Are there any specific podcast or webcast episodes that you keep going back to?

Question

Every now and then I go back and listen to a couple of specific podcast episodes to hear their message(s) again.

1. Ken Schwaber's excellent "Intro to Scrum" podcast at IT Conversations.
2. Peter Coffee's Agile 2006 Keynote speech about his four essential books and how they relate to the Agile Manifesto over at the Agile Toolkit Podcast.

In addition, there is Martin Fowler and Dan North's excellent webcast on the communication gap existing between the developers and the customers or users over at InfoQ.

I'm actually listening to the Peter Coffee talk right now and that is what got me thinking and what inspired my question.

So, does anybody have specific podcasts or webcasts that they go back to regularly?

TIA and 'Appy 'einekin!

cheers,

Rob

Answer 1

Guy Steele and Richard Gabriel performing the "50 in 50" presentation at OOPSLA 2007 is chock full of tidbits and in jokes from the first 50 years of computer programming. (It's similar to the old geek test web site; digging up the background to "get" all the jokes and references almost constitutes a graduate-level course!)

Their repeat performance at JAOO 2008 was captured on video.

If you don't mind video, Guy Steele's "Growing a language" is outstanding.

All of the above are worth a review now and then, both for the fun of it and as a refresher of the deep ideas hidden below the surface.