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In this episode Robert Navarro talks with Roland Sobrepena about becoming a developer after being a system administrator for most of his career.Patreon (Donate to Get Up And Code) I’d really appreciate it if you could Rate Get Up and CODE on iTunes. Thanks! Links Robert’s Blog (http://herculesblog.com)Get Up And Code Twitter (@getupandcode)Robert’s Twitter (@navarrorc)Robert’s Github (navarrorc)   Learning resources pluralsight.comtutsplus.comlynda.comsafaribooksonline.com

In this episode Robert Navarro talks with his brother Carlos Navarro about his experience as a tester. They talk about tools and how they will both start using wallaby.js a super fast test runner to test their JavaScript. Carlos uses AngularJS and Robert uses ReactJS, so they will both talk about how they are unit testing against both frameworks in future shows. Patreon (Donate to Get Up And Code) I’d really appreciate it if you could Rate Get Up and CODE on iTunes. Thanks! Links Robert's Blog (http://herculesblog.com)Get Up And Code Twitter (@getupandcode)Robert's Twitter (@navarrorc)Robert's Github (navarrorc)   Learning resources pluralsight.comtutsplus.comlynda.comsafaribooksonline.com   Full Transcript (Coming Soon)

In this episode Robert Navarro introduces The Refactoring Your Body Challenge, a challenge where he will help an IT professional get ready for the fitness stage or at least look his or her best. He introduces Carlos Navarro as the first challenger. Carlos is a Professional Software Developer and is Robert’s younger brother; he is really determined to get fit and will even take it a step further by competing in Physique at the Naturally Fit Show in Austin, TX. Learn about his weaknesses and strengths. Follow the brothers on their journey to compete in 2016. Learn, train and get inspired! Patreon (Donate to Get Up And Code) I’d really appreciate it if you could Rate Get Up and CODE on iTunes. Thanks! Links Robert's Blog (http://herculesblog.com)Get Up And Code Twitter (@getupandcode)Robert's Twitter (@navarrorc)Robert's Github (navarrorc) Full Transcript Speaker 1:      Welcome to the Get Up and CODE Podcast with your host pro natural bodybuilder and software developer Robert Navarro. The only podcast that combines fitness and programming and does it in less time than it takes to finish your workout. Robert:           Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Get Up and CODE. On today's episode, I'm very happy to let you guys know that I have a guest and that I also wanted to share an idea that I came up with in order to present you with the fitness information that we all need to hear. Let me get started with that. I've been thinking on how to deliver this information to you guys, and I just didn’t want to just give you the obvious because we're all smart. We all know that we got to eat better. We got to drink more water, sleep longer, exercise. So I came up with the idea of a challenge and I'm calling this challenge The Refactoring Your Body Challenge. This is where I'm going to be taking an IT professional and get him or her ready for the fitness stage or to look their best. I will take someone under my wing. I will teach, train and inspire this individual. The idea is to bring awareness to the advan

In this episode Robert Navarro shares the technique he uses to deal with uncertainty and vague software requirements; become the top cat in your software development shop. He also challenges you to start making small changes that will improve your health.Patreon (Donate to Get Up And Code) I’d really appreciate it if you could Rate Get Up and CODE on iTunes. Thanks! Links Robert's Blog (http://herculesblog.com)Get Up And Code Twitter (@getupandcode)Robert's Twitter (@navarrorc)Robert's Github (navarrorc)   Full Transcript Speaker 1:      Welcome to the Get Up and CODE Podcast with your host pro natural bodybuilder and software developer Robert Navarro. The only podcast that combines fitness and programming and does it in less time than it takes to finish your workout. Robert:           Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Get Up and CODE. I want to take this time to thank 2 loyal listeners, Tony and Allen and also of course John Sonmez for their feedback. I wanted to let you guys know that I’ve taken your advice into consideration and hopefully you could hear a difference in the way I’m producing this episode so let’s get started. On today’s show I wanted to talk to you guys about how I work through uncertainty in vague software requirements but before I do that I wanted to explain a little bit the title of the show, you know, How To Become a Top Cat. Back in the ‘60s there was a cartoon named Top Cat and in it had a character, a leader, a leader cat named TC. This cat was the leader of the pack and everyone in that group, the other cats in the group would always follow everything he did. I’m sure you guys could pull up the episodes on YouTube and watch one or 2 of those just to kind of familiarize yourself with what I’m talking about which is not too relevant to our topic here, but I just got the idea of as software developers sometimes we’re known as being cats and the easy expression of hurting cats that’s very difficult to do because cats have a mind of their own and they do w

