Developer Tea

Jonathan Cutrell
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Feb 4, 2015 • 16min

14: Daniel Kao - Self Control: Cutting Sugar for a Year, and Starting a Career in Something You Have No Experience in, On Purpose

In this episode, I interview front-end developer Daniel Kao. Daniel has been running his site, Diplateevo.com, since his freshman year in high school. Mentioned: Diplateevo (Daniel's site) One year without sweets @Diplateevo @DeveloperTea
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Feb 2, 2015 • 11min

13: Flexibility

In this episode, I discuss flexibility. Why is flexibility important, and what can you do to make your code and your workflow more flexible? I'll share something I did recently that made creating this podcast a bit easier to accomplish. @developertea If you are enjoying the show, would you consider buying me some tea?
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Jan 30, 2015 • 19min

12: Chris Coyier, Part Two - Getting Good At Pretty Much Anything

On this episode, I continue the interview Chris Coyier. Chris is the creator of CSS-Tricks.com, Codepen.io, and hosts Shoptalk Show with Dave Rupert. In this second part of a two-part interview, Chris and I talk about getting good at being a musician (or at cutting hair), why we rewrite code we've already written, and lots of other necessary things. Mentioned: ShoptalkShow.com Codepen.io css-tricks.com DeveloperTea.com Don't forget to subscribe, rate/review on iTunes, and get in touch! Twitter: @developertea Email: developertea@gmail.com If you are enjoying the show, would you consider buying me some tea?
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Jan 28, 2015 • 16min

12: Chris Coyier, Part One - The Lifecycle of the Web and the Non-Evil of Doing Business

On this episode, I interview Chris Coyier. Chris is the creator of CSS-Tricks.com, Codepen.io, and hosts Shoptalk Show with Dave Rupert. In this first part of a two-part interview, Chris and I talk about how he got started with CSS Tricks. We also talk about what it's like to make such a massive amount of freely available resources. Mentioned: ShoptalkShow.com Codepen.io css-tricks.com DeveloperTea.com Don't forget to subscribe, rate/review on iTunes, and get in touch! Twitter: @developertea Email: developertea@gmail.com If you are enjoying the show, would you consider buying me some tea?
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Jan 26, 2015 • 15min

11: Justin Weiss - choosing Rails, guest hosting on Ruby Tapas, and enjoying Ruby

Ruby developer and author Justin Weiss joins me to talk about his experience working with Avdi Grimm on a guest episode for Ruby Tapas, why he chose Rails, and his book. Then, Justin gives you his 30-second suggestion to help you become a better developer. Mentioned: Justin's book, Practicing Rails https://www.justinweiss.com/book/ Justin's Blog: http://www.justinweiss.com/ Sign up for Justin's awesome weekly newsletter: http://www.justinweiss.com/list/ If you are enjoying the show, would you consider buying me some tea?
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Jan 23, 2015 • 8min

10: Approaching Programmatic Problems

In this episode, I talk about how I approach programmatic problems, and I give all developers my opinionated understanding of the most important factor of problem solving: imparting knowledge into your problem solving mechanisms. Note: there was a bit of an audio issue with the compression on this episode; we'll be fixing it in future episodes. Sorry about that! If you are enjoying the show, would you consider buying me some tea?
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Jan 21, 2015 • 12min

9: Stuff I'm using these days, edition one

In this episode, I share some of the stuff I've been using. None of these folks are sponsoring the show. Mentioned: Ruby - https://www.ruby-lang.org Rails - http://rubyonrails.org Grape - https://github.com/intridea/grape Sinatra - http://www.sinatrarb.com Focus at Will - https://www.focusatwill.com vim - http://vim.org Sublime Text 2 - http://www.sublimetext.com/2 Thoughtbot's thoughts on vim: http://robots.thoughtbot.com/tags/vim Upcase - https://upcase.com Simplenote - http://simplenote.com Drafts - http://agiletortoise.com/drafts Quiver - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quiver-programmers-notebook/id866773894 http://developertea.com, http://twitter.com/developertea, developertea@gmail.com Also, here's Yehuda Katz's positive thoughts on vim from back in 2010, despite the title: Everyone who tried to convince me to use vim was wrong And reasons why you might consider emacs: Should I learn to use emacs? (Stackoverflow) If you enjoyed this episode, please consider buying me some tea.
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Jan 19, 2015 • 7min

8: The Hardest Parts of Computer Science

In this episode, we cover (only 2 of) the hardest parts of computer science. Spoiler alert: this short podcast will not solve all of your complex coding conundrums, but it will provide you with some alliterative show notes. Martin Fowler's quotation of Phil Karlton here: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html If you enjoyed this episode, please consider buying me some tea.
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Jan 16, 2015 • 20min

7: Part two - The $150,000 Question About Design School

On today's episode, I talk with Nick Morrison and Kody Dahl, both students about to graduate from the design BFA program at Georgia State University, for the second part of our interview. Kody and Nick are both incredibly hard-working folks who happen to also work at Whiteboard. In part two, we have a discussion about their professors, design software, life skills, and we (try) to answer the $150,000 question. A big thanks to Nick and Kody! Follow them: @Nickm717 @kodieodie
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Jan 14, 2015 • 11min

7: Part one - An Underground Cohort of Design Professors, with Kody Dahl and Nick Morrison

On today's episode, I talk with Nick Morrison and Kody Dahl, both students about to graduate from the design BFA program at Georgia State University. Kody and Nick are both incredibly hard-working folks who happen to also work at Whiteboard. In part one, we start a discussion on formal design education. The interview went quite a bit longer than we expected it to go, so I've decided to split the interview into two parts, which will both be released this week. A big thanks to Nick and Kody! Follow them. @Nickm717 @kodieodie If you enjoyed this episode, please consider buying me some tea.

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