The Vancouver Tech Podcast is a weekly show focusing on the growing tech industry in the city of Vancouver. Get caught up on the events and meetups around town, startups, new businesses, developers, designers, community programs, and news. Each episode includes an interview with an outstanding member of our community.
Drew and James open with some news about the future of the show. Be sure to listen up! There is also a chat about online learning resources. We also cover a little be of the S.O.L.I.D principles. Ou…
This week we have a full intro. No audio problems this time. The show starts with a short discussion on D.R.Y (don't repeat yourself) and a debate on 0-tech and what it means. We have 2 guests this …
Drew and James jump right into things because Audacity crashed during the first part of the show! That's ok, though; we still have the meetups and our special guest: Sam Sullivan from PNI Digital.
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Drew and James open the show with a quick chat about community as well as the results of the Vancouver Programming Survey. The guest this week is an anonymous guest from düber!
düber is a system for…
Drew and James open the show with a chat about keyboards and injuries from typing or sitting too long. The guest this week is Ilya Brotzky the Co-Founder & CEO of VanHack. He is phoning in from Sant…
Drew and James open the show talking about managing projects and running QA. They jump to some anecdotal learnings about teaching development to students and also talk a little about the "Contract A…
Drew and James open the show with a quick chat about what a startup is. They also catch up on Drew's domain problems. There are 2 guests this week, Peter Wittig from Motive.io and Justin Vaillancour…
Drew and James open the show with a quick chat about the most popular programming language and whether that measurement is valid. The guest this week is Evgueni (or Ev for short) Naverniouk from Cum…
Drew and James open the show with a discussion on domain issues. The interview this episode is with Matthew Corstorphine and Alex Silva from Aequilibrium. The interview starts at 0:29:10.
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Drew and James open the show quickly with a brief chat but then jump right into meetups. The guest this week is Adam Dymitruk, the Founder and CTO of Adaptech Solutions, organizer of the Git Help an…
Drew and James open the show reflecting on the last episode that Drew did solo. They also chat about summer and the past couple weeks of meetups. This week's guest is Stacey Mulcahy, the Senior Prog…
Drew talks about the upcoming week of meetups and events in the Vancouver technology scene.
Our special guest this week is Matias Marquez, COO and Founder of Buyatab. We speak about what EGC means t…
Drew and James open the show with a quick chat about staying focused and working on side projects. There is also some discussion about Pokemon Go, and programmers who started as game developers. The…
Drew and James open the show with an excellent lesson on how to say Drews last name. They then discuss some of the tools around server provisioning and a new web server called Caddy. The guest this …
Drew and James open the show with a discussion about "beer o'clock", and whether that is inclusive, exclusive, and how to fix it. The guest this week is Jesse Calderon from Tableau Software. The int…
Drew and James open the show with a chat about some DevOps tools. As well as some shortcuts to spinning up new servers. The guest this week is Chris Richardson, a Software Development Manager at Ama…
Drew and James open the show with a plug for a cool job, a short discussion on a recent company acquisition, and some reflection on an extraordinary event that they went to on Friday. This weeks gue…
Drew and James open the show with some breaking news. Then jump pretty quickly into the meetups around town. Drew gives a quick review of the Warcraft movie. The guest for this episode is Peter Thom…
Drew and James jump pretty quickly into meetups since there is so much to get to this week! They do talk a little about company culture for hiring and things like transparent salaries. The guest thi…
This week is light on events but heavy on discussions. Drew and James open the show with a chat about missing client information, some new tools they are using, and another cool job to plug. This is…