In this episode Robert Navarro talks about the importance of Before and After photos during your fitness transformation. He also shares his current web development workflow that he uses to develop for SharePoint Online. Patreon (Donate to Get Up And Code) I’d really appreciate it if you could Rate Get Up and CODE on iTunes. Thanks! Links Robert's Blog (http://herculesblog.com)Get Up And Code Twitter (@getupandcode)Robert's Twitter (@navarrorc)Robert's Github (navarrorc) Show Notes Competition Video (Overall Winner) Alamo Showdown Classic 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBcyiszSDwU He is the lightweight competitor, in the middle. Full Transcript Speaker 1: Welcome to the Get Up and CODE Podcast with your host pro natural bodybuilder and software developer Robert Navarro. The only podcast that combines fitness and programming and does it in less time than it takes to finish your workout. Robert: Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Get Up and CODE. In this episode I talk about the importance of taking before and after photos. I will also introduce my current web development workflow using Webpack, Gulp and React.js with TypeScript. I hope you listened to the last episode where John introduced me as the new host of the podcast. If you haven’t, no worries, I’ll quickly introduce myself. My name is Robert Navarro. I’m a software developer that has been actively competing in natural bodybuilding competitions for the past 3 years and in the last episode I had said that I was getting ready to compete in less than 24 hours from the time of recording that show. The competition took place on a Saturday October 10th of this year 2015. I’m very excited to announce that I won the bodybuilding competition but most importantly that I’m now a pro natural bodybuilder. I earned my pro card with the NFF, the Naturally Fit Federation from Austin, Texas. You can find out more about the federation at natu

In this episode John Sonmez introduces Robert Navarro as the new host. Robert talks about his background and how he got into fitness. Stay tuned for more content in future episodes.Patreon (Donate to Get Up And Code) I’d really appreciate it if you could Rate Get Up and CODE on iTunes. Thanks! Full Transcript: Speaker 1:      Welcome to the Get Up and CODE Podcast with your host John Sonmez. The only podcast that combines fitness and programming and does it in less time than it takes to finish your workout. John:               Hey everyone, welcome to Get Up and CODE. Are we back? What is going on? I said that was the last episode but it’s not the last episode so if you remember at the end of episode 110 I said that I was looking for someone potentially to take over the show. Well, I have found someone and I think everyone is going to be happy with the choice. I just want to say I would not have decided to do this if I didn’t find the right person. I’ve got—Roberto Navarro is—did I say your name right? Robert:           You got it but you could call me Robert. John:               Okay, Robert, all right. Robert, everyone will get it after sometime however you do your intro, but anyway, Robert is going to be taking over the show. I guess for this episode what we’re going to do is I’m going to interview Robert and give him the keys to the castle so to speak. He’s going to be the new host. I’m going to put him on the spot and hopefully you’ll see exactly why that I felt comfortable giving Robert control of Get Up and CODE and the legacy so he could carry this on. I’m actually really excited about this because it was a hard decision for me to say like to give up Get Up and CODE because we’ve helped a lot of people. It is something that I hate—I hate to kill something that has grown so much to something people are listening to. So hopefully you haven’t unsubscribed from your podcast. Welcome Robert! Robert:           Thanks John! I’m excited to be part of the show now. John:               Tell everyone a little bit just kind of about your background and who are you, where do you come from, what do you do? Robert:           Sure. Hi everyone. Basically I’m

