Review: Deep Fried Bytes Podcast
Deep Fried Bytes
As previously noted, I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts recently, here’s my first review
Deep Fried Bytes is an audio talk show with a Southern flavor hosted by technologists and developers Keith Elder and Chris Woodruff. The show discusses a wide range of topics including application development, operating systems and technology in general. Anything is fair game if it plugs into the wall or takes a battery.
The first thing I’ll say about this podcast is that it’s fun! The goofy intro music and southern accents are a breath of fresh air, especially for me being over on this side of the pond.
Woody and Keith never seem short of questions to ask and usually keep their guests engaged, often making them work pretty hard to explain their points. They make a point asking their guests to back track a little, getting them to give their slant on an acronym or buzz word that they have used.
Considering I’m an open source advocate, I’ve been pleasantly surprised to have enjoyed all the .net topics that have come up. While Deep Fried Bytes wants to be a Technology Podcast, as Keith and Woody are both currently .net guys, lots of their discussions and guests are based around Microsoft technologies. I think of the 9 episodes so far, only episode 4 with Joe Stump of Digg fame, has not involved some sort of Microsoft employee or MVP. This may be enough to put some non-Microsoft fans off, but I’d advise against it. Like I said, the shows are very interesting, good fun and might even give someone like me a little insight on what it’s like on the Microsoft side of the fence.
Another thing worth mentioning, the podcasts usually have a sponsor, it currently plays for about 10 seconds part way through the cast, is fairly unobtrusive and isn’t annoying or aggravating.
Conclusion
Definitely worth a subscription, doubt you will be disappointed. 8/10
Tags: .net, deep fried bytes, podcast, review, software development
August 13th, 2008 at 4:56 am
Dave,
Thanks for the review. Very well thought out and I’m glad you are enjoying the show even though the topics might be in an unfamiliar territory at the moment. Just so you know, both Woody and I have an extensive background in open source software. I have no doubt we’ll be mixing things up as we progress. If you have anything in particular you think we should cover just drop us a line. We try to keep up with everything going on in technology land but sometimes we miss something every now and then.
Glad you are enjoying the show and thanks for helping spread the word.
-Keith
Deep Fried Bytes
BTW, did you know that Michael Kimsal who hosts WebDevRadio and I used to work together? As a matter of fact Michael, Joe Stump and myself were all throwing around PHP for clients. To further blow your mind, I hired Joe when he was just 19 or 20, small world huh?
August 13th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Hey Keith,
I’m familiar with both your backgrounds, maybe that’s why it’s easier to listen to you guys talking microsoft ;)
Didn’t know you’d been slinging PHP with Michael and Joe, that’s pretty cool.
Will put some thought into some questions and send them your way.
Dave
October 17th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
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