The Frontside Podcast

The Frontside Podcast

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The Frontside Podcast episodes

  • 016: Ember 2.0 and the Indie Web with Yehuda Katz and Tom Dale
    Yehuda Katz and Tom Dale join us to talk about the road to Ember 2.0 and "Fast Boot". They share insight about why they stick to a 6 week release cycle, and why they think JS frameworks might be the future of all web apps (especially content sites). We also chat about what "indie open source" means, and exactly how much design goes into the Ember project and community.
    56 min
  • 015: DOMStep with Jamison Dance

    Jamison Dance joins Brandon and Stanley to talk about how to make music with your browser, hosting JS Jabber, and the direction of the JavaScript community.

    We discuss the Javascript Audio API, how to avoid the trap of always chasing the new technologies, and Jamison shares some tips about how to improve your tech talks.

    Show Links:

    • Jamison Dance
    • JS Jabber Podcast
    • DOMStep: Audio Synthesis, AI and a JavaScript Dance Party
    • Theresa’s Sound World
    • “The Mess We’re In” by Joe Armstrong
    • “Transducers” by Rich Hickey
    • If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript by Angus Croll
    • The Humor in the Code by Baratunde Thurston
    • JSX
    • StrangeLoop Conference
      • 41 min
    • 014: Literally everything we learned in 2014

      We're back! Today on the Frontside, we're going to be talking about what we've learned about software consulting over the past year.

      The subjects we're discussing include:

      • Choosing the right partner for your business
      • How to start and run a software consultancy
      • How to craft a healthy work culture
      • Some of the tradeoffs we made, which ones worked out, and which ones just plain sucked
      • The pros and cons of fixed-bid pricing
      • Why you should focus on being great at one thing
      • How to avoid fear-based decision making

        • And of course, so much more. Tune in to one of the final episodes of the Frontside podcast... of 2014.

        Show Links:

        • My Little C Extension: Lego Robots are Magic -
          • Brandon Hays
          40 min
        • 013: Ember-Metal, HTMLbars, and the death of script tags

          Guest hosted by Ember Release Team member Stanley Stuart, this episode is a Canadian edition with Ember contributors mixonic (Matthew Beale) and mmun (Martin Muñoz). They talk about what’s up with Handlebars, HTMLbars, Metal Views, the differences between them, and why you won’t see script tags in Ember markup anymore.

          • Stanley Stuart on Twitter
          • Stanley Stuart on Github
          • Matthew Beale on Twitter
          • Matthew Beale on Github
          • Martin Muñoz on Twitter
          • Martin Muñoz on Github
          • Ember 1.8
          • Htmlbars
          • Liquid Fire
            • 36 min
          • 013: Ember-Metal, HTMLbars, and the death of script tags
            Stanley Stuart hosts a Canadian edition with Ember contributors mixonic (Matthew Beale) and mmun (Martin Muñoz). They talk about what’s up with Ember 1.8, Handlebars, HTMLbars, Metal Views, the differences between them, and why you won’t see script tags in Ember markup anymore.
            36 min
          • 012: Is it OK to not love programming? (with Sarah Mei)

            Sara Mei joins us this week to discuss passion and whether it's a job requirement that you "love programming". She’s a Chief Consultant at DevMynd, a co-founder of RailsBridge, and an all-around rad human. Today we talk about whether it’s okay to get your motivation from things other than your sheer passion for programming, such as societal impact or what you can do with your code.

            • The tweet that started it all
            • Sarah Mei
            • RailsBridge
            • Sara at DevMynd
            • Sarah's new book with Sandi Metz
            • The Moderately Enthusiastic Programmer
            • The Passion Gospel
              • 28 min
            • 011: Hype Cycles and Reprogramming Your Brain

              Michael Coté joins in a (sort-of) Drunk and Retired reunion to talk about Gartner's Hype Cycle, how it affects developers, and how they can actually benefit from understanding it. Coté is an Industry Analyst for 451 Research who helps his clients understand what’s going on in the tech world, what to buy, where to invest and where to start. We also talk reprogramming your brain for empathy, and about the trough of disillusionment in new technology.

              • Drunk and Retired Podcast
              • Michael Coté
              • Docker
              • Ember
              • Trough of Disillusionment
                • 42 min

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              It's like hanging out at our software studio in Austin, Texas with Charles Lowell and the Frontside Team. We talk to smart people about how to make the world of software better for the people who make…