Programming Throwdown educates Computer Scientists and Software Engineers on a cavalcade of programming and tech topics. Every show will cover a new programming language, so listeners will be able to speak intelligently about any programming language.
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The world of computer programming is vast in scope. There are literally thousands of topics to cover and no one person could ever reach them all. One of the goals of the Coding Blocks podcast is to introduce a number of these topics to the audience so they can learn during their commute or while cutting the grass. We will cover topics such as best programming practices, design patterns, coding for performance, object oriented coding, database design and implementation, tips, tricks and a who ...
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This podcast talks about how to program in Java; not your tipical system.out.println("Hello world"), but more like real issues, such as O/R setups, threading, getting certain components on the screen or troubleshooting tips and tricks in general. The format is as a podcast so that you can subscribe to it, and then take it with you and listen to it on your way to work (or on your way home), and learn a little bit more (or reinforce what you knew) from it.
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John Sonmez wants to help you become more successful, make more money, deal with difficult coworkers and be so productive everyone thinks you must be abusing a prescription for Ritalin. Listen in every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, as Simple Programmer founder, John Sonmez, answers questions, interviews guests and shares everything he knows to help you become a top performing software developer. The Simple Programmer Podcast is a short podcast that is a mix of career advice, philosophy and s ...
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Erlang and sometimes other functional programming
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The BaseCode Podcast is a collection of mini-series discussions between Jason McCreary and Jess Archer on practices for writing less complex, more readable code, testing, and building products.
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Things to Know when Considering Multi-Tenant or Multi-Threaded Applications
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For the full show notes head over to: https://www.codingblocks.net/episode241By Michael Outlaw, Allen Underwood, Joe Zack
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Grab your headphones because it's water cooler time! In this episode we're catching up on feedback, putting our skills to the test, and wondering what we're missing. Plus, Allen's telling it how it is, Outlaw is putting it all together and Joe is minding the gaps! View the full show notes here: https://www.codingblocks.net/episode240 Reviews Thank …
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175: Resume Writing Intro topic: DSLR Photography vs Camera Phone News/Links: Free Internet while flying by abusing edits to your profile name https://robertheaton.com/pyskywifi/ Making Animated Characters with AI Art https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSN76gb_Z28 On 10x Engineers https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/06/19/the-real-10x-developer-makes-thei…
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Allright, it is time to pull the curtain on all this AI stuff and really learn how it works! On this episode we dive deep into AI, and Neural Networks, refinenements, vector databases (and why we need them) so you can understand the underlying principles of AI and LLM! The field is so vast, intersting and more importantly it's going to be here to s…
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For the full show notes please visit: https://www.codingblocks.net/episode239By Michael Outlaw, Allen Underwood, Joe Zack
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AI, Blank Pages, and Client Libraries...oh my!
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It's Water Cooler Time! We've got a variety of topics today, and also Outlaw's lawyering up, Allen can read QR codes now, and Joe is looking at second careers. View the full show notes here: https://www.codingblocks.net/episode238 News As always, thank you for leaving us a review – we really appreciate them! Almazkun, vassilbakalov, DzikijSver Atla…
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Alternatives to Administering and Running Apache Kafka
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View the show notes on the web: https://www.codingblocks.net/episode237 In the past couple of episodes, we'd gone over what Apache Kafka is and along the way we mentioned some of the pains of managing and running Kafka clusters on your own. In this episode, we discuss some of the ways you can offload those responsibilities and focus on writing stre…
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Intro topic: Social Media Auto Responder LLM News/Links: Amazon releases Amazon Q https://press.aboutamazon.com/2024/4/aws-announces-general-availability-of-amazon-q-the-most-capable-generative-ai-powered-assistant-for-accelerating-software-development-and-leveraging-companies-internal-data Cheap RiscV “Super Cluster” from Bitluni DIY 256-Core RISC…
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Topics, Partitions, and APIs oh my! This episode we're getting further into how Apache Kafka works and its use cases. Also, Allen is staying dry, Joe goes for broke, and Michael (eventually) gets on the right page. The full show notes are available on the website at https://www.codingblocks.net/episode236 News Thanks for the reviews! angingjellies …
