The Frontside Podcast

By Charles Lowell & the Frontside Team

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... more

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June 15, 2014 006: Myth of the Lone Genius Programmer
This week Brandon and Charles discuss Brandon's perhaps-controversial appearance on JS Jabber, the dangers of being a solitary genius (the Good Will Hunting myth), and why you aren't a special snowflake (the Luke Skywalker myth).
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33min
May 27, 2014005: Backbone, Ember, and the "build your own Voltron" bias
We're back!
After a brief, unexplainable disappearance, Brandon and Charles have retuned to discuss their talks at RailsConf 2014, designing models, why writing a framework sucks, the library-author bias, and more.
RailsConf 2014 Videos are up!
The Power of M (Charles at RailsConf)
Bring Fun Back to JS (Brandon at RailsConf)
Router JS
Programming in the Wild West
You can't not have a framework by Ryan Florence
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36min
May 27, 2014 005: Backbone, Ember, and the "build your own Voltron" bias
We're back!
After a brief, unexplainable disappearance, Brian and Charles have retuned to discuss their talks at RailsConf 2014, designing models, why writing a framework sucks, the library-author bias, and more.
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36min
May 13, 2014004: EmberConf Recap
Ember JS Conference Recap.
This week we discuss last month's EmberConf, what's going on with components, and the current state of testing in Ember and how developers are working towards making it easier.
Show Links:
Brandon's MountainWest JS talk
Brandon's slides
EmberConf talks
Jeremy Mack on Fnd.io
Fnd.io
DeVaris Brown: Ember is for the Children
Rails Girls
Rails Bridge
Code Rush
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34min
May 13, 2014 004: EmberConf Recap
The least timely wrap-up ever, Brandon and Charles talk about what struck them at EmberConf.
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34min
March 10, 2014003: Refactoring toward Ember
This week, we talk about Ember and how we use it in our web apps (hint: it's the future of the web).
Ember and the Future of the Web
Demo for techniques to sprinkle Ember into Rails projects
The slides from that presentation
Welcome Jeffrey Biles!
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28min
March 10, 2014 003: Refactoring toward Ember
Charles and Brandon discuss how they refactor existing apps toward Ember without a big-bang rewrite.
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28min
February 26, 2014 002: Devil's Advocate
Client-side apps are great, but they're not perfect for every situation. Charles and Brandon discuss times single-page apps might not make sense. Also, they discuss how Jim Weirich affected their lives.
Goodbye, Jim. :(
https://github.com/jimweirich/wyriki/commit/d28fac7f18aeacb00d8ad3460a0a5a901617c2d4
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30min
February 26, 2014 002: Devil's Advocate
Client-side apps are great, but they're not perfect for every situation. Charles and Brandon discuss times single-page apps might not make sense. Also, they discuss how Jim Weirich affected their lives.
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30min
February 19, 2014 001: Hit me baby one more time
Charles and Brandon argue about what to name the podcast.
They talk about how "one more feature"-itis sinks many projects and startups, how you can recognize when you're caught in it, and patterns they've used to avoid it.
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29min

FAQs about The Frontside Podcast:

How many episodes does The Frontside Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 261 episodes available.