Code Complete

Code Complete #8: Comic Foils and Easter Eggs

Kyle Shank — 2011-04-07T00:00:00-04:00

Matt Kent joins me again as my comic foil to discuss:

REACT
Our new endeavor
Farming vs. Mining in Software
My first production Asterisk deployment
Special Easter Egg topic

and other banter.

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Code Complete #7: Ideers with Matt Kent

Kyle Shank — 2011-03-09T00:00:00-05:00

?Matt and I discuss many things on the longest episode ever:

REACT (update on progress)
IDEER
Asterisk
HTML5 v iOS
IMDB for Nerds
Dungeons and Dragons
Insane moviegoing children
Coffee makers

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Code Complete #6: Game Design and Development with Justin

Kyle Shank — 2011-03-02T00:00:00-05:00

In this episode I talk to Justin, an old college friend, who recently moved back to Rochester to pursue a graduate degree in Game Design and Development.

We talk games, game programming, game paradigms and all sundry topics relating to gaming. I reveal my gaming habits and we both recount our console history.

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Code Complete #5: Requirements, IDEs and Web Frameworks with Matt Kent

Kyle Shank — 2011-02-23T00:00:00-05:00

Matt Kent joins me again to talk about:

REACT and its open sourcing
The cost of late changing requirements
IDEs (we use RubyMine now)
Web Frameworks and where we go from here

Also: if you like Liam Neeson see Unknown for his standard fare. Don't see Gnomeo and Juliet on principle.

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Code Complete #4: REACT with Matt Kent

Kyle Shank — 2011-02-16T00:00:00-05:00

Matt Kent is a partner at Reactualize. We built RadRails together, founded a startup and graduated from RIT with degrees in Software Engineering.

In this episode we discuss the forthcoming REACT application we've been working on, donateyouraccount.com, search, startups, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and skiing.

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Code Complete #3: Luigi Montanez on Open Gov't and Open Source

Kyle Shank — 2011-01-19T00:00:00-05:00

Luigi Montanez is an open source developer at the Sunlight Foundation. For the past two years he has focused on opening up government data and making it readily available for developers.

We talk about open government, open source, software philosophy, HTML 5 and thinking beyond Ruby on Rails.

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Code Complete #2: JRuby with Charles Nutter

Kyle Shank — 2009-08-22T00:00:00-04:00

We discuss the origins of JRuby, JRuby on Android/AppEngine and how to run your Ruby/Rails project on Java with JRuby.

Charles is one of the lead developers of JRuby and now is hacking away at Engine Yard.

The intro and outro music of this podcast is from an internet archive backup of Why the Lucky Stiff’s performance at the very first RailsConf from June 2006.

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Follow Kyle on Twitter and Tumblr.

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Code Complete #1: iPhone Development with Marco Arment

Kyle Shank — 2009-07-23T00:00:00-04:00

We discuss the world of iPhone development from how we both abuse UIWebView to the App Store.