2 Devs from Down Under

Episodes

1. 41

   Episode 41 - "Various" and some technical issues

   For episode 41 we wanted to be so professional. Kai took his podcast microphone to his co-working space (which is on a really fast fibre connection) for a better recording quality to then have their internet connection break apart halfwalf though our podcast. We actually recorded on the 24th of...

   Feb 11, 2017

   1h 03m
2. 40

   Episode 40 - Happy Holidays

   Welcome to 2016's show of 2DDU. Yeah, we know. I guess it was one of "those" years. Anyway - we managed to squeeze in a recording, live from Mark's flash podcasting studio at Google and Kai's home office in Wellington's leafy suburb of Karori. Just in case you don't like the audio quality on…

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   Dec 19, 2016

   56m
3. 39

   Episode 39 - SeaweedFS, Docker, Jetbrains and various philosophical language ramblings

   After just another multi-month hiatus, we're proud to finally publish Episode 39 (now featuring and actual intro music!!!!). This time, we're talking about a whole bunch of different things. Starting off with a brief discussion on what each of us is currently playing (Kai got back into the…

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   Nov 26, 2015

   1h 04m
4. 38

   Episode 38 - Lucee, the fork and open-source licenses

   As announced towards the end of our previous episode, this time we had Geoff Bowers on the show. People might know Geoff from things like Sydney's MXDU resp. webDU conferences, him being the benevolent dictator of the Farcry CMS community and other funky ventures. Also, Geoff's current the...

   Jun 11, 2015

   1h 28m
5. 37

   Episode 37 - California, Lucee, Google Cloud and other things

   Mark has arrived in California, so we spend quite a bit of time talking about his experiences over there (mind you, it's been three weeks so far). His new job is a Developer Advocate at Google and given Mark's previous excitement about working with Google Cloud Tech over the last 12-18 months or...

   May 26, 2015

   1h 03m
6. 36

   Episode 36 - Random things: Rust, Lucee, Android and Fig

   Oh look, there's another episode of 2DDU podcast... This time we're talking about a variety of things and personal news. Mark's off to Silicon Valley soon, interviewing for a job at Google. Kai's passed all the written exams for his Commercial Pilot License. Each to their own! Rust seems to be a...

   Feb 14, 2015

   1h 06m
7. 35

   Episode 35 - Go(ing) to Go

   So, we're finally back. Episode 35 is all about Go and we're joined by Marc Esher (who was on the podcast before). After some a quick run through some "things of today" (that Kai clearly won this time), we get started and try to explain what Go is and its place in the universe of programming...

   Sep 12, 2014

   1h 15m
8. 34

   Episode 34 - Much Belated

   So Kai was meant to put this episode up months and months ago, but he decided to go travelling instead and it has languished since then. So I'm going through the notes now and hopefully I managed to write down everything we talked about. Kai finished off the Data Mining with Weka MOOC recently…

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   Jul 14, 2014

   1h 14m
9. 33

   Episode 33 - Stuff

   This recording was actually supposed to happen before the Holidays. But on the morning, Mark was turned into a domestic goddess for the day by his lovely wife, so we had to postpone. Episode 33 is about "stuff". Among other things we learn that Mark has no bloody idea of proper board gaming and...

   Jan 15, 2014

   1h 02m
10. 32

    Episode 32 - Stuff we hack on

    This episode was about random stuff we're working on or playing with when not necessarily coding for money. Some (more or less) interesting stuff we came up with: Xmonad - a window manager system for Linux: If Xmonad looks interesting to you - here's something similar for OS X: Slate Wordpress...

    Nov 9, 2013

    1h 13m
11. 31

    Episode 31 - The 2DDU Technology Radar

    G'day, it's been a while. Today's episode features our first 2DDU Technology Radar. Oi? What? The guys at Thoughtworks have recently gained a lot of well-deserved fame for doing their Technology Radar. It's essentially a structured list of "stuff" to use, look at, evaluate or be careful with when...

    Jul 16, 2013

    1h 48m
12. 30

    Episode 30 - Broken Code, Rayguns, Enterprise Software and an Ark

    Today we've been joined by John-Daniel Trask, one of Kai's Wellington-based friends who's also the co-founder of both Mindscape and Raygun.io. Kai admitted that Mark clearly won "thing of the day" this time, but he's already planning his come back from that loss for episode 31 in about two weeks....

    Apr 20, 2013

    1h 07m
13. 29

    Episode 29 - Back from the Summer

    After nearly 4 months of "summer break" (yeah, right), we're back. We actually managed to talk about a few really interesting things: Conferences we attended this year (Mark: RubyConf AU, Kai: Webstock) and conferences either or both of us plan to attend. The latter is a rather long: PyCon AU,...

    Apr 6, 2013

    51m
14. 28

    Episode 28 - Our take on the decline of CFML

    So we're taking on a pretty controversial topic, but one that has been talked about a lot in the blog-o-sphere, and something we have touched on tangentially in the past. Here is the list of articles we discuss during the podcast: CFML 2012: State of the Platform State of ColdFusion Platform in...

