Software Engineering Radio

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Michael  Guests: Chuck Connell   Recording venue: Skype Michael discusses with his guest Chuck Connell the differences between software engineering and computer science. What makes software engineering so unpredictable, with so few formal results? And how can we advance the field of software engineering without these results? Links Article: "Difference between Software Engineering and Computer Science" Grady Booch's handbook of software architecture Steve McConnell's blog about software development NASA page about formal software methods Chuck Connell's other essays about software engineering

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Arno  Guests: Dave Thomas   Recording venue: Skype Dave explains why reading source code is at least as important a skill as writing source code. He shares approaches for how to get to grips with unknown and undocumented source code even if it is non-trivial in size. He finishes with advice for how to get started reading code. Links Book: Code Reading - the Open Source Perspective Article: Software Archaeology

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus  Michael  Guests:   Recording venue: Michael and Markus discuss what makes a good R&D manager and how to potentially become an R&D manager. You will learn what some of the essential skills are, what the challenges are, and what the 'mission/vision/strategy thing' is actually good for. Links Wikipedia: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Wikipedia: Eisenhower time management Podcast: Manager Tools

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus  Guests: many   Recording venue: EuroPLoP 2009 This episode is a discussion with various authors of patterns reviewed at EuroPLoP 2009. Topics include Product Line Engineering, Distributed Development, Open Source and Embedded Systems Links EuropPLoP 2009

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus  Guests: Eberhard Wolff   Recording venue: In this episode we discuss the current state of the spring framework. We talk about core features (dependency injectioin, AOP) but also about the spring universe, i.e. some of the more specific frameworks such as Spring Batch. Links Eberhard Wolff's Blog Spring Framework Docs Spring Framework

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Martin  Guests: Doug Simon   Recording venue: Skype In this episode we talk with Doug Simon from Sun Microsystems Laboratories about the Maxine Research VM, a so-called meta-circular virtual machine. Maxine is a JVM that is written itself in Java, but aims at taking JVM development to the next level while using highly integrated Java IDEs as development environments and running and debugging the VM itself directly from the Inspector, an IDE-like tool specialized for the Maxine VM. During the episode we talk about the basic ideas behind Maxine, what exactly "meta-circular" means and what makes it interesting and promising to build a Java VM in Java. We talk about the relationship to Sun's current production JVM (HotSpot) and about ideas and directions for the future of Maxine. Links Maxine Project Website Videos on Maxine at Channel Sun Overview of Maxine on InfoQ

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus  Guests: Jim de Rivieres   Recording venue: JAOO 2008 This episode is a discussion with Jim De Rivieres about APIs: How to design good APIs, the role of the documentation/specification in APIs, API evolution and other relevant topics. Links Wikipedia: API Book: The art of the metaobject protocol

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus  Guests: Kevlin Henney and Klaus Marquardt   Recording venue: OOP 2009 This is another episode recorded at OOP 2009, thanks to SIGS Datacom and programme chair Frances Paulisch for making this possible. Here is the abstract from the conference program: Many software systems have fragile architectures that are based on brittle assumptions or rigid architectures that reduce options and make change difficult. On the one hand, an architecture needs to be fit for the present day, suitable for immediate use, and on the other it needs to accommodate the future, absorbing reasonable uncertainty. However, an approach that is overly focused on today's needs and nothing more can create an inflexible architecture. An approach that becomes obsessed with possible future changes creates an overly complex architecture that is unfit for both today's and tomorrow's needs. Both approaches encourage an early descent into legacy for a system. The considerations presented in this talk reflect an approach that is more about thinking in the continuous present tense than just the present or the future tense. This includes principles from lean thinking, practices common in agile processes and techniques for loosely coupled design. Links Wikipedia: Software Architecture Kevlin Henney's Homepage Klaus Marquardt's Homepage Book: 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know Mind Map concerning Sustainable Architectures

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus  Guests: Jim Purbrick   Recording venue: JAOO 2008 In the first part of this episode we discuss a couple of basics about SecondLife (scaling, partitioning, etc). The second part specifically looks at how the dev team tackled a number of interesting problems in the context of executing their own LSL scripting language on top of Mono. Links Jim Purbrick's Blog SecondLife Linden Lab LSL Mono

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus  Guests: Gilad Braha   Recording venue: DSL Devcon This episode is a conversation with Gilad Braha about Newspeak, type systems in general and optional/pluggable types in particular. It was recorded during DSL Devcon in the gardens of the Microsoft campus, and thanks to Gilad's "speaking like a book" way of talking it is published completely unedited :-) Links Gilad's website Newspeak website Pluggable Types

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus  Guests: Linda Rising   Recording venue: OOP 2009 This episode is once again with Linda Rising, this time on the book she coauthored with Mary Lynn Manns on introducing ideas into organizations. The talk is another one of the SE Radio Live sessions recorded at OOP 2009 - thanks to SIGS Datacom and programme chair Frances Paulisch for making this possible. Links Linda's website Book: Fearless Change

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Arno  Guests: Allan Kelly   Recording venue: Skype In this episode, Allan shares his insights about how learning is a necessary part of software development. He covers the personal as well as the team and the organizational level and offers practical advice. Links Book: Changing Software Development: Learning to Become Agile, Allan Kelly Book: The Living Company, Arie de Geus Book: The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge Book: The Knowing-Doing Gap, Pfeffer & Sutton Paper: How do Committees invent?, Melvin Conwy

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Arno  Guests: Jim Melton   Recording venue: Skype In this episode, Arno talks to Jim Melton about the SQL programming language. In addition to covering the concepts and ideas behind SQL, Jim shares stories and insights based on his many years' experience as SQL specification lead. Links Book: SQL for Smarties Book: SQL Performance Tuning

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus  Guests: David Frankel   Recording venue: *** INCOMPLETE PLACEHOLDER - SHOWNOTES WILL BE FIXED *** In this episode, Dirk talks with David Frankel about MDA Links MDA on Wikipedia

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Michael  Guests: Petri Ahonen   Recording venue: In this episode Michael interviews one of our regular listeners: Petri Ahonen. Petri introduces Software Configuration Management by defining key terms and describing relevant concepts. Links SCM at Wikipedia