In today's episode we discuss 3 ways to improve your views. Mentioned or relevant to today's episode: "Declarative, Composable Views" "Model-view-controller" Sandi Metz: "Nothing is Something" Today's episode is sponsored by Linode ! Head over to Linode.com/developertea or use the code DeveloperTea20 at checkout for a $20 credit towards your cloud hosting account! Thanks again to Linode for your support of Developer Tea. And lastly... Please take a moment and subscribe and review the show! Click...
May 02, 2016•12 min•Ep. 230
In today's episode, I'll talk with you about maintaining relationships with your colleagues! Mentioned or relevant to today's episode: Proactive Client Communication Building and Maintaining Client Relationships Client Relationships: Meeting Preparation Tips If you're interested in sponsoring Developer Tea, head over to spec.fm/sponsors today!...
Apr 29, 2016•20 min•Ep. 229
In today's episode (and the next episode of Developer Tea), we discuss avoiding over-optimization by creating a "performance budget". Mentioned or relevant to today's episode "How to make a performance budget" "Setting up a web performance budget" Today's episode is sponsored by FreshBooks! Get paid faster, and get control of your business cash flow. Head over to FreshBooks.com/DeveloperTea today to get started with a free month. Don't forget to enter “Developer Tea” in the “how Did you Hear Abo...
Apr 27, 2016•12 min•Ep. 228
In today's episode (and the next episode of Developer Tea), we discuss avoiding over-optimization by creating a "performance budget". Mentioned or relevant to today's episode "How to make a performance budget" "Setting up a web performance budget" Today's episode is sponsored by Rollbar . With Rollbar, you get the context, insights and control you need to find and fix bugs faster. Rollbar is offering Developer Tea listeners the Bootstrap Plan, free for 90 days (300,000 errors tracked for free)!...
Apr 25, 2016•14 min•Ep. 227
Today's episode is all about proactive client communication! A HUGE thanks to today's sponsor, FreshBooks! FreshBooks is ridiculously easy to use, and will help you get your books straight and get paid faster. To claim your free month, go to FreshBooks.com/DeveloperTea and enter “Developer Tea” in the “how Did you Hear About Us?” Section when you sign up.
Apr 22, 2016•17 min•Ep. 226
In today's episode, I give you some tips for refactoring based on the responsibility of your code. Mentioned or relevant to today's episode Single Responsibility Principle Developer Tea Episode on SRP Sorting algorithms (note the single-letter variable names) "Anti-pattern: The God Object" And the long awaited announcement: Developer Tea is available on Google Play! Today's episode is sponsored by FreshBooks! Get paid faster, and get control of your business cash flow. Head over to FreshBooks.co...
Apr 20, 2016•22 min•Ep. 225
In today's episode, I talk about four different types of abstract mental models. Mentioned or relevant to today's episode: Creating Useful Metaphors Creating Obvious Systems: Why Mental Models Justify Simplicity, and When to Utilize Surprise and Delight Allegory (Wikipedia) Today's episode is sponsored by Squares Conference! Go to SquaresConference.com and use the code SPECFM25 at checkout to get 25% off your ticket to Squares. I'll see you there! And lastly... Please take a moment and subscribe...
Apr 18, 2016•17 min•Ep. 224
In today's episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Chris Castiglione (@castig), one of the cofounders of One Month ( onemonth.com ). Mentioned or relevant to today's episode: On Books podcast Daniel Kahneman's book, "Thinking Fast and Slow" Zero to One Dog Stars Deep Work So Good they Can't Ignore You Obstacle is the Way Mating in Captivity On Books episode about Mating in Captivity Catching the Big Fish episode The China Study Denial of Death (book) Marc Maron's WTF One Month Quip Today's ...
Apr 15, 2016•43 min•Ep. 223
In today's episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Chris Castiglione (@castig), one of the cofounders of One Month ( onemonth.com ). Mentioned or relevant to today's episode: @castig One Month On Books (iTunes) on-books.com "Learning About Learning" Jon Sonmez on Developer Tea (talking about a developer's brand) Today's episode is sponsored by Rollbar . With Rollbar, you get the context, insights and control you need to find and fix bugs faster. Rollbar is offering Developer Tea listeners t...
Apr 13, 2016•29 min•Ep. 222
Debugging is a part of every developer's career. In fact, a large portion of what developers do is fix code. In today's episode, I'm going to share with you two important mindsets to have to become a great debugger. Mentioned or Relevant to Today's Episode LiveReload Spring/Guard setup for Rails 4.1 Interesting discussion on debugging: "Toward a better programming" Today's episode is sponsored by Linode ! Head over to Linode.com/developertea or use the code DeveloperTea20 at checkout for a $20 c...
Apr 08, 2016•16 min•Ep. 220
In today's episode, we'll discuss a perspective, "interval thinking", that could help return your estimation efforts to a more sane place. Mentioned or relevant to today's episode Estimating Sandwiches Spec Today's episode is sponsored by Linode ! Head over to Linode.com/developertea or use the code DeveloperTea20 at checkout for a $20 credit towards your cloud hosting account! Thanks again to Linode for your support of Developer Tea. And lastly... Please take a moment and subscribe and review t...