    Nov 29, 2012

    1h 13m
15. 27

    Episode 27 - Live from cf.Objective(ANZ) 2012!

    In this episode we are joined by the venerable Mark Drew where we talk about his favourite features in Railo 4, what his favourite IDE is and the interesting relationship between Adobe ColdFusion and Railo's CFML engine. It's an interesting conversation all around, and live talks often are,...

    Nov 1, 2012

    55m
16. 26

    Episode 26 - cf.Objective(ANZ) - Marcin & Phil

    Today Kai and I were very happy to have Marcin Szczepanski and Phil Haeusler join us for a panel discussion on the topics that they will be presenting on at the upcoming cf.Objective(ANZ) conference. Marcin gave us a quick run through of the advanced feature of FW/1 that he will be showing off…

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    Oct 10, 2012

    49m
17. 25

    Episode 25 - cf.Objective(ANZ) Speaker: Kris Korsmo

    Today we were joined by Kris Korsmo who is presenting at cf.Objective(ANZ) this year on Efficient Coding Using CFBuilder. We talk with him about IDEs, including ColdFusion Builder as well as other options (and we find out that Kai hates VIM). As well as that, we cover Azure, building Windows 8...

    Sep 10, 2012

    59m
18. 24

    Episode 24 - cf.Objective(ANZ) Panel: Mercer, Mclean & Turner-Jones

    As per usual, we are conducting speaker interview for the wonderful cf.Objective(ANZ) conference! On the panel today we have Andrew Mercer who is presenting Work, ReST and Play, about REST based webservices, Justin McLean who is presenting Android Application Development with Java and Richard...

    Aug 22, 2012

    53m
19. 23

    Episode 23 - More Language Exploration

    We return after a long hiatus with another episode! This episode continues to take us on our exploration of other programming languages. We discuss the work that Mark has been doing with Ruby and JRuby, including integrating it with his ColdFusion project and SOLR as well. This segways into a...

    Aug 16, 2012

    51m
20. 22

    Episode 22 - Clojure and Functional Programming with Sean Corfield

    We got the wonderful opportunity to talk to the illustrious Sean Corfield this week, which was a great delight and pleasure. Continuing with our exploration of "What would happen if ColdFusion died tomorrow", we explore further into the Clojure programming language, as well functional…

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    Apr 23, 2012

    54m
21. 21

    Episode 21 - What would you do if ColdFusion died tomorrow?

    So in this episode, we propose the following hypothetical scenario: Adobe decides that it’s EOL’ing ColdFusion, without open sourcing it. Micha, Denny, Gert and Mark Drew all crash into the ocean in a tragic plane accident (they should really fly separately) and we discover that the OpenBD...

    Apr 20, 2012

    1h 09m
22. 20

    Episode 20 - Various Adobe Stuff

    While we start off talking about Kai's new Android phone, in this episode, we mainly talk through various topics relating to Adobe technologies, and the Adobe business. Moving from what is going on with Apache Flex, to the state of Flash on Linux as well as discussing the pending Java 6 EOL and…

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    Apr 4, 2012

    1h 09m
23. 19

    We're Back with ColdFusion 10 Beta

    The 2DDU podcast has returned in 2012, with an in depth discussion of all thew new bits and pieces that can be found in the public beta release of ColdFusion 10! We go through all the new functionality we can find documented about ColdFusion 10, and discuss which pieces we like, don't like, love...

    Feb 29, 2012

    1h 09m
24. 18

    Episode 18 - The future of Flex

    In a rapid series of pre-holiday recordings we're proud to present episode 18 of "2 Devs from Down Under". This episode is pretty much all about Flex. Mark and I are joined by Dirk Eisman, a friend of mine who's a Flex developer from Germany. Dirk and I have a quite long history from being very...

    Dec 23, 2011

    1h 13m
25. 17

    Episode 17 - CFML Plugin for IntelliJ

    This was an interview that we were really, really excited about. We had the chance to interview Kirill Safonov, who is responsible (amongst other things) for the CFML plugin for the IntelliJ IDE. If anyone follows Kai or Mark on twitter, you will probably know that they have both really started…

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    Dec 20, 2011

    1h 07m
26. 16

    Episode 16 - Live from cf.Objective(ANZ) + Flex

    In this episode, we come to you with a live recording from the cf.Objective(ANZ) + Flex conference, joined by the always information Adobe Evangelist Terry Ryan. Not only was this the first time that Kai and Mark were in the same country to record a podcast (not to mention the same room), it was...

    Nov 18, 2011

    1h 05m
27. 15

    Episode 15 - Rants, Rants and more rants. Also: MAX

    I don't want to take too much of the excitement away from you guys listening to our little, friendly neighborhood podcast this time, but expect some ranting on various levels: Kai had some interesting experiences with Adobe's customer support after Adobe's software activation (resp. a failure in...

