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  <title>404: Not Found</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Mike reveals his secret project to Chris, who has several probing questions.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>Mike reveals his secret project to Chris, who has several probing questions. 
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    <![CDATA[<p>Mike reveals his secret project to Chris, who has several probing questions.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://acloudguru.com">A Cloud Guru</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://acloudguru.com">A Cloud Guru now includes Cloud Playground. Azure, AWS, or GCP Sandboxes at your fingertips.</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://datadog.com/coderradio">Datadog</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://datadog.com/coderradio">Try Datadog free by starting a your 14-day trial and receive a free t-shirt once you install the agent.</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://linode.com/coder">Linode</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://linode.com/coder">Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. </a> Promo Code: linode.com/coder</li></ul><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Michael Dominick on Twitter" rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/dominucco/status/1368921734708158465">Michael Dominick on Twitter</a> &mdash; Mesa announcing something new tonight and someone we all know and love who has great hair is going disapprove of the architecture! </li><li><a title="CoderBytes" rel="nofollow" href="https://coderbytes.herokuapp.com/">CoderBytes</a> &mdash; New super secret project landing page.</li><li><a title="Open Bug Bounty" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.openbugbounty.org/">Open Bug Bounty</a> &mdash; Free Bug Bounty Program and Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure.</li><li><a title="Michael Dominick on Twitter" rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/dominucco/status/1368920303242477588">Michael Dominick on Twitter</a> &mdash; I’m submitting a talk entitled “OpenSUSE Evangelism and The @ChrisLAS Challenge”  😈</li><li><a title="ReSharper" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/">ReSharper</a> &mdash; The Visual Studio Extension for .NET Developers</li><li><a title="dotUltimate" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jetbrains.com/dotnet/">dotUltimate</a> &mdash; All .NET tools, ReSharper C++,
and JetBrains Rider, together in one pack </li><li><a title="Michael Dominick on Twitter" rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/dominucco/status/1368613894164516868">Michael Dominick on Twitter</a> &mdash; Damn.... working in #CSharp is just a pleasure.... #Tempation. Does anyone know a lot about how @dotnet #Linux binaries compare in comparison to #cpp ones? I am reconsidering some of my choices here....</li><li><a title="The iMac Pro has been discontinued" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/the-imac-pro-has-been-discontinued/">The iMac Pro has been discontinued</a> &mdash; Apple confirms the meaning behind "while supplies last" note in online store.</li><li><a title="Apple discontinues the iMac Pro" rel="nofollow" href="https://sixcolors.com/post/2021/03/goodbye-parallel-timeline-apple-discontinues-the-imac-pro/">Apple discontinues the iMac Pro</a> &mdash; More notably, the iMac Pro is a product from a different time, and represents a path Apple ultimately chose not to take with the Mac. When Apple announced in April 2017 it would make a new Mac Pro and was recommitting to its core pro customers, the iMac Pro was about to be announced. When it shipped that December, it felt very much like an interim step, a computer that was built as the replacement for the Mac Pro, only to have the Mac Pro survive after all. </li><li><a title="MWC Barcelona Conference Planning for 50,000 In-Person" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.macrumors.com/2021/03/08/mwc-barcelona-in-person/">MWC Barcelona Conference Planning for 50,000 In-Person</a> &mdash; As reported by Bloomberg, GSMA, the organizer of MWC Barcelona, says that it plans to hold the conference in-person between June 28 and July 1, with expectations of up to 50,000 attendees.</li></ul>]]>
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  <title>329: OpenJDK or Death</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2018 11:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Azure Sphere dev kits are shipping, and we take a look at the practicalities of getting setup to start developing.</itunes:subtitle>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Azure Sphere dev kits are shipping, and we take a look at the practicalities of getting setup to start developing.</p>

