Developer Tea

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 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.

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 the show! Click here to review Developer Tea in iTunes.

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.

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.

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 - that's twice the normal bonus provided by Hired. Thanks again to Hired for sponsoring the show! And lastly... Please take a moment and subscribe and review the show! Click here to review Developer Tea in iTunes.

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 moment and subscribe and review the show! Click here to review Developer Tea in iTunes.

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! Click here to review Developer Tea in iTunes.

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 Plan, free for 90 days (300,000 errors tracked for free)! And lastly... Please take a moment and subscribe and review the show! Click here to review Developer Tea in iTunes.

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 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 sponsoring the show! And lastly... Please take a moment and subscribe and review the show! Click here to review Developer Tea in iTunes.

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 in iTunes.