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ZADevChat Podcast
by The ZADevChat Podcast
A weekly panel discussion with topics around the South African software developer community. Regular panelists are Len Weincier, Kenneth Kalmer and Kevin McKelvin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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70 - BSides Cape Town & infosec with Grant Ongers & Mike Davis
Chantal and Kenneth talk to Grant Ongers and Mike Davis about infosec and the local BSides conference in Cape Town.Grant and Mike are part of the organizing team behind BSides in Cape Town, and both love working in the infosec space. BSides here is based on, and supported by, the BSides…
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73 - Let's Test with Louise Perold
We chat to Louise Perold about testing as a means to improve the overall quality of software, and the upcoming Let's Test conferenceKenneth & Len chat to Louise Perold about the art & practice of software testing. Louise reframes testing in a wonderful light, and how testers compliment and…
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72 - Ladies that UX with Inez, Ridhwana & Lara
We chat to Inez, Ridhwana & Lara about the Ladies that UX communities in Cape Town, and as of today Johannesburg.Chantal, Kenneth & Kevin are joined by the dynamic trio of Inez Patel, Ridhwana Khan & Lara Pietersen to talk about UX and the local Ladies that UX meetups in Cape Town and now...
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71 - Is Intelligence an Algorithm? With Jade Abbott
We chat to Jade Abbott from Retro Rabbit about artificial intelligence, broadly and more specifically about NLP and what that means for us.Chantal, Kenneth & Len talk to Jade about natural language processing, commonly referred to as NLP. What does it take to get a machine to understand what…
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69 - Pink-IT with Ruddy Riba
We talk to Ruddy Riba about her career as a women in tech, and Pink-IT and what they are doing to help women in tech find a supportive community and grow their networks.Chantal, Kenneth & Len talk to Ruddy about some of the challenges woman in technology face, and what she and her partners in...
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67 - The Imposter Within With Clarice Bouwer
We talk to Clarice Bouwer about imposter syndrome, what it is and how to overcome it. Join us as we learn about this and other issues around the often overlooked topics of mental well-being.Chantal & Kenneth talk to Clarice Bouwer. Clarice started the Corporate Programmer blog as a survival guide...
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62 - Data Of All Shapes & Sizes With Gail Shaw
We talk to Gail Shaw about data, in all its shapes and sizes. Gail is a 10 year Microsoft MVP, and has tamed many a database in her career and shares some great insights with us.Chantal, Kenneth & Len talk data with Gail Shaw. From Gail's first 8086 PC, dual majoring in physics & computer science...
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61 - Provencial wifi & Docker in production with Tim Haak
We talk to Tim Haak about playing with wifi networks covering large parts of Gauteng, and running Docker in production, and how to sanely get started with conquering containers.Kenneth & Kevin chat to Tim about Docker, what it is, how its evolving and how to sanely start packaging your apps in...
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60 - Software, embeddables & biltong with Lance Gleason
We talk to Lance Gleason of Polyglot Programming about the software, embeddable devices, biltong and how the local community stacks up against the rest of the world.Chantal, Kenneth & Kevin chat to Lance about his involvement with the South African tech community. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Lance...
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59 - Morgan 3D Printers with Quentin Harley
We talk to Quentin Harley, the "crazy inventor" behind the locally built Morgan 3D PrintersThis episode is brought to you by OfferZen, a South African recruitment startup for developers. OfferZen inverts the normal recruitment process. Instead of applying for jobs, 350 tech companies in Cape…
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58 - Kevin Trethewey on building Driven Alliance
We talk to Kevin Trethewey about his history and building up Driven Alliance and putting people before technology.This episode is brought to you by OfferZen, a South African recruitment startup for developers. OfferZen inverts the normal recruitment process. Instead of applying for jobs, 350 tech...
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57.5 - Devconf 2017
Live from DevConf 2017! Four conversations on the day.This episode is brought to you by OfferZen, a South African recruitment startup for developers. OfferZen inverts the normal recruitment process. Instead of applying for jobs, 350 tech companies in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria, send...
