The Frontside Podcast

The Frontside Podcast

By Charles Lowell & the Frontside TeamBusinessTechnology
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The Frontside Podcast episodes

  • 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).
    33 min
  • 005: 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
      • 36 min
    • 004: 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
          • 34 min
        • 003: 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!
            • 28 min
          • 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

            30 min
          • 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.
            30 min
          • 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.

            29 min

          About The Frontside Podcast

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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…