Software Development Podcasts

I was recently chatting with some coworkers about podcasts I listen to, so I thought I should document that list for easy sharing and to find some gems I am missing.



I have taken advantage of my commute time and turned my commute into as talked about by Zig Ziglar. I heard this idea via some fitness blogs I was reading where the trainers were talking about ways to continuously improve, and decided I would apply that idea to my commute, walks, or even running errands.




The other thing I have started taking advantage of is the ability of podcast players to play at double speed. Most podcasts out there do well at one-and-a-half or double speed, and have heard that some players even support three-times speed. This allows you to dramatically increase your consumption rate if you can follow along at those speeds. You may not understand everything that is said, but you can always go back and re-listen to sections if needed, let it broaden your known unknowns, and at the least it should help to remove some of your .



I did a listing of Software Development Podcasts previously, and am going to try and make this a yearly or bi-yearly update based off how frequently this list of podcasts change in my rotation.*- The same two hosts of .NET Rocks, but with a focus on tablets and tablet development

*- One of the hosts of .NET Rocks and The Tablet Show, focused on server administration mostly focused on the Mircosoft platform.



RUBY PODCASTS



*- Panel discussion on various Ruby related topics and projects.



CLOJURE PODCASTS



*- Formerly Think Relevance podcast

*- Infrequent updates, but enjoyed the episodes that have been released



JAVASCRIPT PODCASTS



*- Panel discussion on JavaScript topics, started by the host who started Ruby Rogues. The first episodes were hard to listen to due to some negativity, but have picked up listening to it again in the 50 s episode numbers, and working my way back as I get a chance.



ERLANG PODCASTS



*- Panel discussion mostly about Erlang, but touches on related topics and other functional programming languages and how they relate to Erlang.



GENERAL



*- Hosted by one of the panelists of Ruby Rogues, with a focus on distributed software development, with the goal to find out the good and the bad experiences and help share information on how distributed teams work.

*- Recently I have only been finding a few shows on topics that seem interesting, but have a large backlog of shows with interesting topics.



NEW COMERS



These are podcasts that I have only listened to a couple of episodes of, either because they have only released a couple, or have just started trying them.



*- They only have a few episodes out so far, but some good info from the ones they have done.

*- Podcast from Thoughtbot on technical topics. Just started listening to it recently, and plan on digging into the backlog of shows.



ON MY LIST TO CHECK OUT



*- Podcast on DevOps

*- Started by the same host of JavaScript Jabber and Ruby Rogues about freelancing. I would think the information would be relevant to full time employees even for working to build ones career.



If you have any other podcasts that are good please feel free to add your list of podcasts that I have left out to the comments.

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