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57 - PyCon ZA with Simon Cross, Neil Muller & David Sharpe
We venture out into Python country only to discover a healthy, diverse and growing community.This episode is brought to you by OfferZen, a South African recruitment startup for developers. OfferZen inverts the normal recruitment process. Instead of applying for jobs, 350 tech companies in Cape...
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Episode 56 - After-dark banter with Simon Stewart
From the importance of pet projects to organizing conferences, come join us as we learn a metric ton from a friend of many developers.Chantal, Kenneth, Kevin & Len are joined by Simon Stewart for a journey through his career as a developer. Simon is a respected and loved figure in many tech...
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Episode 55 - Machine Learning with Guillaume Belrose
What can we teach machines? And what can they teach us?Chantal, Kenneth & Len are joined by Guillaume Belrose to chat broadly about machine learning. Guillaume is currently living in Johannesburg, but hails from the Caribbean. After having studied in France he went onto an internship at HP in...
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Episode 54 - Trail Running with Armand Du Plessis
Join us for a walk down memory lane as we retrace the start of the Ruby community in Johannesburg and end up on the trails of the Aosta Valley.Kenneth & Kevin chat with Armand du Plessis, a long-time Rubyist about his journey from classic ASP to being the CTO of Hornet. We get a small glimpse…
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Episode 53 - Segfault E_TOO_MUCH_COMPUTE
In this age of containers and virtualization, are we losing touch with hardware and the raw performance available to us?Kenneth chats to Kevin & Len about our current understanding of hardware performance and if it matters in this age of containers and virtualization.Spawned by an article on...
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Episode 52 - A Series of Long Conversations with Mike Hewitson
Thinking of a bootcamp as "a series of long conversations" and other gems from teaching software craftsmanship.Kenneth & Len are joined by Mike Hewitson for a talk on the developer bootcamps that Mike helps to facilitate at Investec.Mike shares with us his journey from the army, to the railways,...
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Episode 51 - Who still needs a tester? With Janco Wolmarans and Oz Chihwayi
We reach over the proverbial cubicle wall and chat with the testers!Kenneth, Kevin & Len are joined by Janco Wolmarans and Oz Chihwayi to talk about their experiences of having software testers integrated into a multi-functional software delivery team.Oz shares with us how he went from running...
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Episode 50 - Frolicking Down Memory Lane with Steven McDonald and Pieter Germishuys
We turn 50!Frolicking (verb) - to gambol merrily; to play in a frisky, light-spirited manner. From the Dutch, vrolijk.Kenneth, Kevin & Len are joined by former panelists Steven McDonald and Pieter Germishuys for a look back at the origin of the podcast, the past 50 episodes and the future of our...
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Episode 49 - Segfault E_POOR_DEVELOPMENT_PRACTICES
What poor development practices get under your skin?In the episode Kenneth, Kevin & Len unpack a few poor software development practices that they've seen over and over again.More or less in order they tackled long-lived branches in version control, having too many automated tests, being too...
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Episode 48 - Datomic with Robert Stuttaford
What happens when your database is part of your application?Kenneth & Len are joined once again by Robert Stuttaford from Cognician to talk about Datomic. According to the Datomic website, Datomic is a distributed database designed to enable scalable, flexible and intelligent applications…
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Episode 47 - React and Redux through a fresh pair of eyes with Taariq Isaacs
Join us for a tale of conquering software development as we follow one young star on his journey to taming React.Tonight Kenneth, Kevin & Len are joined by Taariq Isaacs to talk about his journey as a software developer and how he tamed React. Taariq started off his journey at CPUT in their...
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Episode 46 - Prolific Idea with Rishal Hurbans
We're joined again by Rishal Hurbans to chat about his Prolific Idea initiative, how it came to be, what it currently does and where it's going.We talk about the X-Prize Learning Challenge and the importance of letting kids learn while they're having fun. Kevin and Kenneth reminisce about Sesame...
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Episode 45 - Angular 2 with Mike Geyser
Join us as we look into our crystal ball to see what is coming in the next major release of the popular Angular framework.Kenneth & Len are joined by Mike Geyser from BBD to talk about the upcoming Angular 2 release. Mike has been a web developer for many years, having uploaded websites to...
