Developer Tea

Developer Tea

By Jonathan CutrellSociety & Culture Business Technology Careers

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November 25, 2015Listener Question: Jean-Michel Asks, "How Do You Know When It's Time To Lead A Team That Has No Leader?"
In today's episode, I respond to Jean-Michel's question about when it's time to step up and lead a team that currently has no leader.
Mentioned on today's episode (or otherwise relevant)
Spec Slack Community
Android and iOS
Leadership Skills of Socrates
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17 min
November 23, 2015Listener Question: Mark asks, "What's Happening to the Ruby Developer Community?"
What's happening to the Ruby community? Is it flailing, or doing just fine? Some evidence and simple logic says both are possible. Let's explore it a bit further in today's episode!
Mentioned in today's episode:
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
GitHub
GitHut.info
JavaScript
CSS
NodeJS
PHP
WordPress
Laravel
Java
Android
Python
GitHub blog post about language popularity
Avdi Grimm's discussion about the Soul of Software
Jeff Atwood explains "Why Ruby" for Discourse
Today's episode is sponsored by Hired.com! If you are a developer or a designer looking for a job, Hired is a fantastic place to begin your journey! The special link for a doubled bonus is https://hired.com/developertea.
And lastly...
Please take a moment and subscribe and review the show! Click here to review Developer Tea in iTunes.
21 min
November 20, 2015Makers Versus Menders with Andrea Goulet (@andreagoulet)
Today I talk with Andrea Goulet about software "makers and menders." Andrea is the CEO of CorgiBytes. Listen in if you are interested in refactoring and green field projects, and the difference between the two!
Mentioned on today's show:
@andreagoulet on Twitter
CorgiBytes
@CorgiBytes on Twitter
Makers versus Menders
Scott on Twitter (@mscottford)
GitHub
Refactoring to Patterns (Martin Fowler)
Michael Feathers
Arlo Belshee's process for naming things
"Practical Refactoring" video (~2 hours)
Slack
.Net Webforms
Exercism
"Adopting a growth mindset" - Carol Dweck Ted Talk
Today's episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean!
Go to https://digitalocean.com to get started on cloud hosting. Use the promo code DEVELOPER TEA at the checkout after you create your account to get a $10 credit!
Follow @DeveloperTea on Twitter | Leave a rating and review for Developer Tea on iTunes | Join Spec's Slack community for free
43 min
November 18, 2015Thinking Small
In today's episode, we talk about solving small problems. I'll give you a few tips for scoping your problems down to be smaller.
Mentioned on today's show
Think Like a Freak (book)
Freakonomics Radio (podcast)
Spec.fm
Click here to leave a review of Developer Tea on iTunes!
Today's episode is sponsored by Linode! Get root access on super-fast linux cloud servers in just a few minutes! Use the code DeveloperTea10 to get $10 off on your new account.
13 min
November 16, 2015Focus, Fear, and Missing Out: Picking Tools Without Anxiety
In today's episode, we talk about FoMO (the fear of missing out) as it relates to deciding what tools to use.
Mentioned on today's episode:
FoMO
ratemyfomo.com
Aziz Ansari (comedian, actor) discusses FoMO
News article about YouTube upload volume (from back in 2010)
The growth of languages on GitHub
Today's episode is sponsored by Linode! Get root access on super-fast linux cloud servers in just a few minutes! Use the code DeveloperTea10 to get $10 off on your new account.
14 min
November 13, 2015The Frontend at Whiteboard
In today's episode I talk about some of the front-end tools we use at Whiteboard.
Join Spec on Slack: http://spec.fm/slack
Mentioned on today's episode:
Bower
Node
NPM
Gulp
Grunt
Composer
Typekit
Fonts.com
CDNJS
Handlebars
Cloudflare
Digital Ocean
Linode
WP Engine
Heroku
JavaScript.com
Babel
ES6 / ES2015
jQuery
Zepto
React
JSX
Underscore.js
Slick.js
Handlebars
D3.js
Polyfills
Request animation frame
Sass (SCSS)
Launchframe
SCSS-lint
Bootstrap 4 Alpha
BEM CSS
Octicon
Fontawesome
Today's episode is sponsored by Hired.com! If you are a developer or a designer looking for a job, Hired is a fantastic place to begin your journey! The special link for a doubled bonus is https://hired.com/developertea.
And lastly...
Please take a moment and subscribe and review the show! Click here to open Developer Tea in iTunes.
19 min
November 11, 2015How To Make Small Things A Big Deal, Plus: Celebrating 2 Million Listens!
Thank you for helping Developer Tea make it to 2 million listens! This is a major milestone for the show.
Not many external resources were mentioned on today's episode, but I'd love to invite you to leave a review on iTunes!
Leave a review for Developer Tea on iTunes now.
Today's episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean!
Go to https://digitalocean.com to get started on cloud hosting. Use the promo code DEVELOPER TEA at the checkout after you create your account to get a $10 credit!
Follow @DeveloperTea on Twitter | Leave a rating and review for Developer Tea on iTunes | Join Spec's Slack community for free
20 min
November 09, 2015Getting The Most Out Of A Conference
Today, we talk about participating in conferences, both as a speaker and as an attendee.
Mentioned on or relevant to today's episode:
2015 CSS Dev Conf
Speaking.io (speaking resources for beginners)
SassConf
SassSummit - Use the discount code "CUTRELL" to get 20% off! Attend online from anywhere in the world.
Leave a review for Developer Tea on iTunes!
Join the Spec Slack community today
Today's episode is sponsored by Linode! Get root access on super-fast linux cloud servers in just a few minutes! Use the code DeveloperTea10 to get $10 off on your new account.
20 min
November 06, 2015Code Without Fear
Code without fear! Happy late Halloween, everyone. :)
Mentioned on the show or otherwise relevant:
Leave it Better Than You Found It (Developer Tea episode)
How Thoughtbot Tests Rails Applications
"What is a Side Effect"
Flux Architecture
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13 min
November 04, 2015Listener Question: Sean asks, "Where Can I Find Well Written Code?"
Sean asked me where to find well written code in Slack. (You can join us by going to http://spec.fm/slack)
@fat's article on Medium's CSS
Chris Coyier's article on Codepen's CSS
GitHub's CSS
IRC
jQuery IRC
Trending repos on GitHub
Microsoft on GitHub
Google on GitHub
NASA on GitHub
SassConf
SassSummit
Today's episode is sponsored by Hired.com! If you are a developer or a designer looking for a job, Hired is a fantastic place to begin your journey! The special link for a doubled bonus is https://hired.com/developertea.
Lastly: Be sure to rate and review Developer Tea on iTunes!
16 min

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Developer Tea exists to help driven developers connect to their ultimate purpose and excel at their work so that they can positively impact the people they influence.

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