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Developers love QA right? ...right? Anthony Keenan joins Chris and Josey to look at what QA is, isn't, who should be doing it and who shouldn't. At no point do we have disagreements about this topic…

Chris and Pat are joined by Mark Walsh, a start-up focussed lead developer to talk about tech debt and how to handle it.

TOPICS

• What is tech debt?
• Why is it called “debt”?
• When is tech debt accept…

Chris and Pat are joined by Josh Thorman, a student with a keen interest in server virtualization.

TOPICS

• What is virtualization?
• Why is it useful?
• * Cost saving
• * Resource management
• * Monitoring
…

Paul Verbeek-Mast joins the DNI team as we dig in to developer communities and events, their impact, how they have changed over the years, and how to get involved.

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• What goes into organising…

Patryk's back and boy does he have some opinions on BIG vs small companies, especially in the game development industry! 4

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• Job Stability
• Game Development
• Teams
• Development speed and more!

I want to be BIG! Chris and Josey, with the text based Patryk, dig into the difference found in working for large and small companies!

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• The Differences (processes, policies)
• The Similarities…

We've all seen it, the US vs THEM mentality. Be it bean-counters, juniors, sysadmins, developers, and others. Dan Howarth joins us this episode to discuss who US and THEM are, is separation bad, the…

The mysterious infrastructure admin "Gareth" appears to discuss the challenges of working in a 24/7 profession.

TOPICS

• The Evolution to the IT Job
• The 24/7 Cycle
• On Call (good, bad, other)

MUSI…

Chris & Josey are joined by Gordon Johnston from Lineup Ninja to talk about Postgres, GraphQL, Firebase, and the world of data storage. Interspersed with the tech talk, are moments of developers rant…

Chris and Josey discuss the good and bad sides of being an indispensable IT worker, be it developer, devops, sysadmin, or other, and whether or not it is by choice or by circumstance.

TOPICS

• The …

Thornton Phillis joins us to discuss Docker, Containerisation, and more.

TOPICS

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Docker Swarm
• Docker File

LINKS

• https://www.docker.com/
• https://hub.docker.com/

MUSIC FROM TH…

Anthony Keenan joins us to discuss (rant about) the developer interview process.

TOPICS

• Practical / Technical / Art Tests
• Pair Programming Interview
• Difference between the Freelance and Permanant …

The team start the year discussing security in the IT world and development and the impact they have on each other.

TOPICS

• Have you ever been apart of the response team for a compromise?
• Sharing …

Gareth “Gazimoff” Harmer joins the team to talk about interchangeable lessons for enterprise and game development.

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• What game development can learn from enterprise dev and vice versa
• Scope /…

Hamid Shojaee joins the DNI team to discuss taking an SaaS idea and turning it into a profitable idea.

TOPICS

• Measuring the value of an idea
• Use investors, Go Alone?
• Does it matter if my idea is b…

With Josey off sick, Chris and Patryk explore the good, bad, and ugly about Virtual Reality.

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• Current Applications for VR
• What's holding VR back
• Fears and Issues with VR

MUSIC FROM THE CCM…

Bradley McAvoy-James joins us to discuss lessons learned from Fallout 76 and more...

TOPICS

• Fallout 76
• Dev Crunch
• Game Dev Horror Stories
• RTFMs

LINKS
Our host Patryk's game on steam: https://sto…

Weird Dev Stories from our hosts, listeners, and other devs we know!

TOPICS
Stories told (in no particular order)

• The Hacked Mouse
• FIMAS Catastrophe
• The Hashing Condundrum
• The Story of Vanishing L…

Anthony Nardozza joins us to look at how to disseminate player feedback vs player data.

TOPICS

• The difference between player feedback and player data
• Analytics
• Surveys
• What you should pay attentio…

Anthony Keenan joins to turn back time and discuss old school programming, burnout, and trains.

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• Programming before the internet
• Different ways of learning programming and coding
• Burnout cau…