Get up and CODE!

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.com tutsplus.com lynda.com safaribooksonline.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.com tutsplus.com lynda.com safaribooksonline.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 advantages of being fit. Without further ado, let me introduce my guest for today's show. His name is Carlos Navarro. He's actually my younger brother, someone that I respect. As I said, he's also a software developer. I guess we took after our mother. She was a programmer back in the punch card era. Just to give you some quick trivia about that era that back then, a normal or a minute typing error generally necessitated the repunching of an entire card. If you could just imagine that. Now, we're so spoiled with the IDEs and the IntelliSense that is just—I can't even imagine how it used to be back then for those programmers. These programmers then, they also wrote older code in special forms called coding sheets that then they would have to hand off to a keypunch operator in order for that individual to convert them into punched cards. Let me go ahead and introduce Carlos Navarro. How are you feeling, Carlos? Carlos:             I'm feeling actually great today. Robert:           What brought you here besides my cooking? Carlos:             Well, I drove my vehicle and it's not too far from my house, but you always have to make a little joke here and there. Reality it’s the idea of refactoring my body because we always want to fix our code, improve our code and make it more efficient but we never think about our bodies that way. Our bodies are machines that we have to take care of to be able to produce good code and really focus on our task. Basically,

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 whatever they want to whenever they want to. Again, be that top cat, be the leader of your group. The way you become a top cat is you have to expose those hidden details in the vague software requirements and you also have to get everyone within your group, everyone within your team to communicate with you. The way you stimulate that communication is by prototyping. Prototyping is a method that I’ve used over the years and it’s a way for me to show my coworkers and show my client my understanding of those vague software requirements and it allows them to provide some feedback. The feedback that I get back from them basically allows me to really create the solutions that they actually need. By creating prototypes you are shortening a feedback loop and this feedback loop is a tool that you have to have in your arsenal that you have to analyze. The shorter it is the better because that means that you’ll be able to implement features quicker and make the client a lot happier. Again, prototyping shortens the feedback loop and it just exposes those hidden details that you need in order to successfully create working software. The other point I wanted to touch on is the fact that you sometimes have to deal with pushback and negativity in your workplace. As a person that likes to listen to podcasts, that likes to improve in different areas of your life, especially if you’re listening to this one here is because you have an interest in both fitness and improving your career.

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 naturallyfit.com. I will now be competing in the big leagues and I’m very honored to have been chosen. My hat goes off to the other competitors. We went to work and put everything on the line. I’ll go ahead and add a link of the video. It’s really cool how that moment was captured on video, so I want to be able to share that with you guys. I’ll go ahead and add it in the show notes, a very incredible experience. Okay, so I want to talk about the importance of taking before and after photos during your fitness transformation. I personally took some before photos, front and back shots 2 months before my latest competition. These photos were placed in a highly visible location where I could see them every morning and every night. My body fat was definitely not low enough to get on stage at that time. I believe it was around 10 to 12%. My abs and definitions were barely noticeable. The point that I’m trying to make is that you need to be aware of your current physical state and strive for improvement and having photos will help you do just that.  You have to be honest with yourself and accept that you might not be in the best physical shape you can achieve so I want to make this podcast all about helping you achieve your best body possible and live a fit life. You don’t have to be a competitor but wouldn’t you want to find out how would you look if you transformed your body? Trust me, you do, you do want to find out.

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 a dot net developer that’s doing a lot of frontend development nowadays mainly with SharePoint online but I got into fitness—took fitness seriously back in 2012 and so just to give a quick disclaimer, I’m not a nutritionist or a certified personal trainer, but I do have the experience of actively competing in natural body building and physique competitions. As a matter of fact I’ll be competing in one in less than 24 hours from this recording and I also like to share that it’s taken me a while but I’ve developed the mindset that has both helped me excel in my IT software development career and also reaching my fitness goals. Just a little bit more background, I started developing software professionally back in 2007. Before that I was working at a radio shack selling electronics while still going to college. I developed this passion and interest for weight lifting. As a radio shack salesman I had to stand on my feet for many hours so lifting weights definitely strengthened my legs and helped me withstand the long shifts. That was my first experience and seeing a benefit that lifting and being fit attributed to my professional success. It basically made me a more active and alert salesman. When I started my development career in 2007 I continued learning about weightlifting and nutrition. I even bought one of those many online programs that you find on the internet about nutrition and exercises, which exercises to perform in order to gain muscle or lose fat. So I learned both how to put on weight and lose weight.

