John Callaway

About John Callaway

An author and Microsoft MVP, John has been a professional developer since 1999. He has focused primarily on web technologies and has experience with everything from PHP to C# to ReactJS to SignalR. Clean code and professionalism are particularly important to him, as well as mentoring and teaching others what he has learned along the way.

Maxime is a Canadian Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft. He’s been in the tech industry since the 2000s. He’s always been working with .NET for as far as he can remember. Links https://twitter.com/MaximRouiller https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/advocates/maxime-rouiller https://blog.maximerouiller.com/ https://github.com/MaximRouiller https://stackoverflow.com/users/24975/maxime-rouiller https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximerouiller/ Resources https://mvp.microsoft.com/ https://studentpartners.microsoft.com/en-us “Tempting Time” by Animals As […]

Episode 087 – Students are the Future with Maxime Rouiller

15 Apr, 2019 in Podcast by John Callaway

This week we talk about Software Quality vs Grade. Definition of Quality PMBOK V.5 – “Quality is the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements” PMBOK: Project Management Body of Knowlege ISO 9000:2015 – “Quality is the totality of features and characteristics of a product or […]

Episode 086 – Software Quality vs Grade

8 Apr, 2019 in Podcast by John Callaway

Jon Skeet joins us to talk Noda Time, Semantic Versioning, and Diversity in Tech. Jon is a software engineer with Google, working in the London office. He has a keen interest in C# and also in date/time APIs. Links https://twitter.com/jonskeet https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/ https://nodatime.org/ https://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet Resources https://semver.org/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/library-guidance/cross-platform-targeting […]

Episode 085 – Noda Time with Jon Skeet

1 Apr, 2019 in Podcast by John Callaway

Lunchpool is on a mission to help build stronger connections through lunch break networking. The app helps facilitate “frictionless lunch planning” so that you can meet other professionals with similar interests or goals. Links https://letslunchpool.com/ https://twitter.com/letslunchpool https://twitter.com/i_am_abell https://twitter.com/m_dimmitt https://www.facebook.com/letslunchpool https://www.instagram.com/letslunchpool/ Sponsor We are thrilled to have PVS-Studio […]

Episode 084 – Startup Weekend brought us Lunchpool

25 Mar, 2019 in Podcast by John Callaway

Olivia Liddell is a Cloud Training Specialist at Cloudbakers. She is a former Chicago Public Schools teacher who now specializes in technology training and change management. She is passionate about teaching, mentoring, and distance running. Links https://twitter.com/oliravi https://www.linkedin.com/in/olivialiddell/ Resources https://www.slideshare.net/OliviaLiddell/olivia-liddell-codemash-2019-becoming-an-effective-mentor https://www.shrm.org/membership/student-resources/pages/mentorprogram.aspx https://www.mentoring.org/ https://medium.com/@benlesh/thoughts-on-mentorship-in-tech-d46c8401c23c https://www.theserverside.com/feature/The-best-ways-to-approach-mentoring-women-in-tech Sponsor We […]

Episode 083 – Mentorship with Olivia Liddell

18 Mar, 2019 in Podcast by John Callaway

Brad has been a professional software developer for more than 25 years, working as a consultant, developer, team lead, architect, and CTO. He is currently working at Microsoft on the App Center team, having previously worked on the ASP.NET and CodePlex teams. He has been involved in the agile […]

Episode 082 – xUnit with Brad Wilson

11 Mar, 2019 in Podcast by John Callaway

David is a family man, geek, musician, illustrator, speaker, software developer, and Microsoft MVP living in North GA. He’s currently a Senior Developer Advocate at Okta. He runs on a high-octane mixture of caffeine and JavaScript, and is entirely made of bacon. Links https://twitter.com/reverentgeek https://reverentgeek.com/ https://github.com/reverentgeek https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidneal/ “Tempting […]

Episode 081 – Reluctant Leader with David Neal

4 Mar, 2019 in Podcast by John Callaway

Heather is the CTO of ROCeteer, a Las Vegas-based entrepreneurial growth company. She is a dynamic, highly-sought-after speaker who has delivered more than 500 presentations to a list of clients including Microsoft, Starbucks, Zappos, Nestle, Boeing, MGM, The Four Seasons, and others. Links https://heathriel.com/ https://twitter.com/heathriel https://antarcticonf.com/ https://www.youtube.com/user/heathriel https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatherwilde/ […]

Episode 080 – Stress Management with Heather Wilde

25 Feb, 2019 in Podcast by John Callaway

Jason is a game developer and writer who loves to teach others how to build their own games. He’s spent his career working on all types of games, but his real passion is in teaching others game development. Links https://unity3d.college/ https://twitter.com/Unity3DCollege https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-weimann-bab0984/ https://unity3d.college/2018/11/28/unit-testing-in-unity-testing-against-monobehaviors-using-mocks/ Transcript Jason Weimann: Hey, […]

Episode 079 – Unity Game Development w/ Jason Weimann

18 Feb, 2019 in Podcast by John Callaway

Heather is a passionate coder and entrepreneur. She has experience working with Fortune 500 companies building enterprise-level voice, mobile and C#/.Net applications. She focuses on external thought leadership, encouraging fellow programmers to present on topics outside of the office and in the community. Links https://www.quorralyne.com https://github.com/Quorralyne https://twitter.com/quorralyne https://www.linkedin.com/in/heathermdowning […]

Episode 078 – Thought Leadership with Heather Downing

11 Feb, 2019 in Podcast by John Callaway

Maxim has worked at companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, and now works as a staff software engineer at Uber. Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine we developed at Uber Engineering to execute asynchronous long-running business logic in a scalable and resilient way. […]

Episode 077 – Uber Cadence with Maxim Fateev

4 Feb, 2019 in Podcast by John Callaway

What is Quality Software and how do we ensure we are Delivering Quality Software? Transcript Clayton Hunt: This week we’re talking about quality and how we can deliver quality software. Jon Ash: So quality software that’s what the QA departments for? John Callaway: Quality is everyone’s responsibility. I […]

Episode 076 – Delivering Quality Software

28 Jan, 2019 in Podcast by John Callaway

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