Three Devs and a Maybe

By Michael Budd, Fraser Hart, Lewis Cains, Edd MannTechnology Education

Three Devs and a Maybe episodes

January 04, 201684: Keeping it Lean into 2016
In this years first episode we start off the show with discussion on Lew’s newly updated website, Bowling Game Code Katas and PostgreSQL.
We then move on to talk about React-Router, ‘shrinkwrapping’ NPM dependences and Edd’s introduction to the world of Lisp by way of Clojure.
Other coding katas are then mentioned (FizzBuzz), along with an interesting project good friend of the show Jimmy Burrell has recently released.
Finally, we wrap up the show with ideas on the technologies and languages each of us wishes to explore this year, along with some interesting podcast episodes we have recently listened to.
Show Links
Lewis Cains - Website Developer

The Bowling Game Kata

PostgreSQL

rackt/react-router - GitHub

shrinkwrap - npm Documentation

The Joy of Clojure

FizzBuzz in Clojure

Infix Calculator in Clojure

Browsersync

Color Loving Functional Style - Concocted Logic

JavaScript Air

Choosing an HTTP Status Code

Wave Invoice

Fizz Buzz Test

Fizz buzz - Wikipedia

Getting Started with Redux

The Laracasts Snippet

Full Stack Radio - Building Basecamp 3 like a Porsche 911

Functional Geekery - David Nolen

clojure/clojurescript - GitHub

omcljs/om - GitHub
52 min
December 21, 201583: Kong, the API/Microservice Management Layer with Ahmad Nassri
This week we are very lucky to have Ahmad Nassri on the show to discuss the world of API’s and how Kong (the API/Microservice management layer) fits into the picture.
We start of discussion with how he got into programming and garnered an entrepreneurial spirit in his homeland of Syria, before moving to Canada in his late teens.
Following this we chat about his current companies (Mashape) approach to development, picking the right stack and language for the job at hand.
Throughout these experiences and their central ‘Marketplace’ product Kong has been developed, helping unify similar API requirements such as logging, authentication and request transformations.
As the word ‘microservices’ has been brought up, discussion then centers around his definition of the term and the three pillars (modularization, componentisation, services) he sees there being.
We then move on to the decisions behind using Nginx and Lua as the base for Kong’s development, along with a look into the Lua ecosystem and Mashape’s many contributions.
Finally, we chat about Kong’s plugin architecture and the vibrant community/projects that have been created since its initial inception.
Show Links
Ahmad Nassri

Ahmad Nassri on GitHub

Ahmad Nassri on Twitter

Mashape - Powering API Driven Software

Kong, APIs, and Microservices with Ahmad Nassri - The Changelog

The Story So Far: My Journey (Part 1) - Ahmad Nassri

The Story So Far: My Journey (Part 2) - Ahmad Nassri

ahmadnassri/restful-zend-framework - GitHub

ahmadnassri/restconsole - GitHub

Unirest - Simplified, lightweight HTTP request client libraries in multiple languages

Galileo - Build and Deliver Better APIs

Gelato.io - Super-Sweet Developer Portals

Mashape - Free API Management Platform & Marketplace

LuaRocks - The Lua package manager

Lua

OpenResty - a fast web app server by extending nginx

OASIS

Web-service specifications - Wikipedia

Java The Hutt - WS-Deathstar and the complexity tradeoff

What is meant by WS-*?

Reporting for duty on WS-Deathstar

WS-DeathStar - Flickr

mybuilder/kongfig - GitHub
1 hr 11 min
December 16, 201582: Delving into HTTP/2 with Mattias Geniar
On this week’s show we are joined by Mattias Geniar to discuss all things HTTP2.
We start of the show with discussion on how he got into programming, moving into a DevsOps role as his career has progressed.
From here we briefly discuss the term DevOps and how he uses a lot of Puppet in his current role.
This leads us into chat about a host of topics revolved around HTTP, the history, TCP, the OSI model and ‘best practices’ in regard to HTTP 1.1 usage.
We then move on to discuss the HTTP2 protocol, the changes that have been made, how easy it is to adopt and how our typical tooling works with the new standard.
Finally, we wrap up the show with discussion on TLS and how/why it has almost become a ‘de-facto’ standard for the HTTP2 protocol, along with the different servers that have appeared since its inception.
Show Links
@mattiasgeniar on Twitter

ma.ttias.be

HTTP/2: The Next Version of the Internet

Puppet

Ansible

Chef

Best Practices for HTTP1.1 Becoming Bad Practices for HTTP/2

DevOps

OSI model

HTTP/2

Caddy - The HTTP/2 Web Server with Fully Managed SSL

H2O - the optimized HTTP/2 server

Varnish

varnish/hitch - GitHub
1 hr 1 min
December 06, 201581: Wibble, wobble, wubble...
On this week’s ramble podcast we are joined by the Macintosh Speech Synthesis Manager!?
We start of the show with discussion on dedicated full-text indexing search solutions, followed by conversation on random domains that we may have purchased in the past.
We then move on to chat about blogging solutions, the small refactoring cycles vs. full rewrites decision and what a design pattern truly is.
Edd then goes off on a tangent about the ‘curse’ of the DRY principle, followed by the use of traits over conventional OOP concepts.
Finally, we wrap up the show touching upon HTTP and how it is favourable to try and put off caching until it is justifiably needed.
Show Links
Making your Mac talk with “say”

say(1) - Mac OS X Manual Page

Sphinx

Elastic (formally Elasticsearch)

