//podcastplus.net/feed/zadevchat-podcast~072e13ad A weekly panel discussion with topics around the South African software developer community.Regular panelists are Len Weincier, Kenneth Kalmer and Kevin McKelvin. Mon, 14 Sep 2026 02:06:09 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/358867643-zadevchat-70-bsides-cape-town-infosec-with-grant-ongers-mike-davis.mp3 Chantal and Kenneth talk to Grant Ongers and Mike Davis about infosec and the local BSides conference in Cape Town.Grant and Mike are part of the organizing team behind BSides in Cape Town, and both love working in the infosec space. BSides here is based on, and supported by, the BSides conference in Las Vegas. BSides originated as a community event in Las Vegas and has been running for many years. It happens close to the popular Defcon conference.BSides CT is looking to be a great event, with some amazing hardware badges on offer and the opportunity for attendees to contribute to their Rite of Passage program and help a young budding infosec person visit Defcon & BSides LV.We also scratch the surface of infosec and it means for developers in our day-to-day work. We learned a lot, and this is only the beginning!Find and follow BSides Cape Town, Grant & Mike online:* http://www.bsidescapetown.co.za/* https://twitter.com/BSidesCapeTown* https://twitter.com/rewtd* https://twitter.com/elasticninjaHere are... Tue, 21 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/358867643-zadevchat-70-bsides-cape-town-infosec-with-grant-ongers-mike-davis.mp3 http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/358867643-zadevchat-70-bsides-cape-town-infosec-with-grant-ongers-mike-davis.mp3 Chantal and Kenneth talk to Grant Ongers and Mike Davis about infosec and the local BSides conference in Cape Town.Grant and Mike are part of the organizing team behind BSides in Cape Town, and both love working in the infosec space. BSides here is based on, and supported by, the BSides conference in Las Vegas. BSides originated as a community event in Las Vegas and has been running for many years. It happens close to the popular Defcon conference.BSides CT is looking to be a great event, with some amazing hardware badges on offer and the opportunity for attendees to contribute to their Rite of Passage program and help a young budding infosec person visit Defcon & BSides LV.We also scratch the surface of infosec and it means for developers in our day-to-day work. We learned a lot, and this is only the beginning!Find and follow BSides Cape Town, Grant & Mike online:* http://www.bsidescapetown.co.za/* https://twitter.com/BSidesCapeTown* https://twitter.com/rewtd* https://twitter.com/elasticninjaHere are... Tue, 21 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/358867643-zadevchat-70-bsides-cape-town-infosec-with-grant-ongers-mike-davis.mp3 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/342088474-zadevchat-73-lets-test-with-louise-perold.mp3 We chat to Louise Perold about testing as a means to improve the overall quality of software, and the upcoming Let's Test conferenceKenneth & Len chat to Louise Perold about the art & practice of software testing. Louise reframes testing in a wonderful light, and how testers compliment and support the existing software development efforts. There are many things that simply cannot be tested reliably with automated techniques, and we explore why.Louise has been helping teams write better software since the early 2000's, and is continuing on that journey today with her new consultancy and yearly conference. Louise is one of the proud members of [House of Test](https://www.houseoftest.rocks/en/), along with [Oz Chihwayi](/51). Louise is also one of the organisers of the local [Let's Test](http://lets-test.com/?page_id=5283) conference.Just a few of the tips offered by Louise for developers working with testers:* Talk, talk, talk* Testers can help clarify your thoughts on design, and help identify where th... Wed, 13 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/342088474-zadevchat-73-lets-test-with-louise-perold.mp3 http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/342088474-zadevchat-73-lets-test-with-louise-perold.mp3 We chat to Louise Perold about testing as a means to improve the overall quality of software, and the upcoming Let's Test conferenceKenneth & Len chat to Louise Perold about the art & practice of software testing. Louise reframes testing in a wonderful light, and how testers compliment and support the existing software development efforts. There are many things that simply cannot be tested reliably with automated techniques, and we explore why.Louise has been helping teams write better software since the early 2000's, and is continuing on that journey today with her new consultancy and yearly conference. Louise is one of the proud members of [House of Test](https://www.houseoftest.rocks/en/), along with [Oz Chihwayi](/51). Louise is also one of the organisers of the local [Let's Test](http://lets-test.com/?page_id=5283) conference.Just a few of the tips offered by Louise for developers working with testers:* Talk, talk, talk* Testers can help clarify your thoughts on design, and help identify where th... Wed, 13 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/342088474-zadevchat-73-lets-test-with-louise-perold.mp3 http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/340367418-zadevchat-72-ladies-that-ux-with-inez-ridhwana-lara.mp3 We chat to Inez, Ridhwana & Lara about the Ladies that UX communities in Cape Town, and as of today Johannesburg.Chantal, Kenneth & Kevin are joined by the dynamic trio of Inez Patel, Ridhwana Khan & Lara Pietersen to talk about UX and the local Ladies that UX meetups in Cape Town and now Johannesburg.User Experience (UX) is an integral part of design, be it in the physical world or the digital world. It is the practice of putting the user first, creating empathy for the users of your systems."If the user can't use it, it doesn't work" -- Susan DrayLizzie Dyson and Georgie Bottomley, both UX (User Experience) professionals, loved their jobs but there was always a doubt about where the other women in the industry were. So they started the first Ladies that UX meetup in Manchester, UK, and it exploded. Lara was looking for an international community to connect with when she discovered Ladies that UX and it _stuck_. The Cape Town LTUX meetup is the first African chapter of LTUX, started by