Callcast - Discussion with Eric Florenzano

This week's callcast features the seemingly always busy, and always productive Eric Florenzano. Eric is a cool cat who is very active in the django community. After recently graduating from Iowa State University, Eric is soon off to Japan for a 2 week holiday and then on to San Francisco for his new full-time position as Software Engineer at MochiMedia. He's currently working on django source code ticket #6095 - adding the ability to manually create M2M intermediary models. We talked django, reusable apps, git, model inheritance, django for noobs, and well... a lot of stuff actually. As always, I'm looking for feedback on these callcasts - tips and suggestions are always welcome. Follow the jump to read more...

Download mp3 (17.7mb): HowIWorkDaily - Discussion with Eric Florenzano

I'm not sure exactly where I stumbled across Eric and his work, but I'd assume it was from the django community feed and a link to his blog where I came across his threaded-comments open source project. Eric's blog is a great resource and he seems to be an endless creator/contributor of open source django projects. It doesn't hurt that he's also a friendly fella to boot. If you listen to the excellent podcast - This Week in Django (co-hosted by Michael Trier and Brian Rosner) then you may already know Eric as he's frequently a guest or even sometimes a co-host.

I talked with Eric about where he is now, where he's going, what project he's working on, etc. We quickly got off track and into a Git discussion, then into reusable apps and how/why one should strive for reusable apps and what they are, then back to Eric's projects, and back to reusable apps again and forking codebase, etc. So yea, overall we kinda jump on and off its track. We also discuss getting started with django for noobs and I completely forgot Adrian Holovaty's name during our reference to "The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right" (sorry).

Learning this thing one episode at a time

One thing I've learned about these "callcasts" so far is that they're turning into more interview centric versus conversational, with the latter being my original goal. I'm not saying that's a bad thing as I could question Eric (and Ben from the first callcast) for hours. I also realize I start the conversation going one way and then end up interrupting Eric and taking the conversation in another direction (sorry Eric). So I have some stuff to learn here in this callcast domain. I think next time I'll focus on 2 to 3 specific topics and let it roll from there, and try to knock it down to 20 minutes max, which seems to be the sweet spot.

It's also obvious Eric has a podcast voice - clean and clear - and I don't. Shucks! I just happen to talk kinda fast — always have really but I'll try and work on that. Oh, and I need a new microphone - mine just isn't cutting it. You'll notice Eric sounds awesome. So there's that as well.

Anyway, the goal of these callcasts is to hopefully introduce readers/listeners to the people behind the projects and ideally kick start some discussions on topics that you may be thinking about yourself. Like I've mentioned before - any and all suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks Eric for your time! It was a pleasure.

Some of the items we discussed...

Comments are closed.

Sorry, comments have been close for this item.

Posted on: June 11, 08

callcast, eflo, ericflorenzano