<p>Then we clear some recent Java FUD, read some feedback, and share a few stories.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Regarding Michael&#39;s MacBook Pro mishap" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CoderRadio/comments/9kk76y/smoked_laptops_coder_radio_327/e70von0/">Regarding Michael's MacBook Pro mishap</a></li><li><a title="Text Contrast for Dark Themes" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CoderRadio/comments/9kk76y/smoked_laptops_coder_radio_327/e73121z/">Text Contrast for Dark Themes</a></li><li><a title="Developing an Azure Sphere experience with Visual Studio" rel="nofollow" href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/developing-an-azure-sphere-experience-with-visual-studio/">Developing an Azure Sphere experience with Visual Studio</a> &mdash; You will write your application logic in C, using APIs that are provided by the Azure Sphere SDK, this is compiled into your application binary using GCC. As part of the build process, tools that are part of the Azure Sphere SDK are used to generate a signed .imagepackage file that will be deployed to your development board, or through the Azure Sphere security service for Over The Air.</li><li><a title="Michael Dominick on Twitter: &quot;Does anyone have an #AzureSpheres devkit in hand yet?&quot;" rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/dominucco/status/1049134150542938113">Michael Dominick on Twitter: "Does anyone have an #AzureSpheres devkit in hand yet?"</a> &mdash; I’m thinking of evaluating it for a project but am trying to get a sense of what the actual developer experience is like and how dependent it is on a connection to @Azure #dotnet</li><li><a title="Azure Sphere MT3620 Development Board" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.seeedstudio.com/MT3620-Development-Board-for-Azure-Sphere-p-3052.html">Azure Sphere MT3620 Development Board</a> &mdash; Azure Sphere MT3620 Development Kit_US Version</li><li><a title="Michael Dominick on Twitter: &quot;Ok, let me dispel some #Java FUD here.&quot;" rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/dominucco/status/1048390938404540416">Michael Dominick on Twitter: "Ok, let me dispel some #Java FUD here."</a> &mdash; You CAN use #Java11 for free. Just use the @OpenJDK and you're golden. #Programming #FOSS #CoderRadio @ChrisLAS Spread the word -&gt; there's a lot of confusion on this one thanks to Oracle's strange communications on it.</li><li><a title="Oracle releases open source and commercial licenses for Java 11 and later" rel="nofollow" href="https://hub.packtpub.com/oracle-releases-open-source-and-commercial-licenses-for-java-11-and-later/">Oracle releases open source and commercial licenses for Java 11 and later</a></li><li><a title="Project Strobe" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strobe/">Project Strobe</a> &mdash; The consumer version of Google+ currently has low usage and engagement: 90 percent of Google+ user sessions are less than five seconds.</li><li><a title="Microsoft open-sources Infer.NET AI code just in time for the weekend" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/05/imicrosoft_nfernet/">Microsoft open-sources Infer.NET AI code just in time for the weekend</a> &mdash; Infer.NET, which is on GitHub right now, takes a model-based approach to machine learning. The developer gives the framework a model, and the framework then develops a machine-learning algorithm directly from the model provided.</li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Azure Sphere dev kits are shipping, and we take a look at the practicalities of getting setup to start developing.</p>

<p>Then we clear some recent Java FUD, read some feedback, and share a few stories.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Regarding Michael&#39;s MacBook Pro mishap" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CoderRadio/comments/9kk76y/smoked_laptops_coder_radio_327/e70von0/">Regarding Michael's MacBook Pro mishap</a></li><li><a title="Text Contrast for Dark Themes" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CoderRadio/comments/9kk76y/smoked_laptops_coder_radio_327/e73121z/">Text Contrast for Dark Themes</a></li><li><a title="Developing an Azure Sphere experience with Visual Studio" rel="nofollow" href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/developing-an-azure-sphere-experience-with-visual-studio/">Developing an Azure Sphere experience with Visual Studio</a> &mdash; You will write your application logic in C, using APIs that are provided by the Azure Sphere SDK, this is compiled into your application binary using GCC. As part of the build process, tools that are part of the Azure Sphere SDK are used to generate a signed .imagepackage file that will be deployed to your development board, or through the Azure Sphere security service for Over The Air.