This is the last episode of Get Up And Code. Thank you to all the guests, panelists, sponsors, and all the followers and listeners who supported the show from the beginning.Patreon (Donate to Get Up And Code) I’d really appreciate it if you could Rate Get Up and CODE on iTunes. Thanks! Full Transcript: Speaker 1:      Welcome to the Get Up and CODE Podcast with your host John Sonmez. The only podcast that combines fitness and programming and does it in less time than it takes to finish your workout. John:               Hey John Sonmez here and welcome to another episode, perhaps the last episode of Get Up and CODE. You might have seen the writing on the wall here. It might have been apparent to you. If you’ve been a listener of Get Up and CODE for a while you might have kind of figured out that things are winding down and the podcast might be coming to a halt. That’s definitely the case now. I’ve been evaluating this for a while. I’ve been trying to make things work when Iris Classon first left the show I thought about shutting it down there but I thought, “Okay, I can probably keep this going. I have some things to talk about. I can do lots of interviews and maybe get another co-host.” I never found the right person as another co-host and I haven’t given much time to the show as I would like. I’m glad that I’ve been able to keep it going for this long. It’s been over 2 years now so that’s pretty awesome, over 100, I don’t even know what episode number like 100 and something. I’ll have to check and see, 119 I think, is it where we’re at here? Oh no, this will be 110, so we’re ending on 110 here. This show itself is not something that is growing at this point. All of you loyal listeners I appreciate you supporting the show and listening for this long. The show is not growing. I feel like I don’t have a huge amount to contribute anymore. I think in the fitness space and the diet and—the health and fitness base and diets base there’s only so much good advice that you can give people and then that’s sort of it. Part of the reason why I started this show in the first place was I felt like there was a lot of hype out there. I felt like a lot of people were giving really bad diet and fitness advice, trying to s

In this episode of Get Up And Code, the panel talks about working out while traveling. This episode's panelists are Dean Radcliffe, Donn Felker, Jesse Taber and John Sonmez.   Patreon (Donate to Get Up And Code) I’d really appreciate it if you could Rate Get Up and CODE on iTunes. Thanks! Full Transcript: Speaker 1:      Welcome to the Get Up and CODE Podcast with your host John Sonmez. The only podcast that combines fitness and programming and does it in less time than it takes to finish your workout. John:               Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Get Up and CODE. I’ve got the panel here today. We’ve got a new member joining us. We’ve been trying to figure out the—this obviously new format here so obviously if you’ve been listening to Get Up and CODE you know who I am. I’m John Sonmez and I will let everyone else on the panel introduce yourselves so go ahead. Jesse:               I’m Jesse Taber from Tallahassee, Florida and I’m primarily a C# developer. Donn:              I’m Donn Felker from East Coast New Jersey and primarily an Android developer. Dean:              Cool. I’m Dean Radcliffe from Chicago, Illinois. I am a JavaScript developer doing Meteor.js and amateur triathlete. John:               Awesome. All right. Today our topic we’re going to talk about is traveling, working out while traveling. This is an interesting topic. We’ve talked about it a little bit before on Get Up and CODE and I know my opinion has changed about it. Donn:              John, didn’t you say at one point recently that when you were traveling one place at some point you just have to treat it as damage control at some level if there’s certain things happening in your life? What did you say? Do you remember that? John:               Yeah, yeah, and I think that’s true. That point I think has not really changed so much as I’ve been traveling. I’ve been in—just for background I’ve been traveling around Europe for about 3-1/2 months with my family. I’m actually going back to the States tomorrow. One of the things that I’ve found from doing traveling in the past and especially in this trip is the first most impo

In this episode of Get Up And Code, the panel talks about fitness fads and scams. This episode's panelists are Donn Felker, Jesse Taber and John Sonmez.   Patreon (Donate to Get Up And Code) I’d really appreciate it if you could Rate Get Up and CODE on iTunes. Thanks! Full Transcript: Speaker 1:      Welcome to the Get Up and CODE Podcast with your host John Sonmez. The only podcast that combines fitness and programming and does it in less time than it takes to finish your workout. John:               Hey everyone, welcome back to Get Up and CODE. We have our panel today and if you’ve been listening to Get Up and CODE and you haven’t heard we are now moving to a panel show so it’s not just me boring you. Now you’ll have more people hopefully not boring you because hopefully we’ll have some more interesting conversations. Today we’ve got Jesse Taber who you all should know and the new panelist Donn Felker. Donn, welcome and thanks for coming on to the panel. Donn:              Yeah, no problem. Thanks for inviting me on. I appreciate it. John:               Yeah, I guess—we still have to figure out the exact format of this like how we’re going to do this, but we’re all kind of—panel seems like such a formal word like we’re going to interview like, I don’t know. Donn:              Like we’re on stage? John:               Mm-hmm. I thought probably it would be good to—we’re going to talk about today about fitness scams and fads kind of all that stuff but before we do that we should give Donn a chance to—why don’t you introduce yourself to everyone and kind of—we did this a couple of episodes ago. Jesse and Christopher did but Donn you haven’t had a chance to tell your origin story. Donn:              Sounds good, yeah. My name is Donn Felker and I guess I’ll start with the programming background here. I’ve been developing since the late 90s and then the 2000s. I kind of did a lot of dot net development. Right on 2008when the first android device came out I kind of embraced that quite heavily and just kind of got sucked into it by accident. Actually not many people were doing it. Since then I’ve been doing android development exc

