Hello!
When I decided to move to Canada, I thought that I would live all day locked up inside my house shoveling snow and running away from bears. Because of this, I added to my list of my community activities: “record a podcast“. I never tried this so and seemed like a great time to learn about this sharing format.
At the end, I found a much friendlier climate and also a great country with amazing very warming people. Everyone helped me to move ahead with my idea of the podcast. Today, nine months after the publication of the 1st episode, I think it is a great time to share some lessons learned along the way.
Hardware
- After recording a couple of episodes using a “classic Skype Conferences” headset, I decided to invest in a higher quality microphone. I was lucky to find a deal at Amazon with the Blue Yeti Microphone (Link). As a USB microphone, it is an excellent choice.
- The ideal complement to this microphone are Bose Noise Cancellation headphones. I have the previous model at this (link) and the truth is that it is one of the best purchase that I have made (Thanks Ramon!).
Recording and Editing
- The is an important topic. I started using Camtasia for this, and I think I have improved enough until a decent podcast quality. I also wrote a small Tutorial on How to record and edit podcasts with Camtasia (link)
- During the first episodes, I used to take notes directly in OneNote. This means that while we were having a conversation, I started to type like a boring monkey. The problem with this, is that the sound of the keyboard was also included in the podcast with high background noise.
- After testing some edition filters and several different keyboards, I decided to go back to an abandoned item: pen and paper. After this, the “background noises” in the podcast, have been almost reduced to zero.
- Also, after recording it, each podcast requires some editing time. In the next image you can see “rests” which I add a podcast to eliminate background noise.
- I have not measured in detail, however the formula for time spent editing for podcast is required recording time (RT) and 1.5 edition time (ET). As a sample
- A 30-minute recording will require 45 minutes of editing
- A 60-minute recording will require 90-minute Edition
- After listening “La Órbita de Endor” some time in iVoox (link), I liked the platform. I know that there are many more, but iVoox think that it meets and exceeds the target of my podcast.
Podcasts Contents
- The name of the podcast is “No Tiene Nombre” (translation: without a name). I choose this name after running 10 KM at -10ºC and I must confess this day I didn’t have enough lights to think in a much more cooler name.
- My original idea was that the podcast will not last more than 30 minutes. Today I have to “cut” the sessions when we arrive at 60 minutes. The guests are amazing, we can speak a lot, I mean really a lot.
- The format has always tried to be “relaxed”. My best talks about technology, always had taking place sharing a coffee or a beer with friends. My idea is to bring this kind of talks to the podcast.
- I have been lucky enough to be able to choose the topics of the podcast. Topics have always been on which I wanted to learn a little more, or topics on which I thought I could contribute something.
- Sometimes, I have contacted on Twitter to ask me to talk about some issues. Cases of .Net Core, functional programming and Server less computing, I think they are an excellent example of this.
- More downloaded episodes are those who play the most popular as Micro Services, Xamarin or Git topics. Top 5 more Downloaded episodes are (no particular order)
- NTN 04 – Todas las novedades de #Xamarin de los últimos meses (leíste bien, TODAS!)
- NTN 06 – Introducción a Microservicios
- NTN 15 – Yo solo te pedí un Platano (una opinión sobre el estado de la programación FrontEnd en el día de hoy)
- NTN 13 – Por qué odio Git
- NTN 16 – Clean Code: buenas prácticas, algunas experiencias y un de risas
Podcast and Guests speakers
- The guests speakers topic requires a particular post. The truth is that people have joined right away and I have been fortunate to have excellent professionals and also great friends.
- This is the list of people who have participated. Surely I forget someone, and in that case will then update it!
