Podcasts

TechChat Tuesdays #17: Dev News Grab Bag

Becca Refford | November 2, 2020

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Murder hornets, McDonald’s, markdown, and more. Ken Rimple and Becca deliver you another grab bag of dev news. Enjoy!

TechChat Tuesdays #16: UX, Developers, and Designers with Michael Geise

Becca Refford | October 22, 2020

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We do a lot of deep tech dives on this show, but today, we’re swinging it around to design! Ken hosts Michael Geise, Senior UX/Product Design Consultant here at Chariot, to cover design news, processes, patterns, and more.

TechChat Tuesdays #15: Building Mechanical Keyboards with Jack Lazorchak

Becca Refford | October 15, 2020

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Today, we highlight some passion projects with a special guest! Jack Lazorchak, a consultant here at Chariot Solutions, talks with Ken about his journey into the niche hobby of building mechanical keyboards.

TechChat Tuesdays #14: Remote Mentorship, Clojure, and more with Dan Boykis

Becca Refford | October 8, 2020

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Ken talks to Dan Boykis, a consultant here at Chariot, about mentoring others remotely, building a JVM from scratch, Clojure, and temporal databases.

TechChat Tuesdays #13: Dev News Grab Bag

Becca Refford | October 1, 2020

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You get what you get and you don’t get upset! Today, Ken and Becca bring a veritable smorgasbord of tech links to the table.

TechChat Tuesdays #12: iOS 14 Review with Don Coleman

Becca Refford | September 23, 2020September 29, 2020

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Today we welcome Don Coleman, our CIO, to talk with Ken about iOS 14: major announcements, updates, hardware, and personal takes.

TechChat Tuesdays #11: Next.js and Gatsby with Drew DeCarme

Becca Refford | September 17, 2020September 17, 2020

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Drew DeCarme and Ken deep dive on static site generation and server-side rendering, specifically using Gatsby and Next.js.

TechChat Tuesdays #10: The “Free” in Software with Martin Snyder

Becca Refford | September 9, 2020September 9, 2020

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In this episode, Ken and his guest Martin Snyder riff on dev news, and the concept of ‘free’ when it comes to software and maintaining open source projects.

TechChat Tuesdays #9: All AWS with Keith Gregory & Matt Gilbride

Becca Refford | August 26, 2020September 22, 2020

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This week Ken will talks to prior guests and frequent Chariot contributors Matt Gilbride and Keith Gregory about using the AWS CDK for configuration (as opposed to CloudFormation), and RDS database connections from Spring Boot in AWS, respectively.