The Frontside Podcast
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.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 133
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2021
013: Ember-Metal, HTMLbars, and the death of script tags
Guest hosted by Ember Release Team member Stanley Stuart, this episode is a Canadian edition with Ember contributors mixonic (Matthew Beale) and mmun (Martin Muñoz). They talk about what’s up with Ha…
012: Is it OK to not love programming? (with Sarah Mei)
Sara Mei joins us this week to discuss passion and whether it's a job requirement that you "love programming". She’s a Chief Consultant at DevMynd, a co-founder of RailsBridge, and an all-around rad …
011: Hype Cycles and Reprogramming Your Brain
Michael Coté joins in a (sort-of) Drunk and Retired reunion to talk about Gartner's Hype Cycle, how it affects developers, and how they can actually benefit from understanding it. Coté is an Industry…
010: Reactive Modeling with Ember
Today, it’s Frontside’s 10th podcast! We’re talking primarily about Reactive Modeling with Ember.
On today’s episode, we’re diving further into Charles's blog post, and into seeing this as a new way …
009: How to tell if a jQuery plugin is about to stab you
In the episode, we discuss our Raspberry Pi projects, and dive into the problems inherent in adapting old-school jQuery plugins to modern client-side web applications.
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008: The Brandon Hays Advice Dispensary
This week, Brandon and Charles discuss how to become indispensable to your business, why writing less code is better in the long run, and more.
007: The Ember Router (with Alex Matchneer)
This week the Frontside nerds are joined by "Mr. Router" himself, Alex Matchneer.
We discuss the benefits & pain of routing in client-side applications, using the Ember router without Ember, how Alex…
006: Myth of the Lone Genius Programmer
This week Brandon and Charles discuss Brandon's perhaps-controversial appearance on JS Jabber, the dangers of being a solitary genius (the Goodwill Hunting myth), and why you aren't a special snowfla…
005: Backbone, Ember, and the "build your own Voltron" bias
We're back!
After a brief, unexplainable disappearance, Brandon and Charles have retuned to discuss their talks at RailsConf 2014, designing models, why writing a framework sucks, the library-author …
004: EmberConf Recap
Ember JS Conference Recap.
This week we discuss last month's EmberConf, what's going on with components, and the current state of testing in Ember and how developers are working towards making it eas…
003: Refactoring toward Ember
This week, we talk about Ember and how we use it in our web apps (hint: it's the future of the web).
002: Devil's Advocate
Client-side apps are great, but they're not perfect for every situation. Charles and Brandon discuss times single-page apps might not make sense. Also, they discuss how Jim Weirich affected their liv…
001: Hit me baby one more time
Charles and Brandon argue about what to name the podcast.
They talk about how "one more feature"-itis sinks many projects and startups, how you can recognize when you're caught in it, and patterns th…