over the 7th chapter of The Pragmatic Programmer, discussing digging for, polishing up, and throwing away your requirements.
Jul 26, 2019
25 min
Episode 6: The Pragmatic Programmer: In the Moment
In this episode we go over the 6th chapter of The Pragmatic Programmer, discussing the hazards of programming by coincidence and how to write tests that ease the pain of refactoring with special guest Software Engineer, Steve Kiley.
Apr 15, 2019
39 min
Episode 5: The Pragmatic Programmer: Get Bent
In this episode we go over the 5th chapter of The Pragmatic Programmer, discussing building a flexible architecture and making your application higly configurable.
Feb 1, 2019
26 min
Episode 4: The Pragmatic Programmer: Nobody Writes Perfect Code
In this episode we go over the 4th chapter of The Pragmatic Programmer, discussing contracts, exceptions, and resource management.
Nov 2, 2018
30 min
Episode 3: The Pragmatic Programmer: Do You Even PM?
Continuing with the second chapter of The Pragmatic Programmer, we discuss tracer bullets, prototyping, and estimation techniques with special guest Product Manager, Alex Wang.
Jul 3, 2018
37 min
Episode 2: The Pragmatic Programmer: I don't like duplication. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.
Starting the second chapter of The Pragmatic Programmer, we discuss the evils of duplication, orthogonality in software engineering, and considering reversibility when making architectural decisions.
May 1, 2018
41 min
Episode 1: The Pragmatic Programmer: Broken Windows and Boiled Frogs and Faulty Transistors, Oh My!
Beginning our journey through The Pragmatic Programmer, we discuss software entropy, good enough software, your knowledge portfolio, and what qualities make for a pragmatic programmer. "Note Drop" by Broke For Free is licensed under CC BY-NC 3.0.
Mar 1, 2018
38 min