- Francisco Javier Fernández Piatek
- Marcelo Villacorta Moreno
- Luis Fraile, @lfraile
- Matias Iacono, @matiasiacono
- Eugenio Serrano, @eugenioserrano
- Leonardo Micheloni, @leomicheloni
- Braulio Diez Botella, @braulio_sl
- Javier Suarez, @jsuarezruiz
- Josue Yeray, @JosueYeray
- Pedro Molina, @pmolinam
- Jorge Canton, @jorge_magic
- Jose Saturnino Pimentel, @SaturPimentel
- Nicolas Herrera, @nicolocodev
- Fernando Escolar, @fernandoescolar
- Julio Avellaneda, @julitogtu
- Quique Fdez Guerra, @ckgrafico
- Omar del Valle, @omarvr72
- Jordi, @jbmi9001
- Lluis Franco, @lluisfranco
- Pablo Escribano, @_pabloescribano
- JuanMa, @gulnor
- Juan Luis Guerrero, @JuanLuElGuerre
- Eduardo Del Pozo
- Juan Carlos Quijano, @jc_quijano
- Juan De Miguel
- Roya Chang, @RoyaChang
- David Rodriguez, @davidjrh
- I maybe also forget some place here. Until today I have spoken with people in
- Spain
- Andorra
- England
- Bolivia
- Colombia
- Mexico
- Argentina
- And in the coming days I will add
- Uruguay, recorded podcast and publish it soon!
- Peru, pending work for the coming week!
Podcast, Episodes
Until the day of today, this is the list of podcasts published in No Tiene Nombre (link)
- NTN 24 – Serverless computing, Azure Functions, Amazon Lambda y más Publicado el 14/12/2016
- NTN 23 – Informatica para niños (… esa excusa para que juguemos los mayores) Publicado el 07/12/2016
- NTN 22 – Connect2016: Google, Linux, .Net Foundation, Samsung TVs, Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio for Mac y más ! Publicado el 28/11/2016
- NTN 21 – Agile en las empresas, y otro par de historias interesantes Publicado el 18/11/2016
- NTN 20 – Un poco de historia sobre Azure y claro, terminamos hablando hablando de MicroServicios Publicado el 01/11/2016
- NTN 19 – Sobre Arquitecturas, diseños, MicroServicios y ser un poco realistas (con 40º de fiebre que siempre ayuda!) Publicado el 24/10/2016
- NTN 18 – Tableros digitales vs físicos, un poco de ALM, la regla de las 2 pizzas de Jeff Bezos y más Publicado el 10/10/2016
- NTN 17 – Experiencias organizando un evento para la comunidad técnica (Geek-A-Palooza Andorra !) Publicado el 04/10/2016
- NTN 16 – Clean Code: buenas prácticas, algunas experiencias y un de risas Publicado el 26/09/2016
- NTN 15 – Yo solo te pedí un Platano (una opinión sobre el estado de la programación FrontEnd en el día de hoy) Publicado el 20/09/2016
- NTN 14 – Novedades en .NET Core y ASP.Net Core Publicado el 06/09/2016
- NTN 13 – Por qué odio Git Publicado el 30/08/2016
- NTN 12 – Novedades de Windows 10 Anniversary Update para Hololens y Windows 10 IoT Core Publicado el 16/08/2016
- NTN 11 – Introducción la programacion funcional y F# (Bonus: Un poco de Open Source, F# para C# Devs y Cross platform) Publicado el 11/08/2016
- NTN 10 – Creando aplicaciones para Microsoft Band Publicado el 01/08/2016
- NTN 09 – Wave Engine, Hololens y el ataque de un oso Publicado el 28/06/2016
- NTN 08 – Introducción a Contenedores o Containers o el famoso Docker Publicado el 22/06/2016
- NTN 07 – Emprendedores y la nube, algunas experiencias, opiniones y más Publicado el 03/06/2016
- NTN 06 – Introducción a Microservicios Publicado el 27/05/2016
- NTN 05 – Primeras experiencias con Hololens Publicado el 11/05/2016
- NTN 04 – Todas las novedades de #Xamarin de los últimos meses (leíste bien, TODAS!) Publicado el 01/05/2016
- NTN 03 – Arduinos, Azure, Spectrum y los inicios en la programación de varios amigos Publicado el 11/04/2016
- NTN 02 – ALM con Visual Studio, desarrollo en Cloud y novedades antes de Build 2016 Publicado el 04/04/2016
- NTN 01 – Windows 10, Raspberry Pi, Visual Studio 2015 y Karts Publicado el 21/03/2016
Greetings @ Toronto
-El Bruno
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