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  • GitHub Product & GraphQL

    In this episode of Spotlight recorded at OSCON London 2016, Jerod talked with Coby Chapple, a product designer at GitHub (since 2012), about projects, transactional code reviews, and GraphQL. Coby drops a lot of knowledge bombs in this interview. You don’t want to miss this episode.

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    • OSCON – O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention combines the experience of the open source community with ideas and strategies for using open source tools and technologies. There’s no event quite like OSCON! Make plans now to be at OSCON May 8-11, 2017, in Austin, TX. Registration is now open — save 20% on most passes by using the code CHANGELOG20 when you register.

      • Featuring:

      • Coby Chapple – Twitter, GitHub, Website
      • Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

      Show Notes:

      • GitHub’s announcement from Universe about their new features — A whole new GitHub Universe: announcing new tools, forums, and features
      • GitHub Projects docs
      • GitHub’s GraphQL API docs
      • GraphQL API explorer
      • GitHub’s announcement of The GitHub GraphQL API

        • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

        39 min
      • Blockchain and Hyperledger

        In this episode of Spotlight recorded at All Things Open 2016, Adam talked with Anna Derbakova from IBM after her jam packed talk on Blockchain and Hyperledger about the fundamentals of blockchain, how this technology is revolutionizing finance, banking, IoT, supply chains, manufacturing, and any other applications out there that can benefit from a “smart contract”, The Hyperledger Project, and the exciting opportunities that exist in the future for blockchains.

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        • All Things Open – Join 2,000+ technologists and decision makers in Raleigh, NC — The epicenter of innovation, technology and open source, and home to one of the most sophisticated audiences on Earth.

          • Featuring:

          • Anna Derbakova – Twitter, GitHub
          • Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

          Show Notes:

          • IBM Blockchain - Quickly run a blockchain network in a secure Cloud environment. Spin up a blockchain network on a private, virtualized environment; create and secure digital assets in test applications to trade over a permissioned network.
          • Hyperledger Fabric Basics — This tutorial was presented as part of Anna’s presentation at All Things Open 2016. Her presentation was focused on blockchain applications, and specifically, getting started with building an application with Hyperledger Fabric.
          • View the slides from Anna’s talk — Blockchain for Business on Hyperledger
          • Hyperledger — an open source collaborative effort under the Linux Foundation created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. It is a global collaboration including leaders in finance, banking, IoT, supply chain, manufacturing and technology.
          • The Hyperledger Project on GitHub
          • Fabric core
          • Hyperledger Fabric Client SDK for Node.js
          • Join Hyperledger Project on Slack
          • IBM Bluemix
          • The Changelog #222: Ethereum and Cryptocurrency with Gavin Wood

            • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

            33 min
          • The JS Foundation

            In this episode of Spotlight recorded at OSCON London 2016, Jerod talked with Kris Borchers about the launch of the JS Foundation right after their big announcement to learn about this new foundation and its mission for the JavaScript community and open source.

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            • OSCON – O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention combines the experience of the open source community with ideas and strategies for using open source tools and technologies. There’s no event quite like OSCON! Make plans now to be at OSCON May 8-11, 2017, in Austin, TX. Registration is now open — save 20% on most passes by using the code CHANGELOG20 when you register.

              • Featuring:

              • Kris Borchers – Twitter, GitHub
              • Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

              Show Notes:

              • Kris is the Executive Director of The JS Foundation
              • The JS Foundation
              • Announcement: The Linux Foundation Unites JavaScript Community for Open Web Development
              • “Come by the JS Foundation booth at #OSCON to chat about the next evolution of JavaScript”

                • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

                27 min
              • Exercism and 99 Bottles of OOP

                Welcome to the first Spotlight series recorded at OSCON London 2016. Jerod talked with Katrina Owen, an accomplished speaker, creator of the excellent coding practice and feedback site, Exercism.io, and the co-author of 99 Bottles of OOP. Have you ever heard the story of how Katrina went from anonymous developer to sharing a byline with Sandi Metz? She shared all the details during this face-to-face chat.

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                • OSCON – O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention combines the experience of the open source community with ideas and strategies for using open source tools and technologies. There’s no event quite like OSCON! Make plans now to be at OSCON May 8-11, 2017, in Austin, TX. Registration is now open — save 20% on most passes by using the code CHANGELOG20 when you register.

                  • Featuring:

                  • Katrina Owen – Twitter, GitHub, Website
                  • Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

                  Show Notes:

                  • The Changelog #225: 99 Practical Bottles of OOP with Sandi Metz - Adam and Jerod talk with Sandi Metz about her beginnings on the mainframe, her 30+ years of programming experience, the ins and outs of OOP, her book Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (aka POODR), as well as her latest book 99 Bottles of OOP which she co-authored with Katrina Owen. We also covered a few listener submitted questions at the end.
                  • The Changelog #202: 23 Years of Ruby with Matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) - Adam and Jerod talk with Matz, the creator of the Ruby programming language, about where he began as a programmer, the origins of Ruby, its history and future, Ruby 3.0, concurrency and parallelism, Streem, Erlang, Elixir, and more.
                  • Exercism — Level up your programming skills
                  • Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (POODR) - is a programmers tale written by Sandi Metz, explaining object-oriented design (OOD) using realistic, understandable examples. POODR is a practical, readable introduction to how OOD can lower your costs and improve your applications.
                    • about how to write object-oriented code.
                  • 99 Bottles of OOP - a book by Sandi Metz and Katrina Owen written as a practical guide to writing cost-effective, maintainable, and pleasing object-oriented code.
                  • Therapeutic Refactoring - a story about taking complicated, untested code and changing it in small, safe steps to make it easier to understand. It walks through the step-by-step process of adding characterization tests, as well as working through a classic refactoring, “Replace Method with Method Object”.

                    • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

                    27 min
                  • Welcome to Spotlight

                    Adam and Jerod discuss the details of this new podcast; what’s coming up, what you can expect in future episodes, and how you can invite Spotlight to a conference or community event near you. Email us – [email protected].

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                    Featuring:

                    • Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
                    • Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

                    Show Notes:

                    • Listen to the first episode — Spotlight #2: OSCON London 2016 - Katrina Owen
                    • Seriously, email us at [email protected]. We’d love to talk about producing a podcast series around your conference or community event.
                    • We’re not in iTunes just yet (it takes about a week to get approved), but you can subscribe to Master in iTunes or your favorite podcast app.
                    • Subscribe using our RSS feed — changelog.com/spotlight/feed

                      • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

                      6 min

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