Alfred is a productivity tool on the Mac OSX system that allows us to search for many things or perform various actions with just hot keys at hand. In this episode we will look at features such as find, search, calculator, contacts. As developers, we will also learn how to run shell scripts and even create/edit themes and workflows! Alfred certainly adds a tonne of fun in our daily workflow.

038 Alfred

Build Podcast is a show about technology tools for design and development. Each episode, Sayanee will be creating a screencast that will take you through step-by-step in using one tool to build a little project, all in the fun spirit of hacking, creating and building stuff!

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Swift is a new programming language developed by Apple. In this episode, we will go through some of the basic language attributes such as var, let, control flow, optionals, closures and class.

067 Swift

ES2015 is the next version of standardised JavaScript. In this episode, we will use Babel JS as the transpiler to code in ES2015. We will go through some features like const, let, map, set, array and string functions as well as promises. Refer to the book Exploring ES6 for an in-depth overview.

066 ES2015

Atom is a hackable text editor. In this episode, we will go through the various settings, packages, themes and also create a super simple package.

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064 Redis

Socket IO is a framework based on Web Sockets that enables real-time communication with duplex connection over TCP. In this episode, we will play with the technology Web Socket and learn how to emit and receive events from a server or client. Finally, we will explore Socket IO as a framework to detect emit, send, disconnect and broadcast events to multiple clients and server.

038 Alfred

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