In this episode of Get Up And Code, Jesse Taber and John Sonmez talk about injuries.   Patreon (Donate to Get Up And Code) I’d really appreciate it if you could Rate Get Up and CODE on iTunes. Thanks! Sponsored by Full Transcript: Speaker 1:      Welcome to the Get Up and CODE Podcast with your host John Sonmez. The only podcast that combines fitness and programming and does it in less time than it takes to finish your workout. John:               Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Get Up and CODE. I’m John Sonmez and I’m here with Jesse Taber and we are the panel today for Get Up and CODE, so welcome to this episode on injuries. Okay, so yeah, just me and Jesse here today. Are you still there Jesse? Jesse:               Yes, I am. John:               You were quiet I was like, I’ve given you the intro to speak and you’re quiet so. Jesse:               Oh, I might have been muted my bad. John:               Oh okay, I was wondering. Jesse:               Yeah, no I did. I did say something. I was muted. That’s my bad. Okay. Yes, I am here and we are going to talk about injuries, a pretty interesting topic. I think a topic that anyone who gets into any kind of training for any kind of considerable length of time or with any regularity is going to encounter and probably something that makes a lot of people quit or provides a pretty big setback. I know last week, John, you mentioned a pretty big injury you had had with tearing your pec way back when and how you kind of—you changed it up and decided to go a different direction in your training. Do you want to recap that really quick? John:               Oh sure, yeah. Yeah, I mean that was my biggest injury I guess is I tore my pec which was not fun. I had a complete tear so that means that it completely separated from the insertion point and it pretty much—and I never got it actually repaired, not surgically, so it’s still sort of messed up but I’ve worked through it. It definitely put me out. It’s interesting. I mean with that injury I had to—I couldn’t even do like bench the bar when I first started lifting again, that’s after it

In this episode of Get Up And Code, I introduce the panel show. This episode's panelists are Chris Reed, Jesse Taber, and John Sonmez. Patreon (Donate to Get Up And Code)I’d really appreciate it if you could Rate Get Up and CODE on iTunes. Thanks!Sponsored byFull Transcript:Speaker 1:      Welcome to the Get Up and CODE Podcast with your host John Sonmez. The only podcast that combines fitness and programming and does it in less time than it takes to finish your workout.John:               Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Get Up and CODE. I am your no longer host John Sonmez but a panelist, a fellow panelist. I’ve talked about this for a while and I’m opening up the show to become more of a panel show. I’ve talked about everything I can talk about by myself about fitness and health and I need some help and some fresh ideas and some discussion points. I’ve basically turned the show into a panel show now so we’ll see how this goes.Today we’ve got Jesse Taber and Chris Reed. Both of them have been on the show before and yeah, so we’re going to be discussing—well, this show I think—episode we’ll just be talking about what we’re going to do I guess what is a panel show, what does this mean and some introductions to get to know us. Welcome guys. Thanks for doing the—for being part of the panel.Chris:              Glad to be here, thanks.Jesse:               Yeah, ditto.John:               So everyone knows who I am, who I is but maybe if you guys want to give introductions and …Chris:              Jesse, go ahead.Jesse:               Sure. All right, I’ll go first. My name is Jesse Taber. I’m in Tallahassee, Florida. I am a software developer. I work primarily in dot net using C#. That’s the programmer side of me. As far as the fitness side, I train in powerlifting and have been using that as a means to get more fit and lose weight over the last year or so. That’s what I’ve been on the show talking about in the past and that’s my area of interest.Chris:              My name is Christopher Reed I was on the episode a couple of times as Marathon Dad. I do long distance running and let’s see, I just started this week, getting back into weight lifting and cycling because the summer is rapidly running out and I