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Episode 44 - Accessibility with Steve Barnett & Justin Slack
Taking a hard look at accessibility and learning about the principles of inclusive design.Kenneth & Len are joined by Steve Barnett and Justin Slack to talk about building accessible frontends. We quickly learn that building an accessible website doesn't always mean catering for people with...
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Episode 43 - Entelect Challenge
Shall we play a game? We dive into artificial intelligence and bots, and their battle for the the ultimate prize.Kenneth & Kevin are joined by Tomislav Ravic, Rishal Hurbans & Hennie Brink from Entelect to talk about the Entelect Challenge and artificial intelligence. The Entelect Challenge is…
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Episode 42 - HyperionDev & the CSA with Riaz Moola
We're having another chat about computing education in the country, this time with a special guest from Durban who is looking to help change the country for the better.Kenneth & Kevin are joined by Riaz Moola from HyperionDev and the Computer Science Association of South Africa (CSASA) to talk...
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Episode 41 - Infrastructure As Code with Charlene Tshitoka
Does infrastructure as code pave the way for repeatable, reliable, consistent and testable infrastructure? Join us as we found out.Kenneth, Kevin & Len are joined by Charlene Tshitoka from ThoughtWorks for a talk about infrastructure as code. Charlene has often gravitated towards the…
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Episode 40 - The Swift Programming Language with Simon Stewart
Kevin and Len are joined by Simon Stewart to discuss the Swift programming language from Apple. Swift is a modern object oriented programming language intended to supersede Objective-C as the standard language in an Apple developer's toolbox.We talk about some of the quirks in Apple's developer...
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Episode 39 - Android with Rebecca Franks
Kenneth, Kevin and Len are joined by Rebecca Franks to discuss the world of mobile development for Android, Google's developer platform and her recent Google Developer Expert accolade.We take a dive into all things Android, starting with the Play Store and the impact that's made on the app...
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Episode 38 - Testing with Joshua Lewis
We tackle the testy topic of automated testing in the life of software projects.Kenneth & Len are joined by Joshua Lewis from nReality (formerly of the JCSE) about the ins and outs of automated testing. We tear through artificial boundaries to unpack the value of testing, as well as potential...
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Episode 37 - Data Visualization with Jeff Fletcher
We tackle data visualization in its full technicolor glory!Kenneth, Kevin & Len are joined by Jeff Fletcher from IS Research & Innovation to talk about data visualization. Jeff has been working in the internet business for quite some time, from JINX to Telkom, Antfarm to IS, UUNet to 365 and...
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Episode 36 - Sisonke Rising with Mandla Magagula and Theo Bohnen
In this weeks episode we share the inspirational story of two developers that have devoted themselves to teaching the disadvantaged youth of two prominent townships, Diepsloot and Olievenhoutbosch, to program.We chat to Theo Bohnen (https://twitter.com/tbohnenjnr) and Mandla Magagula...
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Episode 35 - Kubernetes and Migrating Clouds
In this episode Kenneth turns the table on Kevin and chats about a recent successful migration between clouds and architectures.Kevin and his team at Platform45 recently migrated a well established application (www.resourceguruapp.com) from AWS and EngineYard to Google Container Engine. This was…
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Episode 34 - Live From DevConf 2016
The ZADevChat crew attended the inaugural installation of DevConf recently and recorded some of the action for our listeners. This episode is made up of live recordings throughout the day as we caught up with attendees, speakers and the conference organisers.If you want to hear more of the...
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Episode 33 - Web Frontend Performance with Mannuel Ferreira
We're getting up to speed with the fascinating world of web frontend performance. Concatenation, compression, optimization and more delivered in one speedy package this week!Kenneth, Kevin & Len are joined by Mannuel Ferreira, a web designer and developer from Superbalist.com. Mannuel shares with...
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Episode 32 - PHP with Etienne Marais
We get to work understanding the world of PHP, that scripting language that runs the vast majority of the internet. Is it more than just Wordpress? Join us as we find out!Kevin & Len are joined by Etienne Marais, a senior PHP developer at Superbalist. Before moving to Cape Town, we met Etienne at...
