It's like hanging out at our software studio in Austin, Texas with Charles Lowell and the Frontside Team. We talk to smart people about how to make the world of software better for the people who make and use it. Managed and produced by @therubyrep.
This week, Charles, Lydia and Alex go on a deep dive into immutability and the importance of literate programming.
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Allison McMillan (from General Assembly) joins us this week to talk about working remotely.
She shares great tips for finding your first remote development job, how to be a more effective remote empl…
Mando Escamilla joins us this week to talk about balancing work and family life, how being a better parent can make you a better programmer, why staying up late is a false economy, and more.
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Jamie White joins us this week to talk about preparing for a conference talks, organizing meetups, tips for starting conversations with strangers at meetups, how to design a community, and more.
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Robert Jackson works at Aptible and is a member of the Ember core team. In this episode, we discuss how he got into Ember, his past experience with running a business, how he manages his OSS workflow…
We're joined this week by special guest Trek Glowacki. Trek is a member of the Ember core team and maintains Pretender.js. We discuss how Trek got started with programming, Ember (of course), getting…
This week, Brandon and Charles sit down to talk about communication at work, the importance of being honest with your employees even when it's painful, how to build trust in work relationships, why c…
What separates a senior developer from a junior developer?
With Charles back from sunny Finland, the guys are back to podcasting! This week, they're talking about what makes someone a senior develope…
This week we're joined by Matthew Beale to talk about Ember 2.0 and more.
Matthew shares his path to programming and getting involved with Ember, why the core team is focusing on making Ember 2.0 fut…
This week, Brandon and Charles discuss feeling like a phony (imposter syndrome), and why “get over it” is not an appropriate response to the problem.
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We're joined this week by Mitch Lloyd to talk about Ember Islands, the difficulties of making great training materials and screencasts, and more.
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Charles, Brandon and Stanley are joined by Luke Melia to discuss being early adopters of Ember, Ember CLI Deploy, and growing the Ember community.
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Charles, Brandon and Stanley wrap up part two of their discussion about their favorite talks and technologies from EmberConf 2015. Stanley sings a Staind song, and proposes to the entire internet.
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Charles and Brandon share their foodie weekend experiences, and discuss EmberConf 2015; highlights and what they learned.
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This week, Charles, Brandon and Stanley were joined by Tom Dale and Alex Matchneer.
They took a trip in the way-back machine to discuss how they got started in programming and web development.
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Toran Billups joins us for this week's Frontside podcast.
We had a great conversation about test driven development, code rot, the challenges of bringing back-end programmers into front-end testing, …
This week, Charles shares an experience he had at a group Ukulele lesson with his son, and applies the lessons he learned there towards hiring and creating roles to utilize junior level talent in sof…
Jamison Dance joins Brandon and Stanley to talk about how to make music with your browser, hosting JS Jabber, and the direction of the JavaScript community.
We discuss the Javascript Audio API, how t…
We're back! Today on the Frontside, we're going to be talking about what we've learned about software consulting over the past year.
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