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Ken and I talk about how we approach learning in today fast paced tech industry. Reading isn’t enough, do. Watch it, read it, but for sure code it. Learn that why!   Ken has been developing software for over 20 years. In that time, I have worked on a large varienty of systems: embedded avionic systems, Windows desktop applications, large Oracle based ERP systems running on Unix/Linux, .NET back-end services, and front end web and hybrid mobile applications. I also developed a couple of my own Linux based open source programs. One was a ticketing system used by a small city outside of Tampa. The other was a flash cards game for kids.   Ken is currently employed as the Senior Enterprise Support Engineer at Ionic, which means that I spend my time helping our enterprise customers take better advantage of the Ionic Framework as well as our other offerings to solve their problems and develop their products.   When Ken isn't working, he enjoys cooking, biking, working out, reading, helping my dad work on cars, and (

David is a family man first...an enthusiastic husband of 12 years and a proud father of three energetic boys; Lyric, Londyn and Lennyx. When I'm not spending time with the family, I thrive on all things technology. I love giving back to the developer community and knowledge sharing. I've recently become an international speaker and Microsoft MVP. When time permits you can find me sharing ideas on Twitter, blogging about various technologies and contributing to open-source projects. GitHub : https://github.com/ievangelist  Twitter : https://twitter.com/davidpine7  Stack Overflow : https://stackoverflow.com/users/2410379/david-pine  Blog : https://davidpine.net/  LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpine/  MVP Profile : https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5002736  DotNetCurry : http://www.dotnetcurry.com/author/david-pine  Medium : https://medium.com/@davidpine7 

In this episode I talk with Marisa Morby about this notion of a Smart City. You’re prolly thinking, smart grids, 5g, hyper loops and yet we talk about the physical side of the city, it’s people, and how ones physically surrounding. We all play a role in this change and shouldn’t accept today’s current standard. Marisa works as the Head of Research at Clearhead, where I specialize in digital optimization, user research, and user experience flow for web and mobile applications. I work with clients to create a more personal approach to marketing, use data to optimize businesses, and help clients connect with customers on a human level. When I’m not writing or reading about psychology, I enjoy: learning to build robots, perfecting my cooking skills, or sitting in the park doing some serious people watching. https://marisamorby.com http://twitter.com/marisamorby    Resources:   Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design: This book talks about the history of cities in North America. Why they're desig

In this version of AskTHAT I talk with Jilea Hemmings about failing forward. Jilea a serial entrepreneur talks about just taking that inital step, knowing what failure looks like for you and just not being afraid to do. Named as one of South Florida’s 25 Most Influential & Prominent Black Women in Business by Legacy Magazine Jilea Hemmings is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Best Tyme a health tech startup the allows physicians and sales reps to better schedule their time. Prior to Best Tyme Hemmings lead a successful career revamping Fortune 500 companies Pfizer, Baptist Health, & Johnson & Johnson as well as founding a boutique sales and marketing consulting agency, Eshe Consulting, and innovative meatless entrée line for kids, called Greenie Tots Whole Foods, Safeway, and Giant Eagle As a former pharmaceutical sales roots with the development of Best Tyme, a tech solution that is revolutionizing the ways physicians and representatives interact. Her work in business development expands

In this version I talk with Aaron Douglas about health and working remote. We dive into our weight loss journey, as well as meditation, fitness, and reshuffling your work day to meet your goals. Aaron works at Automattic, full time remote since 2013, live in the Milwaukee area, camping is my thing during the summer, running, biking, traveling, ADHD, etc blahblahblahblah. Links from the show: Website: http://aaron.blog Calm - https://www.calm.com/ Headspace - https://headspace.com Aria Scale - https://amzn.to/2q9nBlO Withings Scale - https://amzn.to/2GDk09P RunKeeper - https://runkeeper.com/ Strava - https://www.strava.com/ Apple Health - https://www.apple.com/ios/health/ Clark’s BP Monitor - https://amzn.to/2HdRZme Clarks Blood Glucose Meter - https://onedrop.today/