Algolia

Apache Lucene

Lew’s Snippets Site

Mince Pie Challenge 2015

Jekyll

Raspberry Pi Zero

“Here’s the @Raspberry_Pi Zero, free with a magazine - alongside the 2012 original. Moore’s Law in action https://t.co/QJqcj2q2Or”
1 hr 4 min
November 30, 201580: 'Hardcore' Functional Programming using Ramda with Andrew D'Amelio
In this week’s show we are lucky to be joined by Andrew D’Amelio, to discuss all things Ramda and ‘Hardcore’ Functional Programming.
We start off discussion with how he got into programming, growing up with lecturers telling him that JavaScript was just a flash in the pan.
Leading on from this we delve into how he quit his previous job to take 6 months off, investing time into learning AngularJS due to its heavy job demand.
Throughout this time he was able to learn a lot from the Frontend Masters courses, with aid from AngularJS’s opinionated approach.
We then move on to discuss the philosophy behind Ramda, introduced to him within the Hardcore Functional Programming course provided by Frontend Masters - and how it promotes code reuse by way of composition.
This interest into the library brought him to introduce it to colleagues in a lunch n’ learn, paving the way for deployment into production.
Andrew then highlights how it performed in production, along with his experiences debugging code written with it.
Finally, we finish off the show touching upon type transformations and how his current workplace are using TypeScript and Flow to harness typing.
We then conclude on how Ramda is a great gateway into many advanced functional concepts, using a language that feels ‘safe’ as opposed to taking an even bigger dive into Haskell and Lisp dialects.
Show Links
andrewdamel.io

andydrew (@andrewdamelio) on Twitter

andrewdamelio (Andrew D’Amelio) - GitHub

Practical Functional JavaScript with Ramda

Ramda

Rangle.io

Frontend Masters

Hardcore Functional Programming in JavaScript Video Course - Frontend Masters

Brian Lonsdorf (@drboolean) on Twitter

loop/recur

DrBoolean (Brian Lonsdorf) - GitHub

TypeScript

AngularJS

Flow

Immutable.js
59 min
November 25, 201579: Foo, bar, baz...
In this week’s show we start off discussion with Lew’s upgraded audio and Mick’s side-project ‘Smuddle’ which hopes to help fill a void in the shopping comparison site area.
We then move on to touch upon third-party email delivery solutions, task scheduling abstractions and queuing implementations.
API’s and the tooling around them is next on the list along with how the JavaScript stack can be quite intimidating when you first delve into it.
Finally, we chat briefly about Hypermedia API’s and look into developing and deploying web applications outside of the PHP ecosystem.
Show Links
Breaking the Magician’s Code

smuddle.com - Shopping Price Comparison Search Engine

Smuddle on Twitter

SendGrid

Mailgun

Mandrill

Task Scheduling - Laravel

Queues - Laravel

RabbitMQ

Laravel Homestead - Laravel

Kong - Open-Source API Management and Microservice Management

Postman

RAML

API Blueprint

Swagger

ScreenFlow

Jsoup

Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures

Puppet
53 min
November 22, 201578: PHP Internals catch-up with Joe Watkins
On this weeks show we are lucky to be joined by recurring guest and friend of the show Joe Watkins.
We start of discussion with the upcoming PHP 7 release, reasoning behind why it has been postponed, the bright future of adoption to the release compared to previous versions and how the release gets packaged up for different distributions.
We then move on to touch upon uopz (User Operations for Zend), how it helps aid getting code ‘under-test’ and the progress made to make it compatible with PHP 7.
The pthreads polyfill and work on a new project called ‘inspector’ are next on the list, with the history behind how inspector started from the concept of serialising functions/closures.
Finally, we chat about the recent APCu events and additions, highlighting different forms of locking in the process - followed by what interesting topics he wishes to explore in the future.
Show Links
PHP 7 RTM Date

Joe Watkins on Twitter: “Coming to a PHP manual near you soon, along with the rest of the documentation for APCu…”

Joe Watkins on Twitter: “So… I f’d up, read about it”

