Top Technology Podcasts
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In no particular order here is the list of of technology related podcasts that I frequently listen to.
- Cranky Geeks - Not cranky enough, but John C. Dvorak and guest rant on latest technology news.
- Diggnation - A weekly tech/web culture show based on the top stories on Digg.
- Drunk and Retired - They are not as drunk as one would hope, but they do tend to go off on Rails, software development, and zombies.
- Google Developer Podcast - Googlers talking about the latest Google APIs.
- The Java Posse - The seminal Java podcast put out by Google, Sun, and Apple engineers, just hope they never have to pronounce your name.
- .Net Rocks! - A weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform.
- Railscasts - Free, and most importantly frequent, Ruby on Rails screencasts ranging from 5 to 10 minutes covering testing, migrations, controllers, and more.
- WebDevRadio - This podcast covers web development news with the occasional interview with engineers working on projects with .NET, MySQL, PHP, etc.
- Polymorphic Podcast - Insight into software development in the .NET platform along with interviews with industry luminaries.
- Code Sermon - The podast somewhat preaches to the choir. This is a somewhat semi-weekly sermon on the virtues of software development best practices.
- Killer Innovation - A podcast about creativity, innovation, and idea generation. This podcast will present ideas to think outside the box, or IDE.
- Grails Podcast - Keeps you up to date about the latest Grails developments.
- NetBeans Podcast - Hosted by Roman Strobl of Sun, this podcast has the occasional interview with NetBeans developers like Tor Norbye and Geertjan Wielenga.
- Ask A Ninja - Every programmer needs a break between hacking sessions.
- Rails Podcast - News and interviews about the Ruby language and the Rails framework.
- Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders - This podcast is put out by the Stanford business school. It usually has business leader share their experience.
- Floss Weekly - Free/Libre Open Source Software might be free, but it is not timely.
- Late Night Cocoa Podcast - Usually has hacking cocoa and API discussions and Cocoa practitioners, currently on summer hiatus.
- TWiT - Leo Laporte and gang talk technology, unless they are reminiscing about their TechTV days or how to monetize ‘netcasts’.
- Scoble Show - Robert Scoble talks with geeks, technologists, and developers.
- GigaOm Show - Om Malik and Joyce Kim talk with entrepreneurs in the valley and run down some of the latest tech news.
If you feel I missed any other developer noteworthy podcast please let me know in the comments.
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8:09 pm on October 1st, 2007
I believe that Hanselminutes at http://hanselminutes.com/ is one of the better technology-related podcasts. Scott discusses mostly software but has spawned some interesting discussions with his recent ‘casts on building the ultimate developer PC.
8:47 pm on October 1st, 2007
Software Engineering Radio at http://www.se-radio.net/ is always informative, if a little dry sometimes.
9:34 pm on October 1st, 2007
You missed a big one. If you want to talk about software development, then Software Engineering Radio is a must. It covers broad-field topics such as SOA, MDSD, Design By Contract, Code refactoring, Dependency Injection, Dynamic Programming Languages, etc. etc.
It’s more like a college course in Software Engineering, and it always provides a lot of good resources for learning some new programming paradigm, design method, or general Software Engineering principle, pattern, or process. Very good to listen to.
9:35 pm on October 1st, 2007
I forgot to post the website. All apologies:
http://www.se-radio.net
9:38 pm on October 1st, 2007
WHAT?! Where is KenRadio.com?
10:14 am on October 2nd, 2007
http://www.maccast.com is an excellent podcast for current events and skill building for “All things Macintosh”.
11:34 am on October 2nd, 2007
Can’t leave out the Maximum PC Podcast. It’s not completely developer related, but neither is diggnation. http://www.maximumpc.com/articles/Podcast
7:56 pm on October 2nd, 2007
Great list! To contribute, we just launched a Ruby on Rails news podcast over at Rails Envy: http://www.railsenvy.com/podcast. It fits in with everything here. Take care and thanks for the list.
10:09 am on October 3rd, 2007
Thank you for the inclusion of http://www.webdevradio.com in your list - it’s an honor to be up there with so many great podcasts! I would also submit that http://boagworld.com and the ‘oursql’ podcast series at http://sheeri.net/ are both well done and informative for web and mysql people.
5:45 am on October 7th, 2007
Great list of podcast! MacBreak Weekly is quite good too.