Apr 06, 2016•11 min•Ep. 219
In today's episode, I want to give you a mindset for prioritization that I believe can stick with you for the rest of your career. Today's episode is sponsored by Linode ! Head over to Linode.com/developertea or use the code DeveloperTea20 at checkout for a $20 credit towards your cloud hosting account! Thanks again to Linode for your support of Developer Tea. And lastly... Please take a moment and subscribe and review the show! Click here to review Developer Tea in iTunes....
Apr 04, 2016•19 min•Ep. 218
In today's episode of Developer Tea, I issue a challenge to you, the listener, to be foolishly generous. Today's episode is sponsored by Linode ! Head over to Linode.com/developertea or use the code DeveloperTea20 at checkout for a $20 credit towards your cloud hosting account! Thanks again to Linode for your support of Developer Tea. And lastly... Please take a moment and subscribe and review the show! Click here to review Developer Tea in iTunes....
Apr 01, 2016•21 min•Ep. 217
In today's episode, I talk about bringing new team members up to speed (this is a question from listener Matt Gale). Mentioned or relevant to today's episode: Spec Slack Community UserOnboard.com Fixing the Broken Hiring Process Crafting a Better Interview Process Today's episode is sponsored by Hired.com ! If you are looking for a job as a developer or a designer and don't know where to start, head over to Hired now! If you get a job through this special link, you'll receive a $2,000 bonus - th...
Mar 30, 2016•14 min•Ep. 213
In today's episode, I'm celebrating an amazing 3 million listens (thank you!) by going back to the core fundamentals of Developer Tea: Focus. Developer Tea: Focus Seth Godin on Saying "no" Deep Work (Book, Cal Newport) Today's episode is sponsored by Rollbar . With Rollbar, you get the context, insights and control you need to find and fix bugs faster. Rollbar is offering Developer Tea listeners the Bootstrap Plan, free for 90 days (300,000 errors tracked for free)! And lastly... Please take a m...
Mar 28, 2016•17 min•Ep. 216
In today's episode, I talk about impostor syndrome, specifically as it relates to the experienced developer. Mentioned or relevant to today's episode Acceleration vs. Velocity Dunning Kruger Effect Today's episode is sponsored by Linode ! Head over to Linode.com/developertea or use the code DeveloperTea20 at checkout for a $20 credit towards your cloud hosting account! Thanks again to Linode for your support of Developer Tea. And lastly... Please take a moment and subscribe and review the show! ...
Mar 25, 2016•18 min•Ep. 212
In today's episode, I interview Sam Lambert, Director of Systems at GitHub . Mentioned or relevant to today's episode GitHub @isamlambert Hubot Slack (chat) Hubot plugins ChatOps: How GitHub Manages MySQL Hubot: The Hubber that never sleeps. Whiteboard GitHub Pull Request "DBA" - DataBase Administrator Today's episode is sponsored by Rollbar . With Rollbar, you get the context, insights and control you need to find and fix bugs faster. Rollbar is offering Developer Tea listeners the Bootstrap Pl...
Mar 23, 2016•25 min•Ep. 211
In today's episode, I interview Sam Lambert, Director of Systems at GitHub . Mentioned or relevant to today's episode GitHub.com Sam Lambert Example of a Systems Engineer job at GitHub (they're hiring!) Jonathan on GitHub Git (not GitHub) Subversion Mercurial (another SCM) git-svn Telemetry GitHub pull requests GitHub issues "Human Development" (Interview with Ernie Miller) Today's episode is sponsored by Hired.com ! If you are looking for a job as a developer or a designer and don't know where ...
Mar 21, 2016•21 min•Ep. 210
In today's episode, I answer a question from listener Simon about assimilating into a new culture. Simon's previous question (Developer Tea) Shivering (Wikipedia) Today's episode is sponsored by Linode ! Head over to Linode.com/developertea or use the code DeveloperTea20 at checkout for a $20 credit towards your cloud hosting account! Thanks again to Linode for your support of Developer Tea. And lastly... Please take a moment and subscribe and review the show! Click here to review Developer Tea ...
Mar 18, 2016•17 min•Ep. 209
In today's episode, I interview Kalid Azad, writer and teacher, and creator of BetterExplained.com. Mentioned or relevant to today's episode BetterExplained.com ADEPT method First part of this interview (Developer Tea) Imaginary Numbers (BetterExplained.com) Unity3d "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." "Your teacup is full." (Story about monk and full tea cup) @WesleyHales Brazilian Jiu-jitsu ShopTalkShow.com Sandi Metz Sandi's Talk at 2014 RailsConf xkcd: "tar" To...
