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Ep. 55 - Open Source Contributor (Steve Klabnik)
The first open source project Steve Klabnik got involved with was a pretty big one - he took on Hackety Hack, the beloved application that helped kids learn to code. He only meant to help out, but when no else joined, he ended up running the show, and diving headfirst into the open source world. Now, many years and pull requests later, Klabnik shares how he went from Hackety Hack to contributing to Rails to working full-time on the Rust language, and gives us a beginner-friendly overview of the open source world and many lessons he’s learned along the way. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) _why Survivorship Bias High Five bot Rust language Sidekiq Ryan Seashore The Long Tail Code for America Hackety Hack Code Now Discourse Summer of Code Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 54 - The Hacker (Jonathan Barronville)
Jonathan hacks away on his search engine at Harvard’s Innovation Lab, fine tuning it for the fashion queries his startup handles. He doesn’t have a computer science degree. He doesn’t have a degree at all. But at 21, he’s been able to hack together a tech education that involves reading academic papers, implementing solutions he finds, and lots and lots of searching. He shares his process for hacking and what he’s learned along the way. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) Scott Hanselman Scott Hanselman on CodeNewbie Podcast Elasticsearch word net Solr search ConceptNet Rails is a Ghetto Zed Shaw on CodeNewbie Podcast Harvard's Innovation Lab Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 53 - Peruvian Developer (Andrea Del Rio)
Andrea Del Rio talks about her role as a Mozilla Open Web fellow, how she’s using her technical skills to help civil society organizations, and what it’s like to build products for the Association for Progressive Communications. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) HackerYou Civil society organization APC (Association for Progressive Communications) Mozilla-Knight Open Web Fellows Laboratoria Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 52 - International Dev (Ayori Selassie)
Ayori Selassie talks to us about how she navigated her career at Salesforce, moving seamlessly across different roles developing her technical and management skills. She also tells us about her work and time spent in different countries working in the tech space, and how her participation in the State Department’s TechWomen Program helped her better understand the international tech landscape. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) TechWomen Program Sailor Moon GeoCities John Henry Thompson Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 51 - The Pragmatic Programmer - Part II (Dave Thomas)
In part two of our interview with Dave Thomas, we dive into some of his other contributions to the community, including coining the phrase “DRY” (Don’t Repeat Yourself), popularizing the code kata, and signing the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. We explore the impacts of these contributions, particularly to code newbie community. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) Code Kata DRY SOLID Manifesto for Agile Software Development Agile Is Dead Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 50 - The Pragmatic Programmer Part I (Dave Thomas)
Dave Thomas has done a lot for the programming community. He coined the phrase “DRY” (Don’t Repeat Yourself). He popularized the idea of code katas. He was one of the signers of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, and he's the founder of the Pragmatic Bookshelf publishing company. But despite all that, he refers to himself as simply a programmer. In this episode, he shares his own coding journey, gives advice to new developers on how to navigate the mountain of information available, and how he ended up becoming a publisher. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) Lone Star Ruby Elixir Tacit knowledge Design patterns C2.com Airbrake Avdi Grimm CodeNewbie Austin Elm Functional programming Statically Typed vs. Dynamically Typed Languages Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 49 - Getting The Job (Suzan Bond)
Suzan Bond calls herself a band manager, the title that captures the wide range of activities she does in her work helping developers grow their careers. Her marketing, negotiating, and career management advice is filled with solemn, reflective thoughts on how to think through your first programming job, and the steps you can take to better navigate your career. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) Superhero Pose TED Talk Patreon : CodeNewbie Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 48 - Freelance to Full-Time (Nicole Dominguez)
Nicole Dominguez taught herself to code at a pretty young age, and by the time she was in high school, she had paying freelance clients. At 21, she reflects on her freelance days, what she’s learned as a teacher helping others learn coding concepts, and how she was able to teach herself enough to get to her current role as product designer and front-end developer. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) CSS testing snippet with * Muck Rack Sawhorse Media Startup Institute CodeNewbie Discourse Shorty Awards InDesign Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 47 - Design and Dev (Una Kravetz)
Una Kravets found her love of design at a young age, publishing homemade magazines complete with polls and special color editions and handing them out to her classmates. Now, she translates that love of design to code, building prototypes and design systems at IBM Design. She talks to us about her love of design and dev, how she open sourced her personal goals, and how CodeNewbies can better manage and achieve their coding goals. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) Wacom tablet Action Script 2.0 Bluemix The Open Design Foundation Neopets IBM Design Open Source Personal Goals Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 46 - Self Taught Programmer (Courteney Ervin)
Courteney Ervin taught herself to code. She did it in her spare time, finding hours late at night and on weekends to grow her skills. And in that time, she went to her first hackathon, made her first open source contribution, taught others to code, and finally found herself in a full-time role as a developer. She tells us about her journey, and the key moments that helped her advance her tech career, and shares advice on how others can make the most of their self-taught journey. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) Neocities Hack n Jill Girl Develop It Microsoft Access Code Montage Rubular Vanessa Hurst on the CodeNewbie Podcast Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 45 - Design Director (Kristy Tillman)
When you ask Kristy Tillman about design, she doesn’t just talk about designing for a screen. She