</li><li><a title="Michael Dominick on Twitter: &quot;Does anyone have an #AzureSpheres devkit in hand yet?&quot;" rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/dominucco/status/1049134150542938113">Michael Dominick on Twitter: "Does anyone have an #AzureSpheres devkit in hand yet?"</a> &mdash; I’m thinking of evaluating it for a project but am trying to get a sense of what the actual developer experience is like and how dependent it is on a connection to @Azure #dotnet</li><li><a title="Azure Sphere MT3620 Development Board" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.seeedstudio.com/MT3620-Development-Board-for-Azure-Sphere-p-3052.html">Azure Sphere MT3620 Development Board</a> &mdash; Azure Sphere MT3620 Development Kit_US Version</li><li><a title="Michael Dominick on Twitter: &quot;Ok, let me dispel some #Java FUD here.&quot;" rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/dominucco/status/1048390938404540416">Michael Dominick on Twitter: "Ok, let me dispel some #Java FUD here."</a> &mdash; You CAN use #Java11 for free. Just use the @OpenJDK and you're golden. #Programming #FOSS #CoderRadio @ChrisLAS Spread the word -&gt; there's a lot of confusion on this one thanks to Oracle's strange communications on it.</li><li><a title="Oracle releases open source and commercial licenses for Java 11 and later" rel="nofollow" href="https://hub.packtpub.com/oracle-releases-open-source-and-commercial-licenses-for-java-11-and-later/">Oracle releases open source and commercial licenses for Java 11 and later</a></li><li><a title="Project Strobe" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strobe/">Project Strobe</a> &mdash; The consumer version of Google+ currently has low usage and engagement: 90 percent of Google+ user sessions are less than five seconds.</li><li><a title="Microsoft open-sources Infer.NET AI code just in time for the weekend" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/05/imicrosoft_nfernet/">Microsoft open-sources Infer.NET AI code just in time for the weekend</a> &mdash; Infer.NET, which is on GitHub right now, takes a model-based approach to machine learning. The developer gives the framework a model, and the framework then develops a machine-learning algorithm directly from the model provided.</li></ul>]]>
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  <title>328: In Testing We Trust</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2018 14:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
  <author>The Mad Botter</author>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Mike makes his case for realism when it comes to automated testing, and a readjustment of expectations in the wider community. </itunes:subtitle>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Mike makes his case for realism when it comes to automated testing, and a readjustment of expectations in the wider community. </p>

<p>Plus the guys define what makes a “Dark Matter Developer”, and gauk at the possibility of this young hip upstart’s automated build pipeline, and share memories of large scale QA testing teams.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Mike: I&#39;m Seeing Something Strange..." rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/dominucco/status/1047287488732123136">Mike: I'm Seeing Something Strange...</a></li><li><a title="MacinCloud" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.macincloud.com/">MacinCloud</a> &mdash; This is the cloud-based Mac solution you are looking for! Access on-demand Mac servers for app development, Mac tasks, and enterprise builds.</li><li><a title="iOS Code Signing in App Cente" rel="nofollow" href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/appcenter/build/ios/code-signing">iOS Code Signing in App Cente</a> &mdash; An app must be signed to run on a real device during the development process, through a beta program or in the App Store. </li><li><a title="The Day the QA Department Died" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.infoq.com/articles/day-qa-dept-died">The Day the QA Department Died</a> &mdash; Let’s take a step back and examine how things used to work.</li><li><a title="Who needs a separate QA Team?" rel="nofollow" href="https://blogs.agilefaqs.com/2009/01/14/who-needs-a-separate-qa-team/">Who needs a separate QA Team?