    Oct 25, 2011

    1h 20m
28. 14

    Episode 14 - Phil Haeusler and Frau Hofrätin Mamoli

    And again Mark and I ran a session with two guests - coincidentally both speakers at cf.Objective(ANZ) + Flex 2011: Sandy Mamoli and Phil Haeusler. Yet again Mark proved that he struggles to pronounce European last names with umlaut-replacements correctly (well, he's usually not even close) and…

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    Sep 28, 2011

    1h 04m
29. 13

    Even more speakers - and Kai wins!

    This is another episode in which Mark and I are talking to some of the speakers that are going to attend and present at cf.Objective(ANZ) + Flex this year. Today we're discussing a variety of topics: General concepts and pros/cons of version control (Dennis Clark), Test-driven development for...

    Sep 21, 2011

    1h 12m
30. 12

    Episode 12 - More speakers! Bjorn, Geoff and Robin.

    Yet another speaker panel from cf.Objective(ANZ) + Flex! We're joined by the fantastic crew of Bjorn Schultheiss, Geoff Bowers (our first return guest) and Robin Hilliard who joined us to give us an introduction to the topics they are presenting at the conference. This leads us to talk about...

    Sep 11, 2011

    1h 15m
31. 11

    Episode 11: Tanya, Andrew^3 and cf.Objective(ANZ)

    We finally managed to record episode 11 after a hiatus of nearly 2 months, geeez! This was mainly due to a combination of work trips, vacations and renovation projects on my (Kai) end, so don't blame Mark for any of this. In the current episode we're starting a series of speaker interviews (or...

    Sep 7, 2011

    1h 15m
32. 10

    Google+, JavaScript Unit Testing and AngularJS with Elliott Sprehn

    With Google+ coming out the other week, and ColdFusion developers jumping on it like crazy, we thought we would have a chat with Elliott Sprehn, who used to be a ColdFusion developer for Teratech, but has more recently been working in the Mountain View office of Google. Elliott was part of the…

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    Jul 13, 2011

    1h 24m
33. 9

    Episode 9 - A/B Testing and Other Random Stuff

    After being gone for a little while, we are back with our ninth episode! After discussing Mark's new dog, Sukie, and how he's now also addicted to turntable.fm (as I'm sure Kai will soon be as well) we get into some deeper discussion of more relevant topics, such as how Ray Camden has joined…

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    Jun 23, 2011

    1h 17m
34. 8

    Episode 8 - cf.Objective() Wrapup

    Mark recently got back from the amazing cf.Objective() conference in the US. We discuss the content that was part of the keynotes, as well as the new features that were revealed about the next version of ColdFusion - including the revelation that the next version of ColdFusion is coming sooner…

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    May 25, 2011

    1h 10m
35. 7

    Episode 7 - ColdFusion Builder 2 and other goodness.

    This week ColdFusion Builder 2 was released, along with Creative Suite 5.5 and Flash Builder 4.5. We have a chat about Builder 2 and the features we like in it, and also talk through some functionality we would like to see in the product as well. We also have a talk about price discrepancies...

    May 6, 2011

    1h 11m
36. 6

    Episode 6 - Agile and Test Driven Development with ColdFusion and Flex

    What an amazing podcast! We were very privileged to have a panel of incredible people with us today to talk about Agile and Test Driven Development (TDD). A huge thanks to Bill Shelton, Marc Esher, Michael Labriola and Sandy Mamoli for agreeing to join us, and participating in one of the most...

    Apr 26, 2011

    1h 22m
37. 5

    Episode 5 - Mark's Addiction

    We're back again! Starting off this conversation, we discuss Mark's (and probably soon Kai's) addiction to Spiral Knights, which is an incredibly simple and fun Diablo style freemium cross platform MMO (Friend Mark as 'Neurotic', if you play too). Kai takes us through his experience at WebDU this...

    Apr 23, 2011

    1h 09m
38. 4

    Episode 4 - Linux, Mac, Windows and ColdFusion

    Another long episode! We have a long and winding discussion about running and developing for ColdFusion on platforms other than Windows - generally speaking, Linux (Ubuntu, Mark) and Mac (Kai), which takes us well into how we set up our local development environments. Details like how we use...

    Apr 7, 2011

    1h 28m
39. 3

    Episode 3 - We exhaust Geoff Bowers

    After a delay of about one week or 10 days due to Mark moving and me traveling around in Australia to see clients and to attend a course, here's episode 3 of your friendly neighbourhood podcast from Down Under. This was an epic recording of about 90 minutes length - here you go and have some fun...

    Mar 26, 2011

    1h 32m
40. 2

    Episode 2 - We talk about more stuff

    Another instalment from the 2 developers from Downunder. Kai and I talk about a variety of topics, including the books Driving Technical Change, and the ColdFusion Anthology, detour into talking about Adam Lehman's appointment to being the Flash Builder product manager, Kai attending Webstock…

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    Feb 28, 2011

    1h 18m
41. 1

    Episode I - Mark and Kai get started

    This was always just meant to be an experiment. It was fun and we liked it (even though we recorded it at 6 a.m. in Mark's timezone) - here you go. In this episode we're talking about cf.Objective(ANZ) 2010, what's going to happen with cf.Objective(ANZ) 2011, we're covering the big announcement…

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    Feb 13, 2011

    59m