How has COVID-19 affected legacy code based systems, and what do we do to address the issue? Today we talk with Joao-Pierre Ruth, a technology journalist at InformationWeek where he covers DevOps and cloud computing. Joao-Pierre gives us his insights on the topic that inspired his recent article “COBOL, COVID-19 and Coping with Legacy’s Tech-debt”. After listening to the episode, connect with Joao-Pierre on LinkedIn and Twitter, and check out his articles for InformationWeek.

Mentioned in this episode:

Joao-Pierre on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/joaopierre/

Joao-Pierre on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jpruth 

Joao-Pierre’s author profile on InformationWeek: https://www.informationweek.com/author-bio.asp?author_id=5108& 

InformationWeek at https://www.informationweek.com

Joao-Pierre Ruth, COBOL, COVID-19, and Coping with Legacy Tech Debt at https://www.informationweek.com/strategic-cio/security-and-risk-strategy/cobol-covid-19-and-coping-with-legacy-tech-debt/a/d-id/1337516

Knowing how to prioritize tasks and how to eliminate unnecessary assignments is a crucial skill for successful project management. The more complicated project is, the less obvious its priorities are. If only there were a tool that could help us navigate through this complexity. Today we talk with Jason C. McDonald, CEO, and co-founder of MousePaw Media, about Quantified Task Management, the tool that does exactly that. When you finish listening to the episode, connect with Jason on LinkedIn and Twitter, visit his website at https://codemouse92.com, and pre-order his book Dead Simple Python: Idiomatic Python for Impatient Programmers. 

Mentioned in this episode:

Jason on Twitter at https://twitter.com/codemouse92?lang=en

Jason at LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/codemouse92

MousePaw Media at https://mousepawmedia.com 

Quantified Task Management at https://standards.mousepawmedia.com/qtm.html

Jason C McDonald, Dead Simple Python: Idiomatic Python for Impatient Programmers at https://amzn.to/3b2XenX

Scott Rosenberg, Dreaming in Code at https://amzn.to/32RvG1L

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We often talk about the makers and menders dichotomy on this show. But we rarely dived deep into the dynamics of collaboration between these two groups of creatives. Today we talk with Brandon Lewis and Luke Rabin, co-founders of BLDR, a digital agency specialized in creating UI/UX designs, technical docs, and developer teams. Building on the immense contributions of behavioral economics, Brandon and Luke talk about the ways of bringing makers and menders together and ensuring that their collaboration is fruitful and lucrative. When you finish listening to the episode, make sure to connect with them on LinkedIn, and visit their website at https://www.startwithbldr.com. 

Mentioned in this episode:

Brandon on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-lewis-design/ 

Luke on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukerabin/ 

BLDR at: https://www.startwithbldr.com