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Ardent Development Podcast

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Derek Hatchard and Ron Smith talk with practitioners and thought leaders in the software development industry in search of inspiration and insights that apply across disciplines including programming, testing, product management, project management, people management, user experience, and security.

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  1. #013 – Test Automation Culture with Daniel Forkosh

    Early in Dan’s career, he saw the clear need for companies to solve technical and cultural challenges around automated testing. He made this challenge his focus. Dan has been in roles ranging from quality engineer, test automation lead, and director of quality engineering. His current role is at...

  2. #012 – Learning Compilers with Cartoons with Vaidehi Joshi

    Vaidehi Joshi started BaseCS to document her self-guided journey into computer science. It turned into a much-loved blog, podcast, and video series. Vaidehi is an engineer at Tilde, in Portland, Oregon, where she works on Skylight (a smart profiler for Ruby and Rails applications). She enjoys...

  3. #011 – Jerk Programmer to Compassionate Coder with April Wensel

    April Wensel, founder of Compassionate Coding, is a veteran software engineer and technical leader whose varied career spans such fields as education, research, healthcare, and entertainment. She has also mentored and led workshops with diversity-focused organizations like Hackbright Academy and...

  4. #010 – Reimagining Your Product with Luke Ball

    Luke Ball is a product leader at Salesforce. After studying computer science in school, Luke started his career in front-end coding and UX. He’s worked as a consultant, an independent contractor, employee #1 at a startup, and, for the last eight years, as a product and UX manager at Salesforce.…

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  5. #009 – Small Town to Tech Giant with Gerry O’Brien

    Gerry O’Brien is a Senior Content Development Manager at Microsoft Learning with a focus on software development and database platforms. He has over 18 years of industry experience in various roles including software development, consulting, and training. Gerry holds a Bachelor of Science in...

  6. #008 – Fingerprints Are Forever: Biometric Factors for Authentication with Adam Englander

    Adam Englander is a software architect with a passion for developing secure and maintainable software. He is the founder of PHP Vegas and truly loves supporting the local and global developer communities. In this episode, Derek and Ron chat with Adam Englander about the basics of using things…

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  7. #007 – Augmenting the Agile Team: A Testing Success Story with Mike Hrycyk

    Mike Hrycyk has been trapped in the world of quality since he first did user acceptance testing 19 years ago. He believes in creating a culture of quality throughout software production and tries hard to create teams that hold this ideal and advocate it to the rest of their workmates. He has…

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  8. #006 – Developer Evangelism and Lessons from Musical Theatre with Chloe Condon

    Chloe Condon, a former musical theatre actress and Hackbright Academy graduate, is a Developer Evangelist at Sentry. Perhaps the only engineer you’ll meet who has been in “Hairspray”, “Xanadu”, and “Jerry Springer: the Opera,” she is passionate about bringing people with non-traditional…

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  9. #005 – Programmer Nostalgia with Kevin Grossnicklaus

    Kevin Grossnicklaus is an old school developer who lives in St. Louis, MO and runs a great team of 7 developers at his company ArchitectNow. At ArchitectNow, he and his team build apps targeting a variety of platforms ranging from web to desktop to mobile. When not building apps for customers,...

  10. #004 – Meet the Host with Derek Hatchard

    Derek Hatchard is an independent writer and software creator, although he took a seven-year hiatus from self-employment to work at Salesforce where he was a developer, software architect, people manager, and product owner. He is a husband and father based in New Brunswick, Canada. Where to Find...

  11. #003 – Meet the Host with Ron Smith

    Ron Smith is the founder of Chalder Consulting, a consultancy offering IT advisory, project management, and business analyst services. He is a husband and father based in New Brunswick, Canada. Ron also runs Managing Projects, a site dedicated to helping project managers with thought-provoking...

  12. #002 – Weird Things About Time with Andrew Burke

    Andrew Burke has been a professional independent developer for over 20 years, working in everything from HyperCard and Lotus Notes to Ruby on Rails and iOS. Besides building software for various businesses, he teaches web development, speaks at conferences, and has several SaaS products and iOS...

  13. #001 – Emotional Intelligence and Leadership with Mike Hayes

    Mike Hayes is a certified coach, teacher, and speaker with the John Maxwell Team and the president of Changing Leaf, a leadership development company dedicated to developing better leaders. He’s also the co-author of Dreaming Big Being Bold 2: Inspiring Stories from Trailblazers, Visionaries and...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Derek Hatchard and Ron Smith talk with practitioners and thought leaders in the software development industry in search of inspiration and insights that apply across disciplines including programming, testing, product management, project management, people management, user experience, and security.

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Derek Hatchard and Ron Smith talk with practitioners and thought leaders in the software development industry in search of inspiration and insights that apply across disciplines including programming, testing, product management, project management, people management, user experience, and security.

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