Last episode we talked to Gina Trapani about her Lifehacker days. In this episode, we look to the future and hear about her work at Postlight, what its like to work with Paul Ford (Episode 82), and what she looks for when shes hiring an engineer. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Postlight Lifehacker IBM PC Junior Track Changes Paul Ford episode Meet the Twitter API (book) The End of ThinkUp ThinkUp Anil Dash TWiG (This Week in Google) Leo Laporte TWiT Danny O'Brien "father...
Aug 01, 2016•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Once upon a time, Gina Trapani started Lifehacker. It got big, really big, with the ups and downs of being the sole editor responsible for a website that millions of people read. But after awhile, she wanted to get back to coding. In part one of our two-part interview, Gina talks to us about her journey going from famous blogger to product creator, the risks of building an app based on APIs, and what it felt like to shut down her company. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) D...
Jul 25, 2016•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ashley Lewis used to light stages. She worked as a theater technician working shows like Hamilton (when it was much smaller) and New York Fashion Week. But after some introspection, she realized that her passion wasnt in light design, and she searched for other career options. She talks to us about the similarities between coding and her art background, what its like working as a theater technician, and how being introspective has helped her on her coding journey. Show Links Partner with Dev &am...
Jul 18, 2016•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nickolas Means talked about airplanes, and in doing so, he connected them with code in beautiful and interesting ways. In this interview, Nick explains how to take seemingly disconnected subjects and put them together in compelling talks, and how he uses his public speaking training to turn these talks into inspiring performances. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Ruby Conf 2015 Brandon Hays Strunk and White's Elements of Style Here Be Dragons Scott Hanselman Conway's Law S...
Jul 11, 2016•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast When one man decided to crowdfund a bailout for Greece on Indiegogo (a feat that required over a billion dollars), Stella Cotton and her team found themselves in trouble. The site went down, and they had to figure out what to do. Stella takes us through the journey of getting the Indiegogo site back up, shares what shes learned about site availability and what CodeNewbies can do to be ready for their own heavy traffic. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Apache bench REDIS He...
Jul 04, 2016•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lil Chen has been in gaming for years. She started by playing video games, then become a competitive Super Smash Brothers player, and now works as a UX Designer at YouTube Gaming. We talk about how her long history in gaming affects her work as a designer and vice versa, and how she keeps up with her coding skills at night. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) YouTube Gaming TED Talks Xanga MVP car graphic Sailor Moon Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Jun 27, 2016•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Michael Rau didnt want to build an app, he wanted to create an experience. So he constructed a physical room, and with the help of a Rails app, created a theater show called Temping. He talks through his concept, how he used his new coding skills to make it happen, and the surprising emotional reactions hes witnessed from audience members whove tried his creation. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Hue lights Storytelling with Code talk Mail Gun API AppleScript General Assem...
Jun 20, 2016•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Fereshteh Forough wanted to help women in Afghanistan. She knew that attaining education was difficult, let alone technical training, and the cultural attitudes towards women didnt help. But she tackled these issues head on by starting the first coding school for women in Afghanistan. She talks to us about how she started the program, how she took on the different challenges her students face, and how her training in computer science and her previous role as a computer science professor affected...
Jun 13, 2016•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast In part two of our interview with Yehuda Katz, we talk about how he created EmberJS, and what it means to build a web framework. We also talk about what it means to be a beginner, and how growing up poor has influenced his perspectives as a coder today. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Liz Bailie YAGNI EmberJS John Resig's Interview on CodeNewbie jQuery FrontPage Visual Basic Q Basic GW Basic Glimmer Oauth Skylight Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Jun 05, 2016•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Yehuda Katz has done many, many code things. He co-created Ember.js, co-founded a tech startup Tilde, is a frequent contributor to open source projects including Handlebars, Bundler, and Thor, and is a member of the Rust Core Team. But it took years of playing with tech before he finally felt like coding was something he could do. In the first half of our two-part interview, he talks about what he looks for when he hires, how it took him years to feel like he could code, and why he doesnt like t...