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Episode 31 - PolarbearJS and 12Factor Apps with Ben Janecke
Join us as we explore 12 Factor applications and the Polarbear JavaScript scaffold.Kenneth & Kevin chat to Ben Janecke about his Polarbear scaffold for generating 12 Factor applications using node. The scaffold provides users with a React frontend (with server rendering to boot!) and an Express...
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Episode 30 - Segfault February
Kenneth and Kevin have the first of our Segfault instalments, a monthly banter about things that we find noteworthy but that might not fill an episode (yet).Here are the links to the (majority of the) topics we covered:* Rubyfuza 2016 - http://www.rubyfuza.org/* DevConf ZA 2016, covered on #23 -...
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Episode 29 - The Spine Model with Danie Roux and Kevin Trethewey
We get to work to make sense of a sensemaking framework for human work systems, and learn how to build stronger teams with better communication.Kenneth & Kevin are joined by Danie Roux (@danieroux) & Kevin Trethewey (@KevinTrethewey) to chat about their Spine model, a sensemaking framework for...
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Episode 28 - Hardware Hacking At House4Hack with Toby Kurien
We cross borders into the world of physical computing to chat about hardware hacking at House4Hack.Kenneth, Kevin & Len are joined by Toby Kurien (@TobyKurien), one of the early founders of House4Hack, a maker space in Centurion, and chat about Raspberry PI, Arduino, hacking telescopes…
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Episode 27 - Clojure with Robert Stuttaford
Join us as we explore Clojure, the robust, practical and fast programming language.Kenneth, Kevin & Len talk to Robert Stuttaford (@RobStuttaford), co-founder and CTO of Cognician, about the Clojure programming language and his experience using it for the last few years. We discuss the language...
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Episode 26 - Open Data And Civic Hacking with Jason Norwood-Young
In this episode we explore the local world of open data and civic hacking.Kenneth, Kevin and Len are joined by Jason Norwood-Young (@j_norwood_young) from Code4SA (@Code4SA). Jason was a tech journalist in a previous life and "converted to the dark side" to become a developer. He's currently...
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Episode 25 - Indie Game Development with Ben Myres and Sean Goncalves
In this episode we explore the world of indie game development.Kenneth and Kevin are joined by Sean Goncalves (@The_Son_of_Wolf) and Ben Myres (@_benjamming) from Nyamakop (@_Nyamakop), makers of independent games in Braamfontein, Johannesburg.We touch on the difference between "AAA" and "indie"...
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Episode 24 - The Rust Programming Language
In this episode we turn the spotlight on the Rust programming language.Kevin has been dabbling with it recently and shares his experience of exploring what Rust has to offer."Rust is a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety" -...
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Episode 23 - Devconf ZA with Rob Maclean
Kevin, Len & Kenneth chat to Robert Maclean (https://twitter.com/rmaclean) about the first DevConf ZA (http://www.devconf.co.za) happening on the 8th of March 2016 at the Riversands Conference Venue in Johannesburg.Important dates:Mid-January 2016 - Ticket Sales Open18 January - CFP closes8 March…
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Episode 22 - Season's Greetings
Seasons greetings from Kenneth, Kevin & Len!Thanks for all the support in 2015. Enjoy the break and spending time with loved ones, travel safe!We'll be back early in the new year!"Christmas Rap" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution...
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Episode 21 - Ansible, DevOps And Automation
Kevin, Len and Kenneth speak to Andre Sachs and Gabriel Fortuna about using Ansible for automation, and the broader world of devops.Pick list:AndreSysadmin Advent - http://sysadvent.blogspot.co.za/GabrielLet's Encrypt - https://letsencrypt.orgKennethUlysses App - http://ulyssesapp.com/SE Radio...
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Episode 20 - Buildstuff.lt with Pieter Germishuys
Len, Kenneth and Kevin discuss Pieter's experience at the Build Stuff conference in Lithuania and incentives for attending overseas developer conferencesPicks list:KevinAtom - https://atom.io/Rubyfuza 2016 - http://www.rubyfuza.org/Kennethetcd - https://github.com/coreos/etcdLen99 Bottles of Beer…
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A weekly panel discussion with topics around the South African software developer community.
Regular panelists are Len Weincier, Kenneth Kalmer and Kevin McKelvin.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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