Lara. Inez... Thu, 31 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/340367418-zadevchat-72-ladies-that-ux-with-inez-ridhwana-lara.mp3 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/340367418-zadevchat-72-ladies-that-ux-with-inez-ridhwana-lara.mp3 We chat to Inez, Ridhwana & Lara about the Ladies that UX communities in Cape Town, and as of today Johannesburg.Chantal, Kenneth & Kevin are joined by the dynamic trio of Inez Patel, Ridhwana Khan & Lara Pietersen to talk about UX and the local Ladies that UX meetups in Cape Town and now Johannesburg.User Experience (UX) is an integral part of design, be it in the physical world or the digital world. It is the practice of putting the user first, creating empathy for the users of your systems."If the user can't use it, it doesn't work" -- Susan DrayLizzie Dyson and Georgie Bottomley, both UX (User Experience) professionals, loved their jobs but there was always a doubt about where the other women in the industry were. So they started the first Ladies that UX meetup in Manchester, UK, and it exploded. Lara was looking for an international community to connect with when she discovered Ladies that UX and it _stuck_. The Cape Town LTUX meetup is the first African chapter of LTUX, started by Lara. Inez... Thu, 31 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/340367418-zadevchat-72-ladies-that-ux-with-inez-ridhwana-lara.mp3 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/340182137-zadevchat-71-is-intelligence-an-algorithm-with-jade-abbott.mp3 We chat to Jade Abbott from Retro Rabbit about artificial intelligence, broadly and more specifically about NLP and what that means for us.Chantal, Kenneth & Len talk to Jade about natural language processing, commonly referred to as NLP. What does it take to get a machine to understand what we're saying as people?Jade has always had a fascination with smart machines, from trying to build robots in school and now teaching machines to understand what we're saying. Jade takes a fairly complex topic and helps us come to terms with it. We question whether people, or intelligence, is algorithmic and what that means.Processing natural language is not without challenges and Jade walks us through the maze of terminology and some tools to get started with, and we have several resources below to help as well. What would happen if AI tries to right a movie? What happens if the movie was made?Importantly, neural nets are not the whole of AI. We wander around expert systems, random forests, and other great statistical... Wed, 30 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/340182137-zadevchat-71-is-intelligence-an-algorithm-with-jade-abbott.mp3 http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/340182137-zadevchat-71-is-intelligence-an-algorithm-with-jade-abbott.mp3 We chat to Jade Abbott from Retro Rabbit about artificial intelligence, broadly and more specifically about NLP and what that means for us.Chantal, Kenneth & Len talk to Jade about natural language processing, commonly referred to as NLP. What does it take to get a machine to understand what we're saying as people?Jade has always had a fascination with smart machines, from trying to build robots in school and now teaching machines to understand what we're saying. Jade takes a fairly complex topic and helps us come to terms with it. We question whether people, or intelligence, is algorithmic and what that means.Processing natural language is not without challenges and Jade walks us through the maze of terminology and some tools to get started with, and we have several resources below to help as well. What would happen if AI tries to right a movie? What happens if the movie was made?Importantly, neural nets are not the whole of AI. We wander around expert systems, random forests, and other great statistical... Wed, 30 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/340182137-zadevchat-71-is-intelligence-an-algorithm-with-jade-abbott.mp3 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/340036506-zadevchat-69-pink-it-with-ruddy-riba.mp3 We talk to Ruddy Riba about her career as a women in tech, and Pink-IT and what they are doing to help women in tech find a supportive community and grow their networks.Chantal, Kenneth & Len talk to Ruddy about some of the challenges woman in technology face, and what she and her partners in Pink-IT are doing to help get women into tech.Ruddy shares with us the story of growing up far from Johannesburg, getting into university and seeing the immense drop-off rate of young women in just the first few classes at university. Entering her first job as the only female on the team, it became clear to Ruddy that this disparity needs to be addressed.Pink-IT is an organization that strives to connect women in tech with mentors they can look up to as they grow into the industry. She's also helped high-school students, especially girls, realize that software development is a viable career choice when they didn't even know it existed. Right there at high-school level Ruddy is taking actions that will help address th... Tue, 29 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/340036506-zadevchat-69-pink-it-with-ruddy-riba.mp3 http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/340036506-zadevchat-69-pink-it-with-ruddy-riba.mp3 We talk to Ruddy Riba about her career as a women in tech, and Pink-IT and what they are doing to help women in tech find a supportive community and grow their networks.Chantal, Kenneth & Len talk to Ruddy about some of the challenges woman in technology face, and what she and her partners in Pink-IT are doing to help get women into tech.Ruddy shares with us the story of growing up far from Johannesburg, getting into university and seeing the immense drop-off rate of young women in just the first few classes at university. Entering her first job as the only female on the team, it became clear to Ruddy that this disparity needs to be addressed.Pink-IT is an organization that strives to connect women in tech with mentors they can look up to as they grow into the industry. She's also helped high-school students, especially girls, realize that software development is a viable career choice when they didn't even know it existed. Right there at high-school level Ruddy is taking actions that will help address th... Tue, 29 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/340036506-zadevchat-69-pink-it-with-ruddy-riba.mp3