May 30, 2016•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kaya Thomas has done a lot in a short period of time. Shes met first lady Michelle Obama, shes a mobile app developer, and she was selected as Glamours Top Ten College Women of the Year. She talks about how shes managed to be so successful while still a college student, the role of luck and hard work, and her process for learning new coding skills so quickly. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Processing.js Tilt Factor Labs GitHub Pages Professor Mary Flannigan Meta data gam...
May 23, 2016•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast In December, CodeNewbie put out applications for the CodeNewbie Apprenticeship, and in 10 days received 322 applications from all over the world. Many interviews later, Sharon Siegel was chosen to be the first apprentice. She talks about her coding journey, her passion and active involvement in building coding communities, and her goal of moving into a full-time developer role. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Project Euler RailsBridge Rails Pair programming Firehose Proje...
May 16, 2016•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plenty of organizations work to help vets. But what vet Jerome Hardaway noticed about these organizations is that they were mostly reactive. While they responded to problems, few worked to prevent them. So Jerome decided to create a non-profit to teach vets how to code, making it easier for them to start a tech career and better adjust to life back at home. We talk about the program, the stigma of being a vet, and Jeromes own journey to being a developer. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNe...
May 09, 2016•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Mark Nadal was a front end developer looking for a better database. So he built his own. He walks us through the different types of databases, the limitations you might run into as you use them, and why he decided to build his own graph database. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Twitter Fail Whale Redis Alan Turing Turing Completeness neo4j Titan (distributed graph database) Joe Armstrong GunDB Tuple Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
May 02, 2016•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Chris loves writing tutorials for beginners, and he gets to do it for Mozilla. We talk about the different parts of good technical writing, how he manages to maintain that beginner mindset, and how he combines technical knowledge and solid, good writing to make code more accessible. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) CodePen Bugzilla Smashing Magazine A List Apart Write The Docs Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Apr 25, 2016•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Anna Lee spent years as a researcher. Going from a world of pharmaceutical science to being a front end web developer was definitely a leap, one she successfully made after quitting her job and doing an online course. Now she works at Society of Grownups. Anna talks to us about her coding journey, what that first day was like, and how her experience as a researcher has impacted her as a developer. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Society of Grownups Kristy Tillman episode ...
Apr 18, 2016•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast As a podcaster of several very popular tech shows, Chuck gets questions from listeners all the time. One of the most popular questions he gets is one that you might also be asking, How do you get a coding job? In this episode, we dive into the journey of not just coding but landing a coding job, the pitfalls along the way, and how a code newbie can increase their chances of getting an offer. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Gregg Pollack Ruby on Rails Podcast James Edward ...
Apr 11, 2016•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Paul Ford didnt expect his article on coding to go big. But almost a year later, the Bloomberg issue dedicated to What is code? is still completely sold out. We dig into the major topics covered in that long and highly entertaining piece, like conferences, open source, and languages, and how Paul and the editors created a technical article that still managed to be accessible to coder and non-coders alike. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) What is code? article Code (book) C...
Apr 04, 2016•1 hr 29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coraline wears the Social Justice Warrior title proudly. She fights the battles, working tirelessly to create safer spaces for more people in tech. But noble as her cause may be, it is not without controversy. We talk to Coraline about what it means to be a social justice warrior, how shes dealt with the trolling and harassment that comes with it, and how she stays above it and continues to fight. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Mar 28, 2016•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kristen Smith has spent a lot of time creating just the right spaces for making. In her years working on spaces with Kohls, FabCafe, and now littleBits, shes crafted experiences to get people excited about hardware, and using their creativity in new and innovative ways. We talk about what makes a good makerspace, what the behind-the-scenes of one looks like, and how she leveraged her liberal arts degrees to make the tech world more accessible. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (spons...