In this glorious edition of #AskTHAT, I talk with Rob about organization change. We start to explore why organizations even need change, why, and our role in that. At the end I get schooled on how to a better active listener. Robert Bogue is a father, husband, community leader, and servant with over a dozen years in business.  A passionate learner and educator, Robert has editor credit on over 100 books, author credit on 25 books and numerous courses.  Robert is also a recovering technologist with 14 years as a Microsoft MVP.  He reads and reviews a book each week on non-technical topics, distilling the wisdom of many into a set of discovered truths.  His Discovered Truths (http://www.discoveredtruths.com) project teaches everyone in the organization key interpersonal skills through short, engaging videos delivered each week to every employee.  You can follow Robert on his blog at http://www.thorprojects.com/blog. Links from today’s show: http://www.thorprojects.com/blog http://www.discoveredtruths.com http:

In this edition of AskTHAT I talk with Douglas Starnes about Data Science and Machine Learning. We dive into the misconceptions, how to get started and why should we even care.   Douglas Starnes is a polyglot ninja and tech community influencer in the Memphis area making stuff that works on more than just the web. He specializes in the fields of mobile, IoT, data science and machine learning. Douglas is a co-director of the Memphis Python User Group and a board member of the Memphis .NET User Group. He is a frequent conference speaker who has delivered more than 20 featured presentations at more than 10 conferences over the past 4 years in a variety of citiies across the southeast United States. In addition, Douglas is an active participant in local user groups. He has also served as an organizer for PyTennessee, PyOhio and TechCampMemphis. Outside of being a geek Douglas is a trained composer, aspiring triathlete and avid Lego collector.   You can find Douglas at: Website: http://douglasstarnes.c

In this show Anthony and I scratch the surface on Conflict and Conflict Transformation. There is so much in here and we each play a role in making the world a better place. Anthony's love helping people communicate and connect is Anthony's passion. His formal training is in conflict transformation, Nonviolent Communication, cross-cultural communication, and community building. He has used these skills in both his personal and professional life, and has trained and coached others to use them. He's lived in countries around the world working with different peoples and in cultures, where he has done project management for an NGO, taught in classrooms, led trainings and workshops. Since marrying his techie wife, he's taken an interest in helping the technology world benefit from these skills as well. https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonycjack/  Links: * Center for Nonviolent Communication - https://www.cnvc.org/  * Verbal Judo - https://amzn.to/2GwkEBQ  * Little Book of Conflict Trasformation - https://amzn.to/2GvB

I sit down with dear friend Jim Holmes where we riff about community and it's impact on him and his family through this past years tragic times. Links: https://twitter.com/aJimHolmes http://frazzleddad.blogspot.com/

Rolando is a talented software professional with 12+ years of experience driving development of award-winning, data-driven applications for education, gaming, e-commerce and enterprise. Analytical and tenacious problem solver with passion for mastering state-of-the-art technologies, devising innovative solutions, and delivering products that exceed customer expectations. Articulate communicator with excellent interpersonal and presentation skills; able to work effectively with internal and external teams, and build strong relationships with stakeholders at any organizational level. Bilingual (English / Spanish).   Rolando began DJing in in 1997 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. After graduating in 2001, he moved to Austin, TX where he worked for Complete Music, one of the nation’s largest DJ companies. Over the four years of working for Complete Music, Rolando received an award for the highest customer satisfaction. When he moved to Durango, CO Rolando started up Twelfth Night DJ where it quickly became on

Rizchel Dayao is a Developer Advocate at IBM in Denver, Colorado. Previously, she was a Developer Lead for the IBM Cloud and her team won the Eminence and Excellence Award in 2017, as well as the Manager’s Choice Award. She has helped facilitate IBM Design Thinking sessions and was part of the team to win the Tech Innovation Challenge Hackathon as an intern in 2014 at American Express. She graduated from Arizona State University with a degree in Computer Science. When she’s not coding away, she enjoys playing with her two adorable pups and anything Harry Potter related! Links: Twitter: @rizcheldayao LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rizcheldayao Links from the Show Kubernetes - https://kubernetes.io/ React - https://reactjs.org/ Istio - https://istio.io/ GraphQL - https://graphql.org/ Docker - https://www.docker.com/

That's right. It's the show about nothing. Well not nothing but Greg and Clark riff back and forth on cool gadgets, software tools and even get into a little Facebook privacy.