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 sell you something, trying to make money off of gullibility and not telling the truth so I wanted to have an honest podcast that could help and motivate developers to really get in shape and to start thinking about fitness and thinking about their health and to not have to cut through all the BS that’s out there. That’s why I started the podcast. What it turns out is there’s not a whole lot beyond the basics. I mean you can talk about how to be healthy, how to eat a healthy diet, what foods are healthy, do some things like meal timing. You can talk about how to lift weights and how to exercise and how—the pros and cons of different things like that and supplements. There’s a list of topics. In 110 episodes the show has been going on we’ve covered a lot of those and covered some of them multiple times. I just don’t feel that I have a huge amount to contribute and I also feel like the panel although I think it was good and I appreciate everyone on the panel who joined the panel, I don’t feel like it’s really a great direction for the show and that it’s going to really stay in line with the original vision of the show. For that reason I think I’m going to go ahead and shut down Get Up and CODE. Now, I’ll leave the episodes up obviously. If someone wants to take over the show I would be willing to consider something like that. You can email me at john@simpleprogrammer.com but at this point there hasn’t really been much sponsorship for the show and it does cost money to o...

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 important thing is the damage control because like it’s really easy even just in a week’s time you can get—you can put on a large amount of weight. You can totally mess up your diet or your physique in just a short period of time. If you’re going for a long period of time the danger of not running or not lifting weights, you can not only damage all the progress that you made but you can break those habits which is pretty scary and dangerous, I think. I think just at a very minimum level I think the most important thing is like just to think of damage control. How can you—you know that you’re not going to be able to be perfect, but a lot of people have the tendency to fly off the rails as I call it where it’s like you’re just like, “Well, screw it, if I can’t be healthy or can’t eat my chicken breast then I’m just going to eat whatever” or “If I can’t workout then I’m just not even going to try. I’m just going to whatever and I’ll pick it up back later when I get home.” I think that’s the dangerous attitude to have because that’s where you take something that would be like a small misstep or small deviation from your plan and you suddenly like derail yourself in your going of off the rails in a totally different direction. Jesse:               Yeah. I think what happens is you get off the rails on that vacation or that trip or whatever it is and you just—you never get back on them. You get back home or wherever where you can and should reestablish that routine that got you to where you were in the first place but you just don’t because you let yourself get too far away from it.

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 exclusively for clients all over the country. I’ve written 4 books on android, I speak all over the country on it and so forth. I do that and I also consult for various different people that have web apps and training materials, so I do a whole bunch of different things in technology. Not just Android. I do a lot of Node.js stuff, some Rails, sometimes a Python so that’s kind of the technology background part of it. The fitness side of stuff is a little bit different. I kind of have been just into fitness overall since I was probably a teenager. I started just working out myself. I decided I didn’t want to just be on the couch and not be healthy the rest of my life. I saw a lot of people in my hometown which is a small town in Northern California getting sick, overweight and so forth so I just had the drive to not be that way and eventually got into racing motocross and after that kind of short career ended I moved around the country a little bit and just started going to the traditional gym for about, I don’t know, I’d probably say 10 years. After that I got into Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I did some Jiu Jitsu for a couple of years and then moved across the country again to Minneapolis. Actually in Arizona I started the Jiu Jitsu and moved up to Minneapolis and continued up there. Eventually one day I was working out and heard a bunch of noise in the other side of the wall and there was this weird gym in Minneapolis. It had Jiu Jitsu on one side and on the other side it was—actually it was Crossfit and I ended up trying Crossfit up in Minnesota and ended up liking it quite a bit.

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 had technically healed. I was basically starting over. I couldn’t do any dips. Now I’m back up there able to lift pretty heavy but it still affects me of course, but yeah. It’s interesting. There’s, I guess—so there’s 2 categories. There’s the major injuries and then there’s the minor injuries. Jesse:               Yeah, the nagging, the annoying little ones. John:               Exactly. Everyone, I think, I don’t know of anyone who doesn’t have a minor injury. I have multiple minor injuries that just I have all the time. You just can’t be lifting or running or exercising without having some kind of minor injury I don’t think. Jesse:               Yeah, I found—so I mentioned this last episode that Chris and I were sort of the opposite. We have opposite training stories. I used to try to run. I would do Couch to 5K. I kind of get on a kick where I’d be like, “Okay, I’m going to start running” I hate running but I’m going to get better at it. I’m just going to keep doing at it until I get better at it. We go okay for a little while and I make some progress and then something like my shins would bother me. I always had this really, really tough—I get these knots in the outside of my calf muscles when I was running and I would say, “Man, that’s—it just” it’s like if I ran for long enough and they’d get warmed up and then I’d feel great and then I can go for a long time, but getting to that point was really difficult. It was so painful and then after I stopped they would hurt for days after. I said, “Man, that’s really-” and start reading about—there’s no shortage o...

Get Up And Code 106: The Panel Show with Chris Reed, Jesse Taber and John Sonmez

Get Up And Code 105: CrossFit with Adrian Rosebrock

Get Up And Code 104: Looking Good, Getting Bang For The Buck

Get Up And Code 103: Bulking and Cutting

Get Up And Code 102: Talking About Routines