Developer Tea

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Developer Tea episodes

May 08, 2015Answering Listener Questions: Matt asks about the feasibility of finding remote work, online education, and the order of learning
Matt is a beginner developer who is making a shift to support his new life situation, in which he is unable to work a normal 9-to-5 job in an office. Matt sent me an email asking a few questions about this shift, and how he should begin to learn.
Important Links:
Make it Stick
Episode about making small and fun things
A curated list of remote work resources
Remote: Office Not Required
How GitHub Works
This episode is sponsored by OneMonth.com. Head over to OneMonth.com/developertea to get started learning Ruby on Rails in just one month, and receive a limited-time 25% discount!
19 min
May 07, 2015 Inspiration Episode: Brian Eno Teaches Us To Limit Our Options
In this week's inspiration episode starts with a quote from Brian Eno, a highly influential musician and audio engineer, about limiting options in order to better take advantage of our efforts.
4 min
May 06, 2015Scott Belsky, Part Two
Scott Belsky (@ScottBelsky) is the VP Products & Community at Adobe and cofounder of Behance. Scott is also a successful investor in major tech companies such as Periscope and Uber.
Scott and I talk about the fundamental nature of creativity, why he created Behance, staying focused, the value of formal education, and what he wishes more people would ask him. Finally, at the end of the second part of the interview, Scott shares specific advice for developers who are wanting to work better with visionaries. Enjoy the interview!
Links:
Behance
ActionMethod (discontinued)
99U
Scott's book, Making Ideas Happen
99U Book Series
This episode is sponsored by Intuit. Check out the developer sandbox and API explorer at http://intuit.me/DevTea to get started building apps for millions of small business today!
17 min
May 04, 2015Scott Belsky, Part One
Scott Belsky is the VP Products & Community at Adobe and cofounder of Behance. Scott is also a successful investor in major tech companies such as Periscope and Uber.
Scott and I talk about the fundamental nature of creativity, why he created Behance, staying focused, the value of formal education, and what he wishes more people would ask him. Finally, at the end of the second part of the interview, Scott shares specific advice for developers who are wanting to work better with visionaries. Enjoy the interview!
Links:
Behance
ActionMethod (discontinued)
99U
Scott's book, Making Ideas Happen
99U Book Series
17 min
May 01, 2015Answering Front-end Developer Interview Questions: Explaining the Importance of Standards for the Web
In today's episode, we discuss the importance of standards and standards bodies for web technologies, specifically for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript specs.
Links:
Front-end Developer Interview Questions
HTML5 Boilerplate Organization
Mailing Lists for W3C
Today's episode is sponsored by DigitalOcean. Go to https://digitalocean.com to get started, and use the promo code "DeveloperTea" on the billing page after you create your account to get a $10 credit!
8 min
April 30, 2015 Answering Listener Questions: Devin, a Non-Developer, Asks About Grasping Things That Go Over His Head, and Finding Starting Points
In this episode, long-time listener Devin asks about how to grasp things that go over his head. You're not alone, Devin! In this episode, I give you (and others just like you) encouragement in the midst of your confusion, as well as some more practical advice for learning something new.
Today's sponsor is OneMonth.com - go to OneMonth.com/developertea and enroll today to get 25% off your first month!
12 min
April 29, 2015Hampton Catlin, Part Two: Speedy Sass with libsass, Wordset.org and Open-Sourcing Our Words
In today's episode, I talk with Hampton Catlin about fast Sass compilation with libsass, and then we discuss his latest project, Wordset, and why we need a truly open source dictionary.
Links for the whole interview:
@hcatlin (tell him thanks for being on @developertea!)
@DeveloperTea
Ancient City Ruby
Hampton's Survey (Askr)
http://haml.info/
Heroku officially supports Puma
Chris Coyier (on preferring Sass)
@chriseppstein
@nex3, Natalie Weizenbaum
Rarebit
http://wordset.org
http://github.com/wordset
This episode is sponsored by Intuit. Check out the developer sandbox and API explorer at http://intuit.me/DevTea
27 min
April 27, 2015Hampton Catlin, Part One: Sass, the W3C, and (not) Being Data-Driven
@hcatlin (tell him thanks for being on @developertea!)
@DeveloperTea
Ancient City Ruby
Hampton's Survey (Askr)
http://haml.info/
Heroku officially supports Puma
Chris Coyier (on preferring Sass)
@chriseppstein
@nex3, Natalie Weizenbaum
Rarebit
http://wordset.org
http://github.com/wordset
27 min
April 24, 2015 Weekly Inspiration - Happiness and Doing Our Best Work: 3 Practical Steps to Getting The Right Things Done and Finding Focus State Faster
In today's inspiration episode, I discuss the importance of removing barriers between you and your most important work, and why that is such an important thing to do. I then discuss 3 practical steps you can try that have helped me get to my focus state, and get more meaningful work done every day.
Today's episode is sponsored by DigitalOcean. Go to https://digitalocean.com to get started, and use the promo code "DeveloperTea" on the billing page after you create your account to get a $10 credit!
12 min
April 23, 2015Part Two: Culture and Connecting to Our Work with Pamela Vickers
Pamela Vickers and I sat down at Ancient City Ruby to talk about culture, conferences, and ping pong. And it was awesome.
@pwnela
RailsGirls Atlanta
PERMA
MINSWAN
Ruby Dramas
(Avoiding) Ruby Drama
Hampton's Ruby Survey
14 min

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