Charles Max Wood explains how he landed his first 4 freelance clients that took him through a few years of freelancing with only 3 years of experience and a few hundred podcast listeners. Funnily enough, they actually came to him, not the other way around. He explains how he made himself attractive to them and then turned it into a mutually profitable relationship once he had their attention.

This is a repeat episode of Clean Coders.

Eric Crichlow is the author of the iOS Development 101 on Clean Coders. Chuck and Eric discuss the course and the process of building a course for Clean Coders. They also discuss Eric's journey from working at GM to working at a startup.

John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.

John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.

This is a repeat episode of Ruby Rogues 485

Charles Max Wood takes a solo flight into how to make an impact on the development community and build the career you want at the same time. Chuck starts out summarizing his journey over the last year or so and then dives into his vision of how people can grow into becoming an influencer and using that to create opportunities in your life and career.

Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to walk him through the 6 pillars of success that lead to meeting your goals.

Sandro Mancuso has been working on building self-managing teams within his company. The discussion goes into what parts of the work should be managed by the team and what parts should be managed for the team. He explains the tradeoffs of independence and control at different levels. He also explains several of the things that have worked as they've implemented these principles.

Chris Powers is the Director of Engineering at Thinkful. He's been spending a bit of time lately thinking about the costs of decisions as software projects evolve and grow. In other words as an application evolves from a small, niche application to a widely used, multi-tenant application.

Mani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time. He has read hundreds of books that have taught him the secrets to getting more done by getting into this state.

Test Driven Development is the practice of writing your tests to explore how your code should be structured and to verify its functionality. Bob and Chuck explore the various thoughts around how to write tests, what to test, and how testing will save you time and effort in the long run. Then, they dive into how writing tests first through Test Driven Development (TDD).

Human language is imprecise. Computer logic requires precision that is not provided by human language. What this means is that as humans work to program computers, they need to work to bring the way they describe the problems and solutions we’re responsible for in line with the way we think about building programs and organizing them into patterns we can describe.

In this episode of Clean Coders, Chris Powers, author of Clean Code in the Browser for Clean Coders and VP of engineering for Thinkful, joins Chuck. They discuss how the solid principles of clean coding play out in an object-oriented language like JavaScript and the shift in the identity of a frontend developer in the past 15 years.

In this episode of Clean Coders, guest Micah Martin and Chuck discuss how he’s working to refactor the codebase into “clean code” and how he’s worked with apprentices in the past to teach them to write and refactor to clean code.

In this episode of Clean Coders, guest Daniel Markham walks through several strategies and answers questions Chuck poses about how to make sure that your code communicates and functions in ways that keeps the code maintainable. Daniel is writing a book about coding practices.

Robert C. Martin has been a coder since 1970, co-founder of cleancoders.com, founder of Uncle Bob Consulting LLC, Master Craftsman at 8th Light Inc, and author of the book Clean Agile. Uncle Bob and Chuck start by discussing whether or not there has been a decline in Agile in recent years.

Eric rejoins the show to talk about the things that the iOS development community is debating. The first thing brought up is a tweet by Ben Sandofsky around being concise versus being readable. Stay tuned to see Eric’s thoughts on the other debates happening in the iOS development community.

James Grenning is an expert in embedded systems. He's been working in software for over 40 years. His series on Clean Coders is focused on IoT. James walks Chuck and the audience through the growth of embedded systems and its evolution into IoT. He also walks through the challenges and techniques involved in building code that runs on specific devices.

Michael Whatcott is a Go developer at Smarty Streets and co-hosts the Go with Intensity series at Clean Coders. Michael walks Chuck and the audience through the ins and outs of getting started with the Go programming language, how to think about writing programs with the language. Michael and Chuck also talk about the Go community and ecosystem.

Robert C. "Uncle Bob" Martin and Charles Max Wood dive into the intricacies of the last 5 points of the Programmer's Oath. They discuss how programmers have the responsibility to continue to improve their programs, their teams, their teams' practices, and continue to learn.

Sandro Mancuso runs a company that updates projects to use modern tools, techniques, and libraries. Since many companies have systems that have evolved through various programmers, techniques, and frameworks. Sometimes they continue to be used by the company, but lack support, don't perform as needed, or are hard to add features to. He walks Chuck through the process he uses to upgrade older applications.

Chris Powers joins the Clean Coders podcast again to talk about how to be ready to seize opportunities and handle trials. Life has given us a huge pile of uncertainty lately. Chris and Chuck discuss how to create some certainty and how to grow during times like this.

Eric rejoins the show to talk about the things that the iOS development community is debating. The first thing brought up is a tweet by Ben Sandofsky around being concise versus being readable. Stay tuned to see Eric's thoughts on the other debates happening in the iOS development community.

Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin rejoins the podcast to discuss the Programmer's Oath. Bob wrote the Programmer's Oath in 2015. The conversation covers the first 4 points of the Programmer's Oath and the ethics involved in writing software that builds and runs our world.