Build Podcast

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 as scaffolding, compiling into css and js, linting, starting a local web server, image optimisation and so much more!

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 css3 to make the transitions based on features available with libraries such as yepnope and html5shiv. Most importantly, we will scratch the surface of what is graceful degradation and progressive enhancement.

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 machine all in the spirit of exploring different philosophies and technologies of operating systems!

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 get start with. In this episode, we will deploy our previous Rails application and explore some features!

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, associations, routes, views and more!

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 even AWS login.

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!

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!

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 profile) and schedule tasks (cron job) - all in the name of efficiency!

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 more. At the same time we will get to review some of the common design principles and legends such as Dieter Rams.