For Love Of Code Episode #9 - Contractor: To be or Not to be

Chris and Tim talk about current news like the Apple WWDC 2020 version, the latest version of Angular is out,

and Amazons latest offering trying to put us out of business with Honeycode. The main topic is

about the joys and pains of being a contractor. The upside and downside of being a fulltime employee

and maybe as a business, is ok to hire contractors?

0:36 Tim is growning hair

1:50 Dusty skies are upon us

2:43 Apple WWDC 2020

8:12 AWS Honeycode building apps without programming

12:24 Angular 10 released

15:35 Github super linter

21:13 Fear driven development

24:10 Why testing?

30:47 Pros of being a contractor

36:46 Pros of being an employee

41:35 Downsides of being an employee

48:05 Downsides of being a contractor

52:01 Fixed cost vs Time and materials

57:34 Why hire a contractor

1:03:35 Cons of hiring a contractor

~ Articles discussed ~

Massive Saharan Dust Cloud Is Moving Across The US Turning Skies Strange Colors 

https://www.sciencealert.com/massive-saharan-dust-plume-will-bring-technicolor-sunsets-and-fewer-tropical-storms-to-the-us

2020 Worldwide Developers Conference

https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/wwdc/

AWS launches Amazon Honeycode, a no-code mobile and web app builder

https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/24/aws-launches-amazon-honeycode-a-no-code-mobile-and-web-app-builder/

Version 10 of Angular Now Available

https://blog.angular.io/version-10-of-angular-now-available-78960babd41

Introducing GitHub Super Linter: one linter to rule them all 

https://github.blog/2020-06-18-introducing-github-super-linter-one-linter-to-rule-them-all/

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