#AskTHAT live with Lemon! Microsites, Vue, PWAs and a little fruit! Links from today's show: https://ahoylemon.xyz/ https://thefpl.us https://twitter.com/AhoyLemon https://github.com/AhoyLemon A Vue.js introduction for people who know just enough jQuery to get by by Matt Rothenberg https://medium.freecodecamp.org/vue-js-introduction-for-people-who-know-just-enough-jquery-to-get-by-eab5aa193d77

Beau Carnes is a software developer in Grand Rapids, MI. He is also an experienced software instructor. Besides teaching in-person workshops and classes, he has created around 100 software training videos on YouTube and the Algorithms in Motion video course from Manning Publications. Links: WebSite - http://carnes.cc Free Code Camp - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8butISFwT-Wl7EV0hUK0BQ/featured

Javeria is a Digital Marketing Manager and has over seven years of experience in Information Technology field. She has been volunteering as a judge for VEX Robotics since 2016 and has participated as a lead champion for a coding group for children through Techpoint’s program called CoderDojo46038. She successfully ran this program for over a year. She also organized events at the Apple store, where kids learned how to code using Spheros and Swift. She was also provided an official letter of support and curriculum by Hopscotch app team. She was nominated as one of Indy’s Best and Brightest top ten finalists in technology for 2016. IBM Watson is her passion, she has been following the technology for over three years now and has worked with Watson Analytics and Blue Mix. She delivered presentations about IBM Watson in April, 2016 at Iron Yard Coding Academy and at Amegala Indy.Code() conference to introduce the audience about cognitive abilities of Watson. She is also the owner and founder of the first ever Arti

Hailing from the heart of Kansas City’s Silicon Prairie, J.D. Hillen is a Front-End / Interactive Developer for the experiential design firm, Dimensional Innovations. Since the age of 15, he's been fascinated with the connection between creativity and code. This love for all things tech has allowed him to work for a wide variety of advertising agencies, marketing firms and even the craft beer industry. When he’s not coding, you’ll find him at home spending time with his wife and two boys or in the pit of a metal show. Links: Twitter - https://twitter.com/jdhillen  GitHub - https://github.com/jdhillen Website - http://jdhillen.com  Items mentions in the show: Evernote - https://evernote.com/ Wunderlist - https://www.wunderlist.com/ Anylist - https://www.anylist.com/ How I Work - https://lifehacker.com/c/how-i-work Meister Task - https://www.meistertask.com Greg Baugues - Devs & Depression - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6x9wmlFz_c

As a user experience professional, Rachel Krause aims to show that UX is not just a specialty role on a team, but a necessary one. She believes that collaboration is the key to a product’s success and that all roles on a team can influence the user experience. Rachel is an advocate for keeping the UX process lightweight and meaningful, keeping her focus on moving the team forward. Rachel has worked with clients in many different mediums, whether it’s designing, developing, facilitating or coaching. She is also active in the UX community, speaking or facilitating workshops at meetups and conferences on all things UX. Links: https://www.rachelkrau.com  https://www.twitter.com/rachelkrau  https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelkrau  Books Mentioned in The Show Hooked - http://amzn.to/2ptztOj  Lean UX - http://amzn.to/2HPtB9T  Rocket Surgery Made Easy - http://amzn.to/2HR7n7f 

Duane is Co-Founder of Alien Arc Technologies, LLC where he focuses on creating apps targeting mobile devices, modern desktops, and the Internet of Things. As a Microsoft MVP and technology enthusiast with a passion for good software he strives to bring solutions that improve or eliminate costly duplication and repetitive processes so more important things can be done. He enjoys teaching others and speaks at conferences around the Midwest on topics ranging from DevOps to Xamarin. When not behind a computer screen he can be found sharing his love of SCUBA and all things underwater with new divers at the pool or through his underwater videos and photos at DLDAdventures.com. Links: http://duanenewman.net https://twitter.com/duanenewman https://github.com/duanenewman

Jorge is a Spanish engineer lost in Chicago. I work for the BMW Group, where me and my team deliver the Android apps for BMW, MINI and Rolls Royce. When I am not coding, I really enjoy reading, spending time with my friends, watch soccer and play all kinds of instruments! Links: Twitter - @jcocaramos Medium - https://medium.com/@jcocaramos 

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