SEP Radio: Fed up with the "cloud"!

Cloud computing is popular, but it's no panacea. Listen to our expert guests discuss the pitfalls of cloud computing, which applications just won't work well in virtualized environments, and how it takes planning from the ground-up to reach success.

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SEP Radio: Living in a 64-bit world: making apps work with 64-bit OSes

Windows developers Anna-Jayne Metcalfe, Inbar Gazit & Sushil Sapre talk about their experiences with developing software for 64-bit OSes. In a world where 64-bit OSes have become standard our guests Anna-Jayne Metcalfe, Inbar Gazit & Sushil Sapre talk about their experiences with developing software that not only runs well in this increasingly common environment, but can take advantage of it as well. Tune in for advice on the issues to consider for making your apps compatible with 64-bit OSes, and hands-on advice in making the transition.

Be sure to check out:

Inbar Gazit’s Linked.NET user group
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe’s blog
Sushil Sapre’s engineering company, Xoriant

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This Week on Bear radio: Greedy civil servants

In this episode the Optimistic Bear rants about how the public sector employees are now paid MORE than private sector counterparts and that there is no way to save the unfunded civil service pensions.

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This Week on Bear radio: 1987 déjà vu and the bubble in Treasuries

In this episode we discuss how markets are following an eerily similar path to 1987. In addition, we talk about whether the rally in treasuries is going to crack as well as the growth in the barter economy and private currencies like Bitcoin.

You can check out more about the new private currency, Bitcoin, here:
http://www.bitcoin.org/

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SEP Radio: RIP: The death of .NET?

Software engineering experts Grant BlahaErath and Richard Minerich join me to share their thoughts on the state of the .NET development platform today and where it is headed. Do the added costs of licensing proprietary technology still make sense in a world with increasingly mature open source internet platforms?

You can check out Grant's latest venture here:
http://fizzik.com/

You can also take a look at Richard's blog:
http://richardminerich.com/

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This Week on Bear radio: Neither bull nor bear, just trading the trend

In this episode Steve tells how his strategy of trading trends allows him to make money in both bull and bear markets. The trick is to have the discipline to stay with a system. Stop listening to the pundits, just follow the trend and adhere to a system.

You can check out Steve's trading ideas here:
http://brooklynborntraders.com/

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PS: Thinking small as the path to software engineering

In this episode, Michael Vax shares his strategy of keeping his software under continual use in a production environment to keep a agile engineering environment. It takes a re-thinking of software development, but by doing work in a series of very short, modular, sprints it is possible to improve quality and get direct customer feedback to avoid wasted effort building the wrong thing.

You can check out Michael's blog on efficient software development here: http://www.getelastic.com/

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PS: The language matters

In this episode, Richard Minerich tells why the language developers use can have a huge impact on their productivity. New high level languages, like F# (one of Richard's favourite languages), free engineers from much of the traditional drudgery leading to faster development cycles and better quality.

You can read more of Richard's ideas here: http://www.atalasoft.com/cs/blogs/RickM/

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PS: Software engineering productivity: more than just a measurement

In this episode, Timothy Fong explains how measuring software engineering productivity is not just a matter of counting lines of code. What good is it to release a bloated piece of software on schedule that is never used? Before you can even talk about productivity you have to first define your business goals.

You can write timothy at tim.fong@opshub.com to ask for a white paper on 3 principals to using metrics for large scale agile.

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This Week on Bear radio: Kit Kitredge shows the way with deflationary frugality

In this episode we discuss how changing consumer preferences, and product substitution play a key role in the deflationary process. Already we see people downsizing their expectations, taking in boarders to their homes, and switching to lower priced substitutes for all kinds of things. It’s starting to look at lot like the Kit Kitredge movie, set in the 1930s. We also talk about how surprising it is to see how long the process of de-leveraging and mal-investment purge is taking.

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