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Code[ish]

A podcast brought to you by the developer advocate team at Heroku, exploring code, technology, tools, tips, and the life of the developer.

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Code[ish] • April 4th, 2019

4. Delivering Amazing Presentations

Hosted by Jonan Scheffler, Nickolas Means

For many developers, public speaking can be an intimidating endeavor. Whatever your experience level, it can be difficult coming up with a topic, formatting your slides, or even identifying which conference to deliver your talk.

Whether it's on a technical or non-technical topic, there are tired and true techniques you can use to make sure your talk is an amazing one. We'll go over some of those strategies, starting from the beginning: how to find a conference to present at, what conference organizers are looking for in a CFP, and how to maintain your audience's interest.

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Code[ish] • April 2nd, 2019

3. Spreading the Database Love

Hosted by Jonan Scheffler, Brendon Murphy

Spring has come, and chocolate bunnies aren't the only delights worth cracking open. Your database is filled with all sorts of data that's useful to your organization and your customers. But what's the best way to get insight into that information? You could connect directly to production and run queries, but one wrong command and your database could lock up, or worse, result in data loss. And what if non-engineering teams want to run their own analytics, or if external customers are asking for results pertaining to their subscribers?

There are ways to lower the barriers of access to your database. Rather than write one-off queries for your Sales or Marketing teams--likely requiring test suites and redeploys--you can construct safer SQL queries through a web UI. That data can also be shared through an API, so you can hook it up to a Slack bot, or even generate a unique password-protected URL, to share with people outside your company.

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Code[ish] • March 28th, 2019

2. Ruby, Regexes and Risk: Aaron Patterson Explains Why Hiring Open Source Developers Will Make Your Company Stronger

Hosted by Jonan Scheffler and Aaron Patterson

Open source developers are often taken for granted. They spend their nights and weekends toiling away, often in obscurity, to bring developers and their companies the tools and frameworks they've come to depend on. Smart companies are beginning to realize that these critical pieces of infrastructure are too important to trust to an effectively volunteer staff; they want ready access to the developers of their tooling and their skills.

In recent years it has become increasingly common for companies to bring strategic open source developers on full-time. The developers are ideally afforded the opportunity to maintain the pace of their work on their open source projects, but they're also around to lend support and mentorship, and to assist with complex technical problems related to their area of expertise.

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Code[ish] • March 28th, 2019

1. Running Grails in Production

Hosted by Chris Castle and Joe Kutner

Simple tech stacks don't get enough love. Andrew Garcia talks to us about Goodshuffle and the advantages of building on top of Grails, JDK8, and a trustworthy tech stack.