Musings, ninja ones - APC and Me

krakjoe/apcu - GitHub

krakjoe/pthreads-polyfill - GitHub

krakjoe/uopz - GitHub

krakjoe/inspector - GitHub

Thread carefully :: madewithlove

Hack and HHVM - Async

File locking

Mutual exclusion

Readers–writer lock

Spinlock

Amp

icicleio/icicle - GitHub
1 hr 2 min
November 06, 201577: The History of React and Flux with Dan Abramov
On this weeks episode we are lucky to be joined by Dan Abramov, creator of Redux and React Hot Loader (React Transform).
We start off the show with his upcoming move to work at Facebook in London, and touch upon how he became interested in programming from a young-age.
Following this we discuss his transition from VBA, to C# and then JavaScript - by-way of CoffeeScript and a BackboneJS application he was working on.
Issues with the complexity of asynchronous logic and hard-to-reproduce bugs lead him to invest time in exploring React.
We then talk about the problem React solves and how its’ pragmatic approach (including escape-hatches) can easily propagate up your code-tree.
Successful use of React was followed by exploring Flux and we highlight how it forces data-mutations to follow a strict-cycle.
We discuss the history of different Flux implementations and how he went about eventually making his own (Redux) for a recent talk he gave.
Finally, we wrap up the show highlighting his work with React Hot Loader and its successor React Transform, along with recommended resources for beginners looking to explore these subjects in more detail.
Show Links
Dan Abramov - Twitter

gaearon (Dan Abramov) - GitHub

gaearon/react-hot-loader - GitHub

gaearon/react-transform-boilerplate - GitHub

rackt/redux - GitHub

Dan Abramov - Live React: Hot Reloading with Time Travel - YouTube

Xamarin

Visual Basic for Applications

getify/You-Dont-Know-JS - GitHub

You Don’t Know JS (book series) by Kyle Simpson

C Sharp

Backbone.js

React

rackt/react-router - GitHub

sebmarkbage (Sebastian Markbage) - GitHub

React Native

reactjs/react-art - GitHub

Yomguithereal/react-blessed - GitHub

Flux

CQRS

yahoo/fluxible - GitHub

reflux/refluxjs - GitHub

Flummox

Alt

NuclearJS

Elm

React Fundamentals - EggHead

React: Flux Architecture - EggHead

Thinking in React

My React List
1 hr 33 min
October 29, 201576: Let's TalkTalk about Security
This week we are very lucky to have Lewis back on the show after his recent move.
We discuss what he has been getting up to in his absence and how he is balancing work/life whilst being remote.
Following this, we touch upon a reinvigorated passion for software architecture, moving to a framework from bespoke solutions and the middleware pattern.
Discussion then turns towards moving from AngularJS to React/Flux and resources Edd has written and found useful whilst learning the subject.
Security is the next hot-topic with the recent TalkTalk security breach in question, an interesting pseudo-random number seed issue and SSL/TLS/HTTPS all explained.
Finally, we conclude with an update on Mick’s final year project and his work with decision trees.
Show Links
HTTP Middleware - Laravel

vue.js

React

Flux

Asynchronous Calls within Flux

mybuilder/task-app - GitHub

React Fundamental Answers - Software Engineering Daily

ReactEurope - YouTube

Dan Abramov - Live React - Hot Reloading with Time Travel

Flow - A static type checker for JavaScript

Add support for oauth2 plugin X-Forwarded-Proto HTTPS override by CyExy - Mashape/kong - GitHub

An example of a decision tree - Does Joanie love Chachi

A guy bought ‘Google.com’ for a minute - Tech Insider

SSL Certificates - Serving secure web content over HTTPS

How HTTPS Secures Connections

Pseudorandom number generator

ircmaxell/RandomLib - GitHub

paragonie/random_compat - GitHub
56 min
October 15, 201575: The Shownote Heavy Podcast
On this weeks show we start off proceedings with Edd’s experience developing and deploying a JavaScript centric application - mentioning an example application he is currently working on to document use of Flux, React, Webpack and Karma.
We then move on to highlight the sites hosting switch to Jekyll and S3, and how we have been able to get download statistics back thanks to S3Stat.
Following on from this we discuss configuration formats, how Mick was able to get disconnected by his ISP due to his finial year project and Fraser’s exploration into Ionic.
Finally, we wrap up the show touching upon the Natural Computation book Edd is currently reading and a couple of interesting developer related shows available on BBC Radio 4.
Show Links
eddmann/task-app - GitHub

Cartesian Product in JavaScript - Edd Mann

Analytics for CloudFront & Amazon S3 - S3stat

The Cheap Bastard Plan - S3stat

Clean Coders

Kong - Open-Source API Management and Microservice Management

Maven

yasserg/crawler4j - GitHub

Gradle

Are you a robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA”

Douglas Crockford - Go To There and Back Again

JanVanRyswyck/awesome-talks - GitHub

The Groovy programming language

sbt - The interactive build tool

Sandi Metz

Sandi Metz - Madam Sandi Tells Your Future

Sandi Metz - Nothing is Something

Sandi Metz - Grit & Determination

Sandi Metz - The Magic Tricks of Testing

Sandi Metz - SOLID Object-Oriented Design

Introducing the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project, for a faster, open mobile web

Accelerated Mobile Pages Project

Ionic - Advanced HTML5 Hybrid Mobile App Framework

Understanding Computation

Functional Geekery Episode 28 - Tom Stuart

CS Book Club

PHP 7 Release Timetable

BBC Radio 4 - Computing Britain

Finding Ada

BBC Four - Calculating Ada: The Countess of Computing

BBC Radio 4 - Codes that Changed the World
53 min

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