Mar 21, 2016•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Mike Senese has always loved tech. He grew up around it, and his fascination and curiosity led him to not only make stuff, but share it with the world. Hes written for tech publications, like Wired and Make Magazine, and hosted a number of TV shows covering a range of science and tech topics. For our second episode of March Is For Makers, Mike talks to us about how he transforms complex technical information into accessible stories, how he got started making, and how the maker movement has chang...
Mar 14, 2016•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Emily Xie spends most of her time coding in PHP. But recently, she got a chance to do some making by organizing a laser-cutting class for her Girl Develop It chapter. In our first episode for March Is For Makers, our month-long celebration of everything making, we dig into the differences of software and hardware, and how Emily's software background gave her an interesting perspective on her laser-cutting experience. Make sure to check out marchisformakers.com for more maker content with our par...
Mar 07, 2016•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Chiu-Ki Chan believes in speaking. Best case scenario, speaking gives her a way to share her journey and accomplishments. Worst case scenario, its a way to help her make small talk with other conference goers. Either way, she wins. She talks to us about starting Technically Speaking, a digest highlighting talks and open calls for proposals, about how she successfully shares her career achievements without feeling too self-promoting, and how she helps others do the same. Show Links Partner with D...
Feb 29, 2016•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast When Matt Mitchell saw the news anchor mention his home country of Grenada, he sat up straight. But his excitement soon turned to confusion when this trusted tv newscaster mispronounced names and places in Grenada, and declared facts that conflicted with reports from his relatives back home. It made him think hard about where data comes from, who tells it, and how it can shift as it exchanges hands. That was the beginning of his passion for news and his work in data journalism. He tells us about...
Feb 22, 2016•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Juan loves his home country, Colombia. But he was frustrated by the pervasive negative headlines describing the country as dangerous. He knew Colombias potential, and he wanted to show the world what it was capable of. So he started organizing tech conferences. We talk about how conferences have helped grow and strengthen the Latin America tech community, and how Juan manages to do this work from his home in New York. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) JS Conf Columbia Ruby ...
Feb 15, 2016•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Majora Carter grew up in the South Bronx, and has spent her life building up the community she loves. Recently, that work has become a bit more technical. She tells us how she created Startup Box, a company focused on providing training and jobs for in-demand roles in quality assurance. We talk about the importance of QA roles in dev, why this work is particularly meaningful to her, and how shes able to bring her expertise in urban revitalization to the tech world. Show Links Partner with Dev &a...
Feb 08, 2016•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast She spent over 12 years as a chef. But when Adrienne Lowe decided to invest in coding skills, she didnt want to leave her culinary love behind. So she merged those two worlds in her blog, a mix of tech and food that got her invited to talk at conference and fall deeper into the coding world shed discovered. Adrienne shares how she uses her cooking skills to be a better coder, how her love of the python community has made her a passionate community builder, and how a major life event got her star...
Feb 01, 2016•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Chris Palmer spends his time thinking about how to make a browser more secure. But security is a broad concept that can mean different things to different people, and part of a developers job is balancing those needs. We talk to Chris about how he makes security decisions and what new developers should consider when thinking about security in the products they build. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Facebook's Free Basic Program Nodeschool Bruce Schneier Hackbright Academy...
Jan 25, 2016•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Danilo lived in public housing until he was two. Now a self-taught iOS developer, hes using his technical skills and personal journey to help bring the internet to the thousands living in public housing in the US. We talk to Danilo about the importance of the ConnectHome project, how he navigated his own coding journey, and how he wish he knew sooner that programming wasnt something that other people did, and that he could do it too. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Github...
Jan 18, 2016•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Christina started as a server administrator. But over the years, she found her way into information security, now serving as VP of Technology and Information Risk at Morgan Stanley. She talks to us about the vast world of security, why CodeNewbies should care about security even as developers, and how shes navigated her own coding journey. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Github Server Administration General Assembly Rebecca Garcia Interview ASP.NET Visual Basic Active Dir...
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