Clean Coders Podcast

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Charles Max Wood

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Mar 02, 2021

BONUS: How to get Freelance Clients to Come to You

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.

Feb 17, 2021

CC 010: The Programmer’s Oath with Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin

This is a repeat episode of Clean Coders.

Feb 09, 2021

CC 028: Building Courses and Changing Jobs with Eric Crichlow

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.

Feb 05, 2021

BONUS: Measuring Apps and Entrepreneurship with John-Daniel Trask

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.

Feb 05, 2021

BONUS: Measuring Apps and Entrepreneurship with John-Daniel Trask

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.

Feb 02, 2021

CC 027: What is a Top 5% Developer?

This is a repeat episode of Ruby Rogues 485

Jan 26, 2021

CC 026: How to Make an Impact on the Development Community

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.

Jan 01, 2021

BONUS: How to Crush Your Biggest Goals in 2021

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

Hosts:
Charles Max Wood

Guests:
Mani Vaya
Dec 08, 2020

CC 025: Self Managing Teams with Sandro Mancuso

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.

Dec 01, 2020

CC 024: The Costs of Software of the Lifecycle of a Project with Chris Powers

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.

Nov 27, 2020

BONUS: How to do LARGE Volumes of HIGH Quality Work - While Spending Fewer Hours Working

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.

Hosts:
Charles Max Wood

Guests:
Mani Vaya
Nov 24, 2020

CC 023: How to start with Test Driven Development (TDD) with Robert C. "Uncle Bob" Martin

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).

Nov 10, 2020

CC 022: The Gap Between Human Language and Computer Logic with Daniel B Markham

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.

Oct 27, 2020

CC 021: Principles of Clean Coding with Chris Powers

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.

Oct 20, 2020

CC 020: How to Write and Refactor to Clean Code with Micah Martin

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.

Oct 13, 2020

CC 019: Agile Formula for Success with Daniel Markham

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.

Sep 29, 2020

CC 018: Clean Architecture with Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin

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.

Sep 22, 2020

CC 017: Mobile Development with Eric Crichlow

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.

Aug 11, 2020

CC 016: Embedded Systems and IoT with James Grenning

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.

Jul 28, 2020

CC 015: Getting Started with Go with Michael Whatcott

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.

Jul 14, 2020

CC 014: The Programmer's Oath - Part 2 - with Robert C. "Uncle Bob" Martin

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.

Jun 30, 2020

CC 013: Software Modernization Programs with Sandro Mancuso

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.

Jun 16, 2020

CC 012: The Practice of Preparedness with Chris Powers

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.

Jun 02, 2020

CC 011: The Open Debates from the iOS Development Community with Eric Crichlow

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.

May 19, 2020

CC 010: The Programmer's Oath with Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin

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.