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We finally start talking about Apache Kafka! Also, Allen is getting acquainted with Aesop, Outlaw is killing clusters, and Joe is paying attention in drama class. The full show notes are available on the website at https://www.codingblocks.net/episode235 News Atlanta Dev Con is coming up, on September 7th, 2024 (www.atldevcon.com) Intro to Apache K…
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StackOverflow AI Disagreements, Kotlin Coroutines and More
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https://www.codingblocks.net/episode234 Reviews iTunes: ivan.kuchin News Atlanta Dev Con September 7th, 2024 https://www.atldevcon.com/ Topics People trying to remove their answers from StackOverflow to not allow OpenAI to use their answers without permission/recognition? https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-over…
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173: Mocking and Unit Tests Intro topic: Headphones News/Links: Texas A&M University Physics Festival https://physicsfestival.tamu.edu/ Rust vs Cpp at Google Lars Bergstrom (Google Director of Engineering): Rust teams at Google are as productive as the ones using Go and 2x those using Cpp https://youtu.be/6mZRWFQRvmw?t=27012 Is Cosine Similarity Re…
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Llama 3 is Here, Spending Time on Environmental Setup and More
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Full episode show notes can be found at: https://www.codingblocks.net/episode233By Michael Outlaw, Allen Underwood, Joe Zack
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Episode 104. It's all about Apache Tika, the project that lets you index EVERYTHING.
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So we continue to have guests in our show to talk to us about interesting things... This time is about Apache Tika. This is an incredible tool to do search file processing and metadata extraction. Think about that you have tons of unstructured files, like emails, or documents, and you want to extract, index and then search theses. This is Tika's pu…
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Ktor, Logging Ideas, and Plugin Safety
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Picture, if you will, a nondescript office space, where time seems to stand still as programmers gather around a water cooler. Here, in the twilight of the workday, they exchange eerie tales of programming glitches, security breaches, and asynchronous calls. Welcome to the Programming Zone, where reality blurs and (silent) keystrokes echo in the de…
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Importance of Data Structures, Bad Documentation and Comments and More
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Full show notes at: https://www.codingblocks.net/episode231By Michael Outlaw, Allen Underwood, Joe Zack
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Episode 103. Let's share data cross-language with Apache Arrow! (among other things)
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We have a great time talking to Matt Topol from Voltron Data on one of his Apache Software Foundation projects called Apache Arrow. It's both a spec and implementation of a columnar data format that is not only efficient, but cross-language compatible. We walk through the scenarios that it covers and how is becoming more and more pivotal for things…
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This time we are missing the "ocks", but we hope you enjoy this off...ice topic chat about personalizing our workspaces. Also, Joe had to put a quarter in the jar, and Outlaw needs a cookie. The full show notes are available on the website at https://www.codingblocks.net/episode230 News Thank you for the review Szymon! Want to leave us a review? De…
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172: Transformers and Large Language Models
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172: Transformers and Large Language Models Intro topic: Is WFH actually WFC? News/Links: Falsehoods Junior Developers Believe about Becoming Senior https://vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/falsehoods-junior-developers-believe-about-becoming-senior/ Pure Pursuit Tutorial with python code: https://wiki.purduesigbots.com/software/control-algorithms/basic-pu…
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Multi-Value, Spatial, and Event Store Databases
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We are mixing it up on you again, no Outlaw this week, but we can offer you some talk of exotic databases. Also, Joe pronounces everything correctly and Allen leaves you with a riddle. The full show notes are available on the website at https://www.codingblocks.net/episode229 News Thanks for the reviews! ivan.kuchin (has taken the lead!), Yoondoggy…
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Overview of Object Oriented, Wide Column, and Vector Databases
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Show notes at https://www.codingblocks.net/episode228By Michael Outlaw, Allen Underwood, Joe Zack
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Intro topic: Monitor setups News/Links: BlueScuti, Willis, beats Tetris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuJ5UuknsHU PalWorld accused of being an AI Product https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2024/01/22/palworld-accused-of-using-genai-with-no-evidence-so-far/?sh=26a9651b4239 4 Billion if-statements to determine if a number is even or odd https:/…
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Picking the Right Database Type - Tougher than You Think
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For the full show notes, head to: https://www.codingblocks.net/episode227By Michael Outlaw, Allen Underwood, Joseph Zack
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There is still cool stuff on the internet
