How To Code Well

How To Code Well

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How To Code Well episodes

  • 78 - From care worker to coder - Emily Wallace Price interview

    In today's podcast I am joined by Emily Wallace Price who talks about her development story and career change from care worker to coder. Emily was a care worker for 10 years but due to reasons beyond her control she needed to change careers.

    Emily taught herself web development and coding, after completing a series of Udemy courses and building up her portfolio Emily applied for jobs in web development. Emily is now a Junior web developer specialising in Laravel.


    Show notes: https://howtocodewell.net/podcast/episode/78


    45 min
  • 77 - Working from home tips during lock down - Matt Brunt Interview

    Matt Brunt joins me to talk about what it's like working from home during lockdown. We discuss some of the advantages and dis advantages of working from home for both the developer and the company. Matt has some great advice for junior developers who have recently come in to the industry but are now required to work remotely due to the lockdown.


    Show notes: https://howtocodewell.net/podcast/episode/77

    54 min
  • 76 - Use Terraform and Ansible to test your DevOps configuration

    Today we are going to talk about two technologies that I've been  learning to deploy and test infrastructure.

    These are Terraform and Ansible. In this episode I explain the difference between the two and discuss the advantages of Infrastructure As Code (IaS)


    Show notes: ⁠⁠⁠https://howtocodewell.net/podcast/episode/76

    23 min
  • 75 - 19 Working from home tips

    Due to Covid-19 more people are being told to work from home.

    I have been a remote developer for 8 years and today I want to discuss 19 tips for working at home.


    Show notes: ⁠⁠https://howtocodewell.net/podcast/episode/75

    26 min
  • 74 - Monoliths and Microservices

    Today we are going to discuss the rebuild of howtocodewell.net using a microservice architecture. The current site is a basic Monolith and I would like to improve it with e-commerce and e-learning features.  These features will be based on many Microservices. 

    We are going to talk about some of the things that I've found difficult during the development stage of the project. We are also going to discuss some of the advantages and disadvantages of using a Microservices architecture.


    Show notes: ⁠https://howtocodewell.net/podcast/episode/74


    25 min
  • 73 - How are programmers valued

    Today I'm going to talk about how we sometimes measure the value of programmers. Sometimes this can help define how much a programmer is paid and worth to a company.

    I will discussing some of my older experiences as a freelancer and also as full time web developer.


    Show notes: https://howtocodewell.net/podcast/episode/73

    21 min
  • 72 - 19 Web Development misconceptions

    Here are 19 misconceptions about web development!

    These include; Women can't code, Web development is getting easier, Vue is better than React and many more.


    Show notes: https://howtocodewell.net/podcast/episode/72

    26 min
  • 69 - Ben Orenstein talks about pair programming with Tuple

    Ben Orenstein is a co founder of a pair programming tool called Tuple that allows remote developers to share and alter code in realtime.

    Ben joins me to talk about Tuple and what pair programming is.
    Ben is also a speaker, singer and ruby developer. We talk about his coding background and how he came up with the idea of Tuple


    Show notes: https://howtocodewell.net/podcast/episode/69


    50 min

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Web development discussions and interviews from Peter Fisher. Covering JavaScript, Linux, Docker, PHP, Python, MYSQL, HTML and more