Build Podcast

By Sayanee

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What's Build Podcast about?

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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Build Podcast episodes:

04.09.2016
067 Swift
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.
03.06.2016
066 ES2015
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...
01.10.2016
065 Atom
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.
12.27.2015
064 Redis
in-memory data structure store
12.14.2014
063 Socket IO
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...
10.25.2014
062 Mocha
Mocha is a JavaScript testing library for node and browser. In this episode we will learn how to use mocha with the assertion library chai and use it with hooks, asynchronous test, various reporters and options. Finally we will also...
08.22.2014
061 Docker
Docker is a platform for distributed apps. We will learn how to create isolated environment for apps based on docker. We will create 2 simple apps with nginx and nodejs with various docker commands and see how we can replicate...
07.27.2014
060 Gulp
Gulp is a streaming build system. In this episode we will go through the basics of installing gulp with a few tasks as well as watching the tasks while we develop.
06.14.2014
059 Git Flow
Git Flow is a git branch model. In this episode, we will create a git repository and then add the git flow branching model to it. We will also explore how to start a feature, hotfix of a release with...
04.19.2014
058 RSpec
RSpec is a testing tool for ruby programming language. In this episode, we will explore some common features of testing ushc as matchers, hooks, factories for initialising data and stubs.
01.31.2014
057 Ghost
Ghost is a NodeJS based blogging platform. In this episode, we will explore how to run Ghost on ghost.org and our local machine, create the simplest theme possible to understand the structure of the blog, and finally host it ourself...
12.29.2013
056 AngularJS
AngularJS is a frontend JavaScript framework. In this episode we will build a tiny project to learn on how to implement controllers, hide or show certain sections of the dom, change styling conditionally all in the fun of building single-page-applications.
11.16.2013
055 Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a user-friendly linux distribution. In this episode, we will explore some very common Linux commands for file or text manipulation, networking, file compression in terminal, so that next time we come across a unix-like or linux-like operating system...
10.25.2013
054 D3JS
D3JS or data-driven documents is a powerful library to visualize data. In this episode we will learn how to display data using html and css, svg as well as external data in file formats such as json or csv. We...
10.19.2013
053 Command line apps
Command line apps provide automation, one time batch processing or even execute an app in the command line. In this episode we will see how we can create such apps in cli using a programming language of our choice such...
10.04.2013
052 Tmux
Tmux is a terminal multiplexer. We will explore how to create new sessions, windows and panes alone with various key bindings and configurations. Finally, we will also learn how to use Tmuxinator to create custom configurations for various projects.
09.27.2013
051 SVG
SVG or Scalable Vector Graphics is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML. In this episode, we will explore various ways to draw different shapes, filters and gradients with SVG ending off with a little addition of interactivity by...
09.06.2013
050 DOM
DOM or Document Object Model is a cross-platform and language-independent convention for representing and interacting with objects found in HTML. In this episode, we will explore traversing the DOM tree, adding/removing attributes/elements/style and also what is document fragments.
08.30.2013
049 CloudFlare
CloudFlare makes our websites secure and load faster. We can get started with it with just some simple DNS settings to host our pages from github, aws ec2 or even our own computer. In this episode, with CloudFlare's free plan...
07.21.2013
048 PhantomJS
PhantomJS is a headless Webkit. We can make use of it to do some website testing, screen capture, page automating and network monitoring. We will explore all these features of PhantomJS in this episode.
07.13.2013
047 Styleguide
Automatic living styleguide helps to create styleguides from documentation in our CSS styles. We will explore 2 tools KSS-Node and StyleDocco with CSS and CSS pre-processor, SASS along with its plugin in GruntJS build tool.
07.06.2013
046 Regex
Regular expressions or regex is a symbolic language to describe a pattern of characters so that we can match it with a required set. We can use regex pattern amtching across various programming languages to detect and match patterns as...
06.01.2013
045 Bower
Bower is a client-side package manager. We will explore how to install, uninstall, define dependencies as well as integrate the modules with RequireJS.
05.26.2013
044 Node
NodeJS is a V8 engine based event-driven I/O platform to build applications. In this episode we will explore the concepts of asynchronous, non-blocking programs along with how to schedule or delay the execution of a function with event loops and...
05.18.2013
043 SQL
SQL is a structured query language for databases. In this episode we will create a simple database on our Solar System planets and their moons. We will explore both a GUI Sequel Pro for viewing SQL as well as SQLfiddle,...
05.12.2013
042 BackboneJS
BackboneJS is a client-side MV* framework that will help us structure our code, provide templates to inject the data as well as render a fast changes UI with ajax. In this episode we will create a simple client-side reading list...
05.04.2013
041 Vim
Vim is an extension of Vi editor, a powerful text editor used with much configurations and customisations among developers. With many keystrokes and shortcuts, we can achieve enchanced productivity given the high learning curve. In this episode we will review...
04.28.2013
040 Sinatra
