

Developer Tea
Jonathan Cutrell
Developer Tea exists to help driven developers connect to their ultimate purpose and excel at their work so that they can positively impact the people they influence.
With over 17 million downloads to date, Developer Tea is a short podcast hosted by Jonathan Cutrell, engineering leader with over 15 years of industry experience. We hope you'll take the topics from this podcast and continue the conversation, either online or in person with your peers. Email: developertea@gmail.com
With over 17 million downloads to date, Developer Tea is a short podcast hosted by Jonathan Cutrell, engineering leader with over 15 years of industry experience. We hope you'll take the topics from this podcast and continue the conversation, either online or in person with your peers. Email: developertea@gmail.com
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Nov 27, 2015 • 14min
Part One: The Great Framework Debate
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Mentioned on today's episode
"Cost of Frameworks Recap", CSS Tricks
Framework vs. Toolkit vs. Library (Stackoverflow)
jQuery
Ember.js
Ruby on Rails
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Nov 26, 2015 • 4min
Turkey & Tea
Happy Thanksgiving! Thank you for listening to Developer Tea. In today's short special episode, I issue a challenge for you!

Nov 25, 2015 • 17min
Listener Question: Jean-Michel Asks, "How Do You Know When It's Time To Lead A Team That Has No Leader?"
In today's episode, I respond to Jean-Michel's question about when it's time to step up and lead a team that currently has no leader.
Mentioned on today's episode (or otherwise relevant)
Spec Slack Community
Android and iOS
Leadership Skills of Socrates
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Nov 23, 2015 • 20min
Listener Question: Mark asks, "What's Happening to the Ruby Developer Community?"
What's happening to the Ruby community? Is it flailing, or doing just fine? Some evidence and simple logic says both are possible. Let's explore it a bit further in today's episode!
Mentioned in today's episode:
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
GitHub
GitHut.info
JavaScript
CSS
NodeJS
PHP
WordPress
Laravel
Java
Android
Python
GitHub blog post about language popularity
Avdi Grimm's discussion about the Soul of Software
Jeff Atwood explains "Why Ruby" for Discourse
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And lastly...
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Nov 20, 2015 • 42min
Makers Versus Menders with Andrea Goulet (@andreagoulet)
Today I talk with Andrea Goulet about software "makers and menders." Andrea is the CEO of CorgiBytes. Listen in if you are interested in refactoring and green field projects, and the difference between the two!
Mentioned on today's show:
@andreagoulet on Twitter
CorgiBytes
@CorgiBytes on Twitter
Makers versus Menders
Scott on Twitter (@mscottford)
GitHub
Refactoring to Patterns (Martin Fowler)
Michael Feathers
Arlo Belshee's process for naming things
"Practical Refactoring" video (~2 hours)
Slack
.Net Webforms
Exercism
"Adopting a growth mindset" - Carol Dweck Ted Talk
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Nov 18, 2015 • 12min
Thinking Small
In today's episode, we talk about solving small problems. I'll give you a few tips for scoping your problems down to be smaller.
Mentioned on today's show
Think Like a Freak (book)
Freakonomics Radio (podcast)
Spec.fm
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Nov 16, 2015 • 13min
Focus, Fear, and Missing Out: Picking Tools Without Anxiety
In today's episode, we talk about FoMO (the fear of missing out) as it relates to deciding what tools to use.
Mentioned on today's episode:
FoMO
ratemyfomo.com
Aziz Ansari (comedian, actor) discusses FoMO
News article about YouTube upload volume (from back in 2010)
The growth of languages on GitHub
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Nov 13, 2015 • 19min
The Frontend at Whiteboard
In today's episode I talk about some of the front-end tools we use at Whiteboard.
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Mentioned on today's episode:
Bower
Node
NPM
Gulp
Grunt
Composer
Typekit
Fonts.com
CDNJS
Handlebars
Cloudflare
Digital Ocean
Linode
WP Engine
Heroku
JavaScript.com
Babel
ES6 / ES2015
jQuery
Zepto
React
JSX
Underscore.js
Slick.js
Handlebars
D3.js
Polyfills
Request animation frame
Sass (SCSS)
Launchframe
SCSS-lint
Bootstrap 4 Alpha
BEM CSS
Octicon
Fontawesome
Today's episode is sponsored by Hired.com! If you are a developer or a designer looking for a job, Hired is a fantastic place to begin your journey! The special link for a doubled bonus is https://hired.com/developertea.
And lastly...
Please take a moment and subscribe and review the show! Click here to open Developer Tea in iTunes.

Nov 11, 2015 • 20min
How To Make Small Things A Big Deal, Plus: Celebrating 2 Million Listens!
Thank you for helping Developer Tea make it to 2 million listens! This is a major milestone for the show.
Not many external resources were mentioned on today's episode, but I'd love to invite you to leave a review on iTunes!
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Nov 9, 2015 • 19min
Getting The Most Out Of A Conference
Today, we talk about participating in conferences, both as a speaker and as an attendee.
Mentioned on or relevant to today's episode:
2015 CSS Dev Conf
Speaking.io (speaking resources for beginners)
SassConf
SassSummit - Use the discount code "CUTRELL" to get 20% off! Attend online from anywhere in the world.
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