The Anachromystic Podcast

Ted and Craig chat with the infamous, outspoken, and opinionated Allan Branch of Less Everything about web design and a half-dozen other tangents.

Craig's next venture is focused around video production for online promotion leveraging distribution sites like YouTube, Viddler, Vimeo, etc. In this episode he explains some of the lessons learned thus far.

Craig went off the deep end during a recent holiday weekend and repurposed an old PC as the mother of all network storage devices.

Craig grills Ted about getting started with Ruby on Rails.

Ted and Craig interview their old colleague Eric about the crazy stuff he's doing in Java with generics and reflection. This one is very tech heavy; you've been warned.

Ted and Craig interview their old colleague Larry about his recent jump from Salaryville to Freelancington.

Ted and Craig welcome their old colleague Marco to discuss getting people to do what you want.

Craig takes the conversation about the perfect programming language to a whole new level.

Ted and Craig interview John Gallagher from Synaptic Mishap about his latest project: time tracking without timers.

Ted and Craig continue their discussion of the traits they would desire in the perfect programming language, with a couple tangents on Google Wave and the podcast web site design.

Ted and Craig discuss the features they'd like to have in their perfect programming language.

Craig tells his tale of laptop hard drive failure and Ted brags about his latest gig using massive parallelisation to speed-up an excruciatingly slow task.

Ted and Craig discuss the first things they do when starting a new project or working with a new client, from time tracking to requirements gathering, setting expectations, estimating work effort, and recording correspondence for posterity.

Ted and Craig discuss the tools they use for development: IDE's, debuggers, profilers, text editors, refactoring, continuous integration, testing, and more.

Ted and Craig discuss the tools they use for managing their consulting businesses: time tracking, invoicing, clients, projects, etc. Tools discussed include Freshbooks, Basecamp, Pivotal Tracker, Trac, Lighthouse, FogBugz, git and Subversion (again), GitHub, Emurse, and even Pandora.

Ted and Craig answer a listener's request to discuss git versus Subversion, and read and respond to a listener e-mail about using Bayesian logic for automated time tracking. To wrap things up, Craig praises new start-up Blellow and Ted waxes nostalgic about Yammer.

Ted pitches his latest and greatest multi-million-dollar business idea to Craig, which leads to a discussion on successes and failures in the dot-com industry, and why The Right Way to do software development seems so obvious yet so few organizations manage to pull it off.

Ted and Craig discuss Friendfeed's move to a schema-less database, the Oracle-Sun merger and what it might mean for MySQL, hosting providers, iPhone development, and the Twitter OAuth security hole.

Ted and Craig discuss Scala vs. Ruby, Pair Programming, Cloud Computing, and the death of the Java programming language.