In this episode of Get Up And Code, I talk to Adrian Rosebrock about CrossFit. Patreon (Donate to Get Up And Code)I’d really appreciate it if you could Rate Get Up and CODE on iTunes. Thanks!Sponsored byFull Transcript:Speaker 1:      Welcome to the Get Up and CODE Podcast with your host John Sonmez. The only podcast that combines fitness and programming and does it in less time than it takes to finish your workout.John:               Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Get Up and CODE. I finally have a guest on the show. I know you’ve been tired of hearing me ramble on about whatever I’m talking about as I’m traveling through Europe. This is going to be an interesting one. I have a buddy of mine who—Adrian who I’m in the Mastermind group with and he happens to be a CrossFitter and training for—doing some pretty interesting training for CrossFit. I thought this would be interesting. If you’ve been listening to some episodes of Get Up and CODE you know that I’ve been kind of not so sure about CrossFit but I’m open and willing to try it so I thought of brining Adrian on and just talk about CrossFit in general and what he’s been doing, so welcome to Get Up and CODE Adrian.Guest:             Oh thank you John. It’s great to be here.John:               Why don’t you give a little, yeah, short intro about yourself.Guest:             Yeah. I work in computer science. I have a PhD in computer science with a focus in computer vision and machine learning. I basically write code that enables computers to understand the contents of an image. The last time you uploaded a profile picture to Facebook it was probably able to not only detect the presence of your face but it was also most likely able to recognize you and tag you in the image. That’s a form of face recognition, face detection and it’s a really good example of how computer vision is being used in the real world. Computer vision is around you whether you realize it or not and it’s used for surveillance, for security reasons, for nabbing your license plate when you’re speeding too fast on the highway and even in Facebook and Twitter.That’s a type of software that I develop but I’m also a very, very active person in the fitness world. I love fitness and I love staying active and I truthfully believe that if I was not active an

In this episode of Get Up And Code, I talk about how to look good and getting bang for the buck. Patreon (Donate to Get Up And Code)I’d really appreciate it if you could Rate Get Up and CODE on iTunes. Thanks!Sponsored by http://zephyragile.comFull Transcript:Speaker 1:      Welcome to the Get Up and CODE Podcast with your host John Sonmez. The only podcast that combines fitness and programming and does it in less time than it takes to finish your workout.John:               Hey welcome back to another episode of Get Up and CODE. I thought I’d do a quick episode this week. I’m still in Amsterdam here and I’ve actually gotten to the gym so I’m actually lifting again here which is good, feeling good about that. Still need to get back into the running, haven’t run in a while here, but hey, everyday that you are able to make forward progress is a good day. A lot of times it’s more about damage control than it is about moving forward. I’ve definitely learned that on this trip and I’ve definitely been trying to remember that. It’s one of the hardest things for sure is to remember that sometimes damage control is the best, it’s the most effective thing in a lot of areas of your life. If you can be good at that that’s often times more important than excelling which happens less frequently. All the time we have the opportunity to mess up big and those big mess ups are what ends up really hurting you.Anyway, so I thought for this episode what I would talk about real quickly is what will make you look good, the best bang for your buck. I don’t know about you, but I think a lot of people that get into lifting weights and fitness and stuff do it for aesthetics. Now, not all of us will admit it, but I definitely do. I lift weights and run and eat healthy because I want to be healthy but mostly because I want to look good. It makes me feel better. It’s a confidence booster and I just want to look good.Anyway, I thought I would give you the kind of things that you can do that are going to give you the most bang for your buck whether you’re male or female. I’ll kind of divide that up a little bit here but—so let’s talk about guys first since I know the most about that.For guys the best thing that you can probably do is going to be to build up your chest. That’s probably going to be the most noticeable thing. I think most guys in the gym