Sinatra is a simple domain-specific language that is minimalistic. In this episode, we will explore the basics of Sinatra such as routing, templates, sessions, errors with a simple project based on Prisoner's Dilemma!
04.20.2013
039 Vagrant
Vagrant creates reproducible, portable development environments that can be packaged and passed on to other developers to create an exact copy. In this episode, we will learn how to installed virtual machines with packages as well as view them in...
04.12.2013
038 Alfred
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,...
04.05.2013
037 Jekyll
Jekyll is a blog-aware, static site generator in Ruby. In this episode, we will install jekyll, setup a new blog and do some configurations as well as importing posts from a previous Wordpress and even hosting it on Github Pages.
03.22.2013
036 Apache
Apache is a popular open source http server that runs on many operating systems. We will go through some of the common config files and their settings on both Mac OSX and AWS EC2. Lastly, we will also go through...
03.15.2013
035 Capistrano
Capistrano is remote multi-server automation tool that is often used for deployment. In this episode, we will first learn how to execute command line tasks in several servers, then we will deploy a Github repo on a newly fired up...
02.22.2013
034 Lodash
Lodash is a utility belt JavaScript library. It is also a hard dependency for BackboneJS, as a drop-in replacement for UnderscoreJS with performance enhancement. In this episode we will create a simple project using some functions of Lodash along with...
02.16.2013
033 AWS
Amazon Web Services or AWS is a set of web based services by Amazon. We will use Elastic Cloud Compute to launch a simple html page as well as a hello world in NodeJS. Next, we will use Elastic Beanstalk...
02.01.2013
032 Travis CI
Travis CI is a hosted continuous integration platform fre for open source. In this episode, we will create 3 hello world projects on Sinatra (Ruby), Flask (Python) and NodeJS (JavaScript) and see how we can use Github and Travis CI...
01.26.2013
031 InuitCSS
Inuit.css is a powerful, scalable, Sass-based, BEM, OOCSS framework. In this episode, we will create a simple page on modern communication protocol used for Internet using the Inuit.css framework!
01.19.2013
030 Closure
Closure is a set of tools developed by Google and the Closure Compiler is part of it for JavaScript optimisation and minification. In this episode, we will take a simple JavaScript project about CSS colors and run it through the...
01.10.2013
029 Oh My ZSH
Oh My ZSH is a community driven project for managing zsh configuration. We will explore some functions of z-shell (zsh), iTerm and Oh My ZSH so that we can get to be a little more productive in our daily coding...
01.04.2013
028 API
API or application programming interface is a protocol to communicate with other software components. In the world of web API, content created in one place can be displayed or updated from another location in the web. In this episode, we...
12.28.2012
027 Yeoman
Yeoman serves to help us create a modern workflow for building modern applications. In this episode, we will create a little project on terminologies related to object-oriented programming (oop) that will help us explore the main features of Yeoman such...
12.21.2012
026 Modernizr
Modernizr is a library for detecting whether the user's browsers have certain features and based on the availability, we developers will trigger certain functions or styles. In this episode, we will take a simple slideshow and use both javascript and...
12.14.2012
025 VirtualBox
VirtualBox is an amazing tool where we can run different operating systems in our MAC OSX machines! In this episode, we will learn how to run a Windows 8, Arch and Ubuntu operating systems and run them in the same...
12.08.2012
024 Heroku
Heroku is an online platform where we can easily deploy and scale our applications. Whether we are looking to build an experimental app, or our app that we intend to scale up one day, Heroku is a great platform to...
11.24.2012
023 Rails
Ruby on Rails is an open source web application development framework that allows us to rapidly build web apps. In this episode, we will create a very simple todo application and go through some concepts such as query, db migration,...
11.17.2012
022 SSH
Secure Shell (SSH) is a program to securely log in to another computer over a network and execute commands in that machine. In this episode, we will look into how to generate keys, ssh configurations, secure copy, known hosts and...
11.09.2012
021 Gruntjs
GruntJS is tool task-based command line build tool for JavaScript projects. Automate your build tasks like concatenation, minification, linting, testing and many others with some simple configuration or even with some nifty GruntJS plugins!
11.02.2012
020 Nanoc
Nanoc is tool for building static web sites. Using a static site generator like Nanoc has some advantages such as speed, security and local development. In this episode, we will explore how to build a blog with Nanoc!
10.26.2012
019 Bash
Bash is a Unix shell and it is available by default in Linux and MAC. It is very useful as a developer to know shell scripting and we will explore how to automate tasks (shell scripting), set profile configurations (bash...
10.19.2012
018 Fireworks
If you are creating a hi-fidelity mockup for your web application, then Adobe Fireworks is a great software! We will build a little project to learn how to view CSS properties, build hover effects, insert html, rounded ractangles, styles and...

What's Build Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Build Podcast episodes:

067 Swift

066 ES2015

065 Atom

064 Redis

063 Socket IO

062 Mocha

061 Docker

060 Gulp

059 Git Flow

058 RSpec

057 Ghost

056 AngularJS

055 Ubuntu

054 D3JS

053 Command line apps

052 Tmux

051 SVG

050 DOM

049 CloudFlare

048 PhantomJS

047 Styleguide

046 Regex

045 Bower

044 Node

043 SQL

042 BackboneJS

041 Vim

040 Sinatra

039 Vagrant

038 Alfred

037 Jekyll

036 Apache

035 Capistrano

034 Lodash

033 AWS

032 Travis CI

031 InuitCSS

030 Closure

029 Oh My ZSH

028 API

027 Yeoman

026 Modernizr

025 VirtualBox

024 Heroku

023 Rails

022 SSH

021 Gruntjs

020 Nanoc

019 Bash

018 Fireworks