Eat Sleep Code Podcast

Brian and Ed cover the latest news in the development community including: Microsoft, Angular 2, NativeScript, and a creative IoT project. Also, it's a big month for conferences, find out where we'll be.

On this episode of Eat Sleep Code, Greg Levenhagen talks about the newly shipping HoloLens dev kit. UWP, Azure machine learning, and cognitive services are discussed.

The new Telerik Developer Digest episodes are launched. Say hello to the new co-host Brian Rinaldi, and the state of the podcast is discussed. Brian and Ed cover the latest news in the development community including: Learning JavaScript by Doing, Build 2016, Polishing Xamarin Apps, using Foundation 6, and much more...

On this special episode of Eat Sleep Code John Bristowe from the Telerik DevRel team interviews Richard Campbell from Dot Net Rocks at Build 2016.

On this episode of Eat Sleep Code, guests Brad Green and Todd Motto talk about Angular 2. Brad Green, Engineering director on the Angular 2 project shares what's in the Angular 2 road map including the new Angular 2 CLI. Performance improvements, model change technologies and web workers are discussed. Cross platform development with Angular 2 including desktop and mobile using NativeScript are also included in the discussion.

http://developer.telerik.com/content-types/podcast/engineering-angular-2-brad-green/

Brad Green: Hey, good morning.

EC: And Todd Motto is also joining us. Hey, Todd.

Todd Motto: Hey, good evening.

EC: I've brought these folks on the show today to talk about Angular 2. Brad Green is here from Google. Brad, why don't you go ahead and let folks know what you do at Google and what you work on with Angular 2?

BG: Yeah. So I am an Engineering Director here at Google, and I've been working the Angular project for the past, almost six years now, and was one of the project originators along with Misko Hevery and some other folks. And we're excited to roll out Angular 2. We're in beta now and we're getting towards final not too long.

EC: And we also have Todd with us. Todd, give us a quick intro. We just had you on the show last week, but folks tuning in for the first time might not know who you are.

TM: So I am a recent addition to the Telerik team. I'm a developer advocate near London, in England, hence the accent. So I cover the European side of things.

EC: And today, we're gonna discuss Angular 2 in detail. And we're gonna kick things off with some of the tools that you use to build Angular 2. Because things are changing in that regard, especially with the introduction of TypeScript and some of the CLI and whatnot. Brad, you wanna give us some info on what the new tooling is like?

Find the full transcript on Telerik Developer Network http://developer.telerik.com/content-types/podcast/engineering-angular-2-brad-green/

On this special episode of Eat Sleep Code John Bristowe from the Telerik DevRel team interviews developers from Microsoft Build.

On this episode of Eat Sleep Code, guest Todd Motto talks about overcoming JavaScript fatigue. With dozens of new JavaScript frameworks, tools, package managers, and task runners in the ecosystem, how do developers decide on a framework and move forward with a project.

Find the full transcript on Telerik Developer Network

http://developer.telerik.com/content-types/podcast/overcoming-javascript-fatigue/

Ed Charbeneau: Hello, and welcome to Eat Sleep Code, the official Telerik podcast, I'm your host Ed Charbeneau and with me today is Todd Motto. Hi Todd.

Todd Motto: Hey Ed.

00:22 EC: Today we're gonna be talking about JavaScript fatigue. Todd, I brought you on the show today because you are a new team member for Telerik and you're working with JavaScript and Kendo UI, and I thought it'd be a great time to talk about overcoming JavaScript fatigue. And let's talk about that in a moment, but first let's do some introductions, tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do.

00:51 TM: Cool. Yeah, thanks for having me on the show. I'm a new member to the team as you mentioned. I'm over in England, I cover the developer advocate scene in the UK, and parts of Europe and hopefully a little bit further across the pond and over in the US. So yeah, I'm working on the Kendo UI side of things, we'll be diving into the NativeScript as well. There's also the React stuff, and Angular 1 and Angular 2 integrations, so I'll be heavily involved with. So, it's gonna be an exciting year.