In this episode of Get Up And Code, I talk about bulking and cutting.Patreon (Donate to Get Up And Code)I’d really appreciate it if you could Rate Get Up and CODE on iTunes. Thanks!Sponsored by http://zephyragile.comFull Transcript:Speaker 1:      Welcome to the Get Up and CODE Podcast with your host John Sonmez. The only podcast that combines fitness and programming and does it in less time than it takes to finish your workout.John:               Hey, welcome back to another episode of Get Up and CODE. Today I’m going to be talking about bulking and cutting. I’ve talked about this a little bit before but I’ve been getting a lot of questions around this and I thought I’d give kind of my recommendations of when you should do them and what exactly they are and some of the things—pitfalls that you might run into when trying to do this.Before we get into that though I want to give you a little bit of an update here. This will be a little bit time shifted here since I am travelling and I’m trying to get a couple of episodes recorded ahead of time, but I’m in Amsterdam now. If you’ve been following my progress from when I first left for Paris and then went to Berlin and then I just had a short stay in Bruges but I am in Amsterdam—or Ireland, I totally forgot Ireland. Anyway, I had basically been lifting in Berlin, found a gym there that was great. I got a gym membership in Ireland as well and kept up with that and running pretty well. I got really sick at the end of my Ireland trip and then didn’t really do anything in Bruges. I was only there for 3 days.Now I’m in Amsterdam and I still haven’t gotten back into it yet. Had a lot of rain and storms here so I need to get back into it, get that motivation going again. It’s only been really about a week, but I feel bad already not lifting, not running but I’m going to try tomorrow morning to get out there and get to a gym and get a membership going.One of the things I’ve kind of iterated on this—reiterated I guess on this whole trip is just this learning that you’ve got to make the most of it and it’s never going to be perfect especially when you’re travelling but you can’t just let everything slip. Whatever you can do to keep things going, to keep your situation improving or at least to reduce the damage that you do the better it is. That’s kind of what I’m operating in. I realiz

In this episode of Get Up And Code, I talk about routines and how to split them up.Patreon (Donate to Get Up And Code)I’d really appreciate it if you could Rate Get Up and CODE on iTunes. Thanks!Sponsored by http://zephyragile.comFull Transcript:Speaker 1:      Welcome to the Get Up and CODE Podcast with your host John Sonmez. The only podcast that combines fitness and programming and does it in less time than it takes to finish your workout.John:               Hey, welcome to another episode of Get Up and CODE. This will be episode 102 and in this episode I thought I would talk to you a little bit about routines and how to split them up and whether or not it’s better to do a full body routine or a split routine when you’re lifting weights. I know this has been a topic of some confusion for a lot of people out there so I thought I’d try to clarify what are the differences and when you might do one or the other and the drawbacks and tradeoffs and what people are saying. This is definitely something that’s highly debated for a long time. Even a lot of professional bodybuilders had debated this for a while although I think most professional bodybuilders today are probably doing split routines.Before we get into that also just wanted to give you an update, I am still in Ireland here at the time of recording this. By the time you’re listening to it I won’t be. I should be probably in Amsterdam but I’ve been sick the last few days but I wanted to give you an update on what I’ve been doing here.I’ve had a lot of success with getting a gym membership in Ireland while I’ve been here. I’ve been working out pretty much every other day hitting the gym doing actually full body workouts in fact that’s why I thought to talk about this episode topic was because this is something different for me. I’ve been doing split routines for a very, very long time. But I’ve been having a lot of success. It’s been working out really well. I’m finally getting into that routine of running and lifting even though I’m traveling. It’s definitely difficult and there’s going to be some disruption here as I’m going to be heading on an airplane to go to Bruges for a few days before I hit Amsterdam but I will try to make sure that I get back on it and just do the best that I can is what I’m learning on this trip.Anyway, let’s discuss basically what is the di

In this episode of Get Up And Code, I talk to Charlie Olson about The WiMP Competition (Wirld's Mightiest Programmer).Patreon (Donate to Get Up And Code)I’d really appreciate it if you could Rate Get Up and CODE on iTunes. Thanks!Sponsored by http://www.getzephyr.com/Full Transcript:Speaker 1:      Welcome to the Get Up and CODE Podcast with your host John Sonmez. The only podcast that combines fitness and programming and does it in less time than it takes to finish your workout.John:               Hey everyone, welcome back to Get Up and CODE. I’m your host John Sonmez and today I have a really interesting guest Charlie Olson who is basically someone who has set up a strongman competition for programmers and we’ll talk about that in a little bit here but before I do get into that I do want to take a chance to thank the sponsor for this podcast which is now Zephyr. If you’re not familiar with Zephyr they’re a great test management solution. They’re really involved in Agile community in general. You can actually download Zephyr’s free community edition which is good for up to 10 users which can help you to manage your tests, to do test management. It integrates with JIRA. It’s just got a lot of really good features in there. I’ve used it myself. You can get that at zephyragile.com, that’s Zephyr, zephyragile.com.Anyway, thanks to Zephyr and without further ado I’d like to welcome Charlie Olson to the show. Welcome Charlie.Charlie:           Hi, glad to be here.John:               Charlie, tell everyone a little bit about yourself and your background.Charlie:           Currently I’m a tech engineer or software engineer at Raven Studios in Madison, subsidiary of Activision and I guess one of the World’s Mightiest Programmer Competition started out over at Human Head Studios also in Madison so my background is in video games primarily and web development also, but currently I’m in video games.John:               That’s cool. I always wanted to get involved in video game development. What is it like? What languages do you program in and what games have you worked on?Charlie:           Right now I’m working on Call of Duty Online in China. It’s not available in the United States. It’s a PC only thing. It’s pretty huge but we use—so we’re using Call of D

