Over the past year or so I’ve been kicking around the idea of starting up a podcast of my own to go along with the efforts that I’ve put in with Dave and Cait on the Aussie Geek Podcast. I love doing the AGP and it helps to stimulate a large portion of the geek side of my personality… but not all of it. The one piece that it leaves off is the developer piece.
I’ve tried to stimulate this in a few different ways in the past, writing blog posts around pieces of code; trying to kick off a standalone open-source project and writing my two plugins for WordPress (Admin Links Widget, Random Image Selector). Though these were all items that I enjoyed they lacked a certain interactivity.
When Jeff offered to let me co-host WordPress Weekly to provide a developer’s perspective it gave me the unique opportunity of mixing my interest in software development with an interaction with a community. I only did a handful of shows at the end of last year, but it helped to reinforce that I really enjoyed putting my skills to use providing information for other people.
There are a great number of development-focused podcasts which discuss wider abstract concepts, and complex topics but precious few which dive into the nuts and bolts of specific software development topics. Examples of a couple that I’ve really enjoyed listening to lately are the .NET Rocks! podcast (Carl Franklin, Richard Campbell) and the Stack Overflow podcast (Jeff Atwood, Joel Spolsky).
Realistically, this new show idea won’t come to pass until later this year, probably in the April-May timeframe as I have several weeks of school to get through before I explain to my lovely wife why I’m spending yet more time in front of the computer.
So there it is, out in the open: I hope to be releasing a development-focused show sometime later this year.
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yep, I think its a great idea, I’m looking at doing something with a solo podcast myself this year as well, not quite sure of the focus though, probably hardcore techie stuff mixed with some humor and internet news / memes thrown in!
I’d love to hear a solo podcast from yourself on the development side though thats for sure!
Sounds like a good idea Keith. Would you consider doing screen casts as well? One area I don’t see alot of podcasts on are the tools developers use, such as Vim, NetBeans etc.
I’m sure you can get plenty of feedback and support as you plan from the AGP community.
Dave
hey KD, like the way you thinking. i threw out a quick post after our short convo on twitter 2day. just hope i can keep the steam rolling on my own this time. thanks for the inspiration