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
Episodes
Mentioned books
Mar 20, 2015 • 38min
28: Richard Schneeman, Part Two - How to Start Contributing to Open Source, and Testing Refrigerators
Richard Schneeman, Ruby developer at Heroku and awesome guy, joins me for the longest episode to date. Follow Richard on Twitter, @schneems!
@Schneems
Testing the Untestable (about Refrigerators and testing)
Gowalla goes to Facebook
HipHop VM (Facebook PHP stuff)
What are Heroku buildpacks?
Jeffrey Way
Tuts+
Laracasts
Charlie Somerville
CodeTriage
DocsDoctor
Dogfooding
Derailed Benchmarks
Mar 18, 2015 • 28min
28: Richard Schneeman, Part One - How to Start Contributing to Open Source, and Testing Refrigerators
Richard Schneeman, Ruby developer at Heroku and awesome guy, joins me for the longest episode to date. Follow Richard on Twitter, @schneems!
@Schneems
Testing the Untestable (about Refrigerators and testing)
Gowalla goes to Facebook
HipHop VM (Facebook PHP stuff)
What are Heroku buildpacks?
Jeffrey Way
Tuts+
Laracasts
Charlie Somerville
CodeTriage
DocsDoctor
Dogfooding
Derailed Benchmarks
Mar 17, 2015 • 8min
Inspiration Episode #4: Learning Like Children through Play
Children learn at an incredible rate. They also play significantly more than the average adult. Many studies have shown the importance of play for children in the learning process - so the question is, why don't we practice "play" as adults?
Episode 4: Learning About Learning
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Mar 16, 2015 • 15min
27: Ensuring Professionalism - Rules I Practice
In this episode, I discuss some of my personal rules for maintaining a reputation of professionalism.
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Mar 13, 2015 • 11min
26: To Generalize, or to Specialize, that is the Question... Part Two
Should you be a generalized programmer or a specialized programmer? Generalized programmers learn a wide range of languages and/or frameworks, while a specialized programmer becomes an expert in something very specific. There are pros and cons to both, and in this episode, we'll discuss both.
Mar 12, 2015 • 6min
Inspiration Episode #3: The Day the Beatles Were Rejected
Unless you're extraordinarily lucky, you'll be rejected multiple times in your life. Whether in your personal or professional life, rejection is a normal part of life, even for the best of the best (like the Beatles). In this episode, I encourage you to move past your rejection.
Mar 11, 2015 • 12min
26: To Generalize, or to Specialize, that is the Question... Part One
Should you be a generalized programmer or a specialized programmer? Generalized programmers learn a wide range of languages and/or frameworks, while a specialized programmer becomes an expert in something very specific. There are pros and cons to both, and in this episode, we'll discuss both.
Mar 9, 2015 • 15min
25: "What Should I Build?" - 5 Tips for Better Idea Generation
In this episode, I answer a question I've received from many listeners: How do I come up with an idea for something to build?
This question is somewhat complex, but we'll cover 5 basic tips for idea generation.
Mar 6, 2015 • 22min
24: Scott Jehl on Responsible Responsive Design and Progressive Enhancement, Part Two
Scott Jehl is a designer and developer working at Filament Group. Scott is also an author and speaks regularly at conferences like An Event Apart. In this interview, Scott and I discuss progressive enhancement and his book, Responsible Responsive Design.
Mentioned at some point in the interview:
ScottJehl.com, Scott's Twitter, Scott's GitHub
Filament Group
Responsible Responsive Design (book)
Designing with Progressive Enhancement (book)
Critical (Addy Osmani)
Critical CSS (Filament Group)
loadCSS
Mar 5, 2015 • 4min
Inspiration Episode #2: Coding for Humans
Today, I talk about coding for humans in this special Inspiration episode. Remember, computers are only what you tell them to be!