In this 100th episode of Get Up And Code, I talk about some of the things that I’ve learned over time.Patreon (Donate to Get Up And Code)I’d really appreciate it if you could Rate Get Up and CODE on iTunes. Thanks!Sponsored by http://www.getzephyr.com/Full Transcript:Speaker 1:      Welcome to the Get Up and CODE Podcast with your host John Sonmez. The only podcast that combines fitness and programming and does it in less time than it takes to finish your workout.John:               Hey welcome back to Get Up and CODE. I’m your host John Sonmez and this is actually a very special episode because this episode 100 of the Get Up and CODE Podcast. I can’t believe it’s already been 100 episodes. Seems like just not too long ago when I was starting this podcast and now there’s 100 episodes out. That just amazes me.I was trying to think about what to do for this hundredth special episode and I wanted to do something spectacular but I am travelling right now and it’s hard to plan this out so much so I couldn’t get any kind of spectacular guest lined up and I had some other plans but those fell through as well. What I decided to do for this episode is to basically talk about the things that I’ve learned while doing this podcast, the Get Up and CODE Podcast. Over time my views have changed, I’ve learned a lot of things from doing this podcast from just my fitness journey and I wanted to share with you some of the things that I’ve been in, some of the episodes and just some of the things that I found were the most valuable lessons that I’ve learned over the past couple of years here doing Get Up and CODE.Before I do that though I do want to take a second to thank the sponsor for this podcast which is Zephyr. If you are interested in testing, test management you definitely want to check Zephyr out. In fact, they just launched a new mobile app and it’s really, really pretty cool. Zephyr has always been a big supporter of everything that I’ve been doing with Simple Programmer and now with Get UP and CODE so you can check out Zephyr, this mobile app and their enterprise edition, the Zephyr Enterprise Edition 4.7 actually basically is free or rather the Community Edition is free and then you can check out the Enterprise Edition, but really, really good set of applications for doing test management and the pricing is really reasonable. Like I said, the community

In this episode of Get Up And Code, Jesse Taber and I talk about stereotypes.Patreon (Donate to Get Up And Code)I’d really appreciate it if you could Rate Get Up and CODE on iTunes. Thanks!Sponsored by http://www.getzephyr.com/Full Transcript:Speaker 1:      Welcome to the Get Up and CODE Podcast with your host John Sonmez. The only podcast that combines fitness and programming and does it in less time than it takes to finish your workout.John:               Hey everyone, welcome back to Get Up and CODE. This is—I believe this is going to be episode number 99 so we’re coming up on that big 100. I can’t believe it’s been so long doing this podcast, almost entirely consistently or every week here. Today I have Jesse Taber back on the podcast and he’s going to facilitate a discussion. Actually we’re going to talk about stereotyping. We talked about this once before on Get Up and CODE but I thought this was an interesting topic and this is something that has been changing. I was talking to Jesse and he’s got some insights from a conference from a Build Conference this year that he went to, some of that being an interesting topic to talk about. I’m also curious to get your input. I’m thinking about opening up Get Up and CODE to be sort of like a panel discussion maybe. I’m also—not only am I looking for input, if you want to email me at show@getupandcode.com but I’m also looking for potential panelists and then the idea would be we’d record at a certain time everyday, every week or every week and whoever shows up shows up and yeah. So let me know what your thoughts are. Email me at show@getupandcode.com.All right, before we get into it I do need to take a second to thank the sponsor for this podcast which is Zephyr. Zephyr is a long time supporter of Simple Programmer then a really big supporter of everything that I’ve been doing. They have one of the best test software suites out there right now. If you are interested, if you’re in the testing environment and you’re interested in checking them out go check them out at www.getzephyr.com. I think you’ll find a lot of their tools very valuable, very useful for managing your tests for doing test automation and all kinds of things. They’re even expanding into the development side as well. Check them out at www.getzephyr.com.All right, with all that said welcome back to the podcast Jesse.