Mar 16, 2016•55 min•Ep. 208
Mentioned on today's episode @betterexplained (Kalid on Twitter) War of Art ("Story of the Potter") Do The Work (Pressfield) Adam Savage's podcast, Untested BetterExplained.com @jeffrey_way Today's episode is sponsored by Hired.com ! If you are looking for a job as a developer or a designer and don't know where to start, head over to Hired now! If you get a job through this special link, you'll receive a $2,000 bonus - that's twice the normal bonus provided by Hired. Thanks again to Hired for sp...
Mar 14, 2016•35 min•Ep. 207
Crafting a Better Interview Process We surprisingly have no relevant non-sponsor links today, but take some time instead to think about and refine your interviewing process. You'll be surprised how much you will learn! Today's episode is sponsored by Linode ! Head over to Linode.com/developertea or use the code DeveloperTea20 at checkout for a $20 credit towards your cloud hosting account! Thanks again to Linode for your support of Developer Tea. And lastly... Please take a moment and subscribe ...
Mar 11, 2016•20 min•Ep. 206
In today's episode, I talk with Rachel Smith, a JavaScript developer currently working at CodePen! Mentioned or relevant to today's episode: CodePen @RachSmithTweets rachsmith on CodePen RachSmith.com Rachel's posts on Physics WebGL Quote (mentioned Edison in the episode, but actually this quote misattributed to Einstein ) Learning to Learn (Developer Tea episode) React (JavaScript framework) YDKJS DOM API Node JS Cheerio Geolocation API Today's episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean ! Use the co...
Mar 09, 2016•34 min•Ep. 205
In today's episode, I talk with Rachel Smith, a JavaScript developer currently working at CodePen! Mentioned or relevant to today's episode: CodePen @RachSmithTweets rachsmith on CodePen Web Animation API RachSmith.com Rachel's CodePen posts (blog) w3c mailing list ActiveTheory About CodePen (includes team bios) Trello Today's episode is sponsored by Hired.com ! If you are looking for a job as a developer or a designer and don't know where to start, head over to Hired now! If you get a job throu...
Mar 07, 2016•36 min•Ep. 204
In today's episode, I interview Kenneth Reitz, Python product owner at Heroku! Mentioned or Relevant: Kenneth Reitz @kennethreitz Python requests records Coding for Humans (Developer Tea episode) Remap caps lock Vim Emacs Evil (extensible vi layer) for Emacs Sublime Text Atom.io tmux Redmine Pycharm Emmet Emmet Vim Zen Coding -> Emmet Sparkup Djembe Ben Orenstein on Developer Tea Today's episode is sponsored by Linode ! Head over to Linode.com/developertea or use the code DeveloperTea20 at ch...
Mar 04, 2016•33 min•Ep. 203
In today's episode, I interview Kenneth Reitz, Python product owner at Heroku! Mentioned or Relevant: Kenneth Reitz @kennethreitz Python requests records MS Paint SlashWear Malware Museum Netapp Readability Heroku PyCon Django net/http (Ruby) MomentJS Today's episode is sponsored by Hired.com ! If you are looking for a job as a developer or a designer and don't know where to start, head over to Hired now! If you get a job through this special link, you'll receive a $2,000 bonus - that's twice th...
Mar 02, 2016•34 min•Ep. 202
Today's episode is the 200th episode of Developer Tea! In this episode, I skip the stats, and instead share with you some of the things I've learned along the way of building this podcast since last January. Spec Slack Community Medium Blogspot Developer Tea on iTunes Podcasts front page! Today's episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean ! Use the code DeveloperTea at checkout to get one month of a 1GB droplet, completely free! And lastly... Please take a moment and subscribe and review the show! Cl...
Feb 29, 2016•19 min•Ep. 201
Edward de Bono Edward de Bono's thinking hats Developer Tea is proudly supported by Dev Bootcamp, the original immersive coding program that transforms beginners into full-stack web developers. Head over to devbootcamp.com/developertea to learn more. And lastly... Please take a moment and subscribe and review the show! Click here to review Developer Tea in iTunes....
Feb 26, 2016•15 min•Ep. 200
In today's episode I have the pleasure of being joined by Jason Snell! Jason Snell @jsnell sixcolors.com snellworld.com snellworld.com Part One of the interview with Jason Snell Marco Arment Randy Ubillos on Twitter - "spent 20 years as chief architect for a number of Apple video and photo products" GitHub f.lux Productivity discussion : [5k iMac]http://www.apple.com/imac/() SmartDesk iPad Pro BBEdit Scrivener Slack Twitter Mailplane 1Writer Editorial Workflow.app Outlook Numbers Pages PHP 7 Sun...
Feb 24, 2016•34 min•Ep. 199
In today's episode I have the pleasure of being joined by Jason Snell! Jason Snell @jsnell sixcolors.com snellworld.com snellworld.com Mentioned or relevant to today's episode MacWorld PC World Upgrade Verge Re/code Buzzfeed NYT TechHive Inverted pyramid of journalism CNET review of the 2015 MacBook Hackintosh MSI Wind Notebook And lastly... Please take a moment and subscribe and review the show! Click here to review Developer Tea in iTunes....
Feb 22, 2016•24 min•Ep. 198
