

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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Apr 20, 2015 • 13min
Answering Listener Questions - Clyde Asks About Learning to Code while on the Road
In today's episode, Clyde asks about learning to code while on the road. If you've ever tried to focus in a new environment, or if you are learning to code while changing locations, this episode is for you!
Today's episode is sponsored by Intuit. Check out http://intuit.me/DevTea to get started developing for millions of businesses, for free, today!

Apr 17, 2015 • 40min
Part 2: Ben Lesh on Reactive Programming at Netflix, Massive Data, and the Threadsafe Future
Ben Lesh is a senior UI engineer at Netflix, where he works on projects that use reactive programming in JavaScript to manage massive amounts of data. Ben talks with me about a variety of topics, focusing on reactive programming and data stream processing. Ben also gives his advice to you, whether you are a young developer or well into your career. Make sure you Tweet at Ben at https://twitter.com/benlesh and thank him for coming on the show!
Links:
Reactive all the Things, Ben's talk at ng-conf
BaconJS
RXJS
Jobs at Netflix
Today's episode is sponsored by DigitalOcean. Go to https://digitalocean.com to get started, and use the promo code "DeveloperTea" on the billing page after you create your account to get a $10 credit!

Apr 15, 2015 • 22min
Part 1: Ben Lesh on Reactive Programming at Netflix, Massive Data, and the Threadsafe Future
Ben Lesh is a senior UI engineer at Netflix, where he works on projects that use reactive programming in JavaScript to manage massive amounts of data. Ben talks with me about a variety of topics, focusing on reactive programming and data stream processing. Ben also gives his advice to you, whether you are a young developer or well into your career. Make sure you Tweet at Ben at https://twitter.com/benlesh and thank him for coming on the show!
Links:
Reactive all the Things, Ben's talk at ng-conf
BaconJS
RXJS
Jobs at Netflix

Apr 14, 2015 • 9min
How We Spend Our Days, How We Spend Our Lives, and One Way To Get a Better Grasp On Time
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. But how can we get a better grasp on time? In this episode, I share a simple tip that exploits our brain's natural tendency to take shortcuts to help you better experience time and avoid the feeling of "time flying by" faster than you'd like.
Today's episode is sponsored by OneMonth.com - go to http://onemonth.com/developertea to get 25% off your first month!

Apr 13, 2015 • 9min
Taking Best Practices and Advice with a Grain of Salt
In this episode, we talk about "best practices" and advice, and what you should do with those things in your day to day life.
Today's episode sponsored by Intuit! Head over to http://intuit.me/DevTea to get started!

Apr 10, 2015 • 20min
Ernie Miller and Human Development, Part Two (at Ancient City Ruby)
I had the pleasure of attending Ancient City Ruby and interviewing a few folks while I was there. Ernie Miller was a speaker at ACR, and also sat down with me to talk about agile, humane development, and the implications of technically oriented people making a track switch to management. Thanks, Ernie! Don't forget to follow @erniemiller on Twitter and let him know you enjoyed hearing him on @DeveloperTea!
Links:
Humane Development
erniemiller.org
@erniemiller
Agile is dead. (Long live agility.)
TDD is dead. Long live testing.
@DeveloperTea
developertea.com
Today's episode is sponsored by Intuit Developer. Get started developing applications for millions of business already using Quickbooks at intuit.me/DevTea today!
You can also give back to Developer Tea by going to https://developertea.com/donate!

Apr 9, 2015 • 9min
Estimating Sandwiches: Why the Gut Doesn't Work, and How Small Is Better
This episode is all about estimation, and how important it is to focus on estimating small things, and understand the implications of scale on your estimations.
This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean, cloud SSD hosting that you can deploy in just 55 seconds. Use the code "DeveloperTea" to get $10 off today at http://digitalocean.com - plans start at just $5/month!

Apr 8, 2015 • 18min
Ernie Miller and Human Development, Part One (at Ancient City Ruby)
I had the pleasure of attending Ancient City Ruby and interviewing a few folks while I was there. Ernie Miller was a speaker at ACR, and also sat down with me to talk about agile, humane development, and the implications of technically oriented people making a track switch to management. Thanks, Ernie! Don't forget to follow @erniemiller on Twitter and let him know you enjoyed hearing him on @DeveloperTea!
Links:
Humane Development
erniemiller.org
@erniemiller
Agile is dead. (Long live agility.)
TDD is dead. Long live testing.
@DeveloperTea
developertea.com
Give back to Developer Tea by going to https://developertea.com/donate!

Apr 6, 2015 • 8min
Inspiration Episode #6: 4 Tips for Starting from Ground Zero, and Celebrating 500k listens!
In today's episode, I'm ecstatic to announce 500k unique listens! That's half of a million, if you didn't already pick up on that.
I'm looking forward to the 1 million mark with all of you!
I also discuss a few tips for starting from ground zero. Thank you for your support!
If you'd like to give back to Developer Tea, head over to http://developertea.com/donate - every donation is a huge help to making this show a reality 4 days a week!

Apr 3, 2015 • 35min
32: Rebecca Murphey on Scoutfiles, Hardware Hacking, and Chickens
Today I interview Rebecca Murphey, one of the JavaScript community's most memorable voices and a genuine, kind person. Rebecca has been doing JavaScript for quite a few years, and you might know her from yayQuery and other jQuery-related things, her work at Bocoup, or her writing on rmurphey.com. Rebecca now works at BazaarVoice. In this interview, we discuss a myriad of things, including the difficulties of writing third-party JavaScript, working with hardware, and her open source efforts on Scoutfile.
Thank you for listening! Remember, you can support the show by going to https://developertea.com/donate
Mentioned on the show:
BazaarVoice.com has some career opportunities
Alex Sexton - @slexaxton
Deploying JavaScript Applications
yayQuery
Paul Irish
Dojo Toolkit
socket.io
Scoutfile
Discussion about 14kb first round trip request
NodeJS
Johnny5
Bocoup
bo-coop
Arduino