In this episode of Get Up And Code, my wife Heather answers some questions.Patreon (Donate to Get Up And Code)I’d really appreciate it if you could Rate Get Up and CODE on iTunes. Thanks!Sponsored by  http://www.getzephyr.com/Full Transcript:Speaker 1:      Welcome to the Get Up and CODE Podcast with your host John Sonmez. The only podcast that combines fitness and programming and does it in less time than it takes to finish your workout.John:               Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Get Up and CODE. I’m your host John Sonmez and today I have a very special episode. I have my wife Heather here and she’s going to be forced to answer some questions. Before we get into the interview with my wife I do want to take a second to thank our new sponsor for this podcast which is Zephyr. If you’ve been following Simple Programmer for a while you’ve probably seen Zephyr show up more than once. They’ve been a very helpful sponsor for Simple Programmer and supported everything that I’ve done with Simple Programmer. I definitely encourage you to check them out if you go to www.getzephyr.com. They have some of the best test management tools out there and I really recommend them. they have really good tools that can really help you to integrate with automation, with JIRA and manage your test, they’re also a big supporter in the Agile environment in the community and also in the development community. So definitely check them out at www.getzephyr.com and yeah.Okay, so now comes to the good part here. I thought maybe we’d bring heather on so that she could give you the real scoop behind Simple Programmer and Get Up and CODE and to determine whether or not I’m crazy. Welcome to the show, Heather.Heather:         Thanks.John:               I guess the first question that everyone probably wants to know is whether or not with me not eating until 5 o’clock everyday and doing all kinds of crazy things just how crazy am I?Heather:         Well, I would say pretty crazy. The not eating until 5 o’clock I guess you started at the end of last year. That’s just kind of the new thing. As long as we’ve been together so I guess that will be 14 years this year there’s always something new that John is doing, some crazy diet whether it’s no carbs or not eating until 5 or I don’t know. What other crazy things

In this episode of Get Up And Code, I give you an update on my European tour.Patreon (Donate to Get Up And Code)I’d really appreciate it if you could Rate Get Up and CODE on iTunes. Thanks!Full Transcript:Speaker 1:      Welcome to the Get Up and CODE Podcast with your host John Sonmez. The only podcast that combines fitness and programming and does it in less time than it takes to finish your workout.John:               Hey John Sonmez here, welcome back to another episode of Get Up and CODE. It’s just me this week. I am trying to set up some interviews. I should have some coming here. So, if you are bored of just hearing me talk don't worry there are some interviews coming. It's a little bit hard to set up interviews when I'm travelling and really working one day a week while I'm here in Europe, but I will be getting some interviews.I'm going to do a topic today that I'm going to briefly touch on. I might go into more detail later but I thought this was something I've never talked about that a lot of people have confusion about which is the different types of protein powders and different types of protein in general. If you are trying to gain some muscle or trying to supplement your protein intake there is a lot of options out there and I think there’s some confusion about those. So I thought that would make a pretty good episode.Before I get into that though, I want to give you a couple of updates here. So, you'll notice that this podcast episode is not sponsored by SignalLeaf and unfortunately the reason why is because my good buddy who has been running SignalLeaf for such a long time and hosting Get Up and CODE on SignalLeaf Derrick Bailey has decided to shutdown SignalLeaf just because he has got other things going on and it just was not turning enough profit for him. So SignalLeaf is a really great service. I'm sad to see it go but I definitely supported him in his decision to shut that down because it made sense. He is doing some other things. I'll give him a free plug if you go to watchmecode.com you can check out his videos. He’s doing a lot of java script videos there and doing some very cool stuff with that, so yeah. So sad to see SignalLeaf go but Get Up and CODE will live on.I believe, by the time you’re listening to this it might be moved over, I've got to move over the episodes and everything to Libsyn. It might still be—I think SignalLeaf will still b