02:12 EC: Yeah. Alright man, so we wanted to talk about JavaScript fatigue today. Let's kick it off by explaining what JavaScript fatigue even is.

02:26 TM: Yes. So I think… Well, at the moment, there's this JavaScript fatigue you could probably do a search for it on a Twitter search and get new tweets on it every minute. I think we're just in this JavaScript boom at the moment where there's so many frameworks, and so many new features and tooling, and libraries, and all this stuff that's happening daily and everybody is sort of recommending new things to do. The day before yesterday I was… I'd recently switched over from using Sublime Text to using Atom, and obviously everyone has their own favorite text editor, but everyone's sort of like, "Why don't you try this, why don't you try this, why don't you try this editor instead?" And it's the exact same thing that happens with the JavaScript scene. You might say, "Oh, I've just built this on Angular." And somebody will go, "Why didn't you do in this, why didn't you do it in React? Why didn't you do this? Why didn't you use Flux?" Do you know what I mean? It gives a developer, especially a new developer, to the community like somebody who's come from a jQuery background that builds website to then joining like a software engineering team that builds software in a browser, so web application side of things, to make a jump.

03:37 TM: And then there's this kind of "Which way do I go down?" The path used to be quite clear a couple of years ago, there used to be a couple of frameworks that were sort of the industry leaders and then everybody kinda got a bit smarter and said, "Oh, you know what? I'm actually going to create my own framework or my own version of this framework, and I'm gonna make it 100 times smaller, that's my aim." And then React came out, and then Angular 2 is on its way, and there's all the tooling associated with it. I think instead of just maybe five paths that we had a couple of years ago, we have got 500 paths, and then we've got all the tooling around it. So that's my nutshell definition of JavaScript fatigue, is which way do you go, then when you choose a path, you then go another 500 paths so you can choose either with build tools and back-ends, and web servers, and all this kind of thing.

http://developer.telerik.com/content-types/podcast/overcoming-javascript-fatigue/

On this episode of Eat Sleep Code, guest Elle Waters explains why accessibility is important in software development and what a developer's responsibilities are when creating a product.

http://developer.telerik.com/content-types/podcast/accessibility-developers-user-story/

EC: Good, so today we're gonna be talking about accessibility. And I've brought on one of my favorite accessibility experts, Elle Waters. To give you a little background about Elle and myself. I met Elle at a conference called Code PaLOUsa, and I was watching a very interesting and informative and yet entertaining session on accessibility, and this brilliant speaker was giving a great session when her MacBook completely died. [chuckle] And when her MacBook died, she kept the best composure of a speaker that was having the worst technical difficulties ever, and I was literally impressed at that moment 'cause that is not something that fits my DNA. I probably would have thrown some technology out some windows at that point. So with that I'd like to reintroduce Elle Waters. Elle, tell us a little bit about yourself.

EW: Thanks. Oh my gosh, I had forgotten all about that, [chuckle] that really painful episode, but that's really flattering. So, I am currently the Director of Strategy at a company called Simply Accessible. What that means in day to day life is that we work with a lot of different organizations, a lot of different companies, different sizes. And I tend to work with companies that are large enterprise companies facing some impossible deadlines for accessibility and large challenges. And I really enjoy the challenge of that and we work with designers, developers, and testers primarily, along with some management to be able to further the cause and help them understand how to be able to build accessible digital content.

Find the full transcript on Telerik Developer Network http://developer.telerik.com/content-types/podcast/accessibility-developers-user-story/

On this episode of Eat Sleep Code, guest Matt Millican talks about Microsoft's open source initiative. Why did Microsoft go open source, what products, and what to expect in the future.

On this episode of Eat Sleep Code, guest Chris Michel talks about how Sass can improve your CSS code, what's happening in the Sass community, and what Sass means for your next project.