</a> &mdash; Have you come across developers who think that having a separate Quality Assurance (QA) team, who could test (manually or auto-magically) their code/software at the end of an iteration/release, will really help them? Personally I think this style of software development is not just dangerous but also harmful to the developers’ growth.</li><li><a title="Why your QA testers quit—and what to do about it" rel="nofollow" href="https://techbeacon.com/why-your-qa-testers-quit%E2%80%94-what-do-about-it">Why your QA testers quit—and what to do about it</a> &mdash; After years of hearing tragic tales of continuous tester turnover, I started to wonder if testing is just a temporary, transitional role for many people.</li><li><a title="Alexa is the future of Amazon’s consumer business" rel="nofollow" href="https://qz.com/1398622/alexa-is-the-future-of-amazons-consumer-business/">Alexa is the future of Amazon’s consumer business</a> &mdash; Here’s a quick rundown of the Alexa-enabled products Amazon announced: A wall clock, microwave, subwoofer, an Alexa for the car, a DVR for your TV antenna, a smart plug, and a microphone that turns your existing hi-fi setup into an Alexa-powered audio rig. Oh, and updates to the Echo Dot, Echo Plus, and Echo Show.</li><li><a title="Big Mouth Billy Bass will soon work with Amazon Alexa - The Verge" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/27/16375650/big-mouth-billy-bass-alexa-amazon">Big Mouth Billy Bass will soon work with Amazon Alexa - The Verge</a> &mdash; Amazon says an updated Billy is coming later this year.</li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Mike makes his case for realism when it comes to automated testing, and a readjustment of expectations in the wider community. </p>

<p>Plus the guys define what makes a “Dark Matter Developer”, and gauk at the possibility of this young hip upstart’s automated build pipeline, and share memories of large scale QA testing teams.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Mike: I&#39;m Seeing Something Strange..." rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/dominucco/status/1047287488732123136">Mike: I'm Seeing Something Strange...</a></li><li><a title="MacinCloud" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.macincloud.com/">MacinCloud</a> &mdash; This is the cloud-based Mac solution you are looking for! Access on-demand Mac servers for app development, Mac tasks, and enterprise builds.</li><li><a title="iOS Code Signing in App Cente" rel="nofollow" href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/appcenter/build/ios/code-signing">iOS Code Signing in App Cente</a> &mdash; An app must be signed to run on a real device during the development process, through a beta program or in the App Store. </li><li><a title="The Day the QA Department Died" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.infoq.com/articles/day-qa-dept-died">The Day the QA Department Died</a> &mdash; Let’s take a step back and examine how things used to work.</li><li><a title="Who needs a separate QA Team?" rel="nofollow" href="https://blogs.agilefaqs.com/2009/01/14/who-needs-a-separate-qa-team/">Who needs a separate QA Team?</a> &mdash; Have you come across developers who think that having a separate Quality Assurance (QA) team, who could test (manually or auto-magically) their code/software at the end of an iteration/release, will really help them? Personally I think this style of software development is not just dangerous but also harmful to the developers’ growth.</li><li><a title="Why your QA testers quit—and what to do about it" rel="nofollow" href="https://techbeacon.com/why-your-qa-testers-quit%E2%80%94-what-do-about-it">Why your QA testers quit—and what to do about it</a> &mdash; After years of hearing tragic tales of continuous tester turnover, I started to wonder if testing is just a temporary, transitional role for many people.</li><li><a title="Alexa is the future of Amazon’s consumer business" rel="nofollow" href="https://qz.com/1398622/alexa-is-the-future-of-amazons-consumer-business/">Alexa is the future of Amazon’s consumer business</a> &mdash; Here’s a quick rundown of the Alexa-enabled products Amazon announced: A wall clock, microwave, subwoofer, an Alexa for the car, a DVR for your TV antenna, a smart plug, and a microphone that turns your existing hi-fi setup into an Alexa-powered audio rig. Oh, and updates to the Echo Dot, Echo Plus, and Echo Show.</li><li><a title="Big Mouth Billy Bass will soon work with Amazon Alexa - The Verge" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/27/16375650/big-mouth-billy-bass-alexa-amazon">Big Mouth Billy Bass will soon work with Amazon Alexa - The Verge</a> &mdash; Amazon says an updated Billy is coming later this year.</li></ul>]]>
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