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This episode we are talking about keeping the internet interesting and making cool things by looking at PagedOut and Itch.io. Also, Allen won't ever mark you down, Outlaw won't ever give you up, and Joe took a note to say something about Barbie here but he can't remember what it was. The full show notes are available on the website at https://www.c…
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Reflecting on 2023 and Looking Forward to 2024
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For the full show notes head over to https://www.codingblocks.net/episode225By Michael Outlaw, Allen Underwood, Joseph Zack
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Predictions: Jason VR for Work Lowering AI training cost/ improved efficiency RISC-V takeoff Patrick Ai claim of AGI Ai peer reviewer Ai Video Generator More space vehicles reaching orbit Early career, finding role at FAANG, liaising vs shipping code. Startup? 3 part. 1. How and when current hype for AI will end? 2. Shape of the show 3. Upcoming in…
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Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends 2024
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This episode we are talking about the future of tech with the Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends 2024. Also, Allen is looking into the crystal ball, Joe is getting lo, and Outlaw is getting into curling. The full show notes for this episode are available at https://www.codingblocks.net/episode224. News Thank you for the reviews! justsomedudewr…
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1157 I Don't Have Time To Learn The Skills For A New Job... What Should I Do? - Simple Programmer Podcast
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1156 Advice for Developers Working in Low-Earning Countries - Simple Programmer Podcast
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1155 I'm A Developer And I'm Not Good At Design, What Should I Do? - Simple Programmer Podcast
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1154 I'm A Programmer Stuck Working For A Company I HATE, Help!!! - Simple Programmer Podcast
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1153 Web Development Visual Tools: Solid Or Cheating? - Simple Programmer Podcast
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1152 The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: MY NEW BOOK! - Simple Programmer Podcast
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1151 Working For Cheap Or Learning Technologies? - Simple Programmer Podcast
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1150 What Can You Do To Survive A Recession As A Developer?- Simple Programmer Podcast
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Intro topic: Testing your car battery News/Links: Tech Layoffs still going on https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/google-layoffs-california-companies-18465600.php Real-time dreamy Cloudscapes with Volumetric Raymarching https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/real-time-cloudscapes-with-volumetric-raymarching/ Robot Rascals https://en.wikipedia.org…
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2023 Holiday Season Developer Shopping List
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To see all the items on 2023's holiday shopping list, head over to https://www.codingblocks.net/episode223By Michael Outlaw, Allen Underwood, Joseph Zack
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1149 Dealing With Bad Managers In The Development World - Simple Programmer Podcast
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1148 My Employee Lacks Soft Skills - Simple Programmer Podcast
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1147 Are You Afraid Of Losing Your Programming Skills? - Simple Programmer Podcast
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Intro topic: What are expectations on developers that have nothing to do with programming News/Links: Pushing for a lower dev estimate is like negotiating weather with a Meteorologist https://smartguess.is/blog/your-estimate-is-less-than-that/ Announcing python in excel https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/announcing-python-in-excel-co…
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1146 Can I Hire Someone To Do The Coding For Me? - Simple Programmer Podcast
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1145 Am I Ready For A BIG Programming Project? - Simple Programmer Podcast
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News Thanks for the reviews! Debug Dugg myotherproglangisjava Daniel Kastinen The call for speakers is open till December 15th for Orlando Code Camp Sony announces a9 III: World's first full-frame global shutter camera (dpreview.com) Technology Adoption Roadmap for Midsize Enterprises 2022-2024 Gartner Report Technology Adoption Roadmap for Midsize…
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1144 Can "Normal Developers" Learn Design? - Simple Programmer Podcast
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1143 Programming Jobs: Corporate Vs. Entrepreneurial - Simple Programmer Podcast
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1142 Programming Job Interview: Do It For You! (Fuck The Employer?) - Simple Programmer Podcast
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1141 Success Story: I Became A Better Developer By Becoming A Better Person - Simple Programmer Podcast
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1140 How Pluralsight Changed My Career Pt. 3 - Simple Programmer Podcast
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1139 Best Electives To Get A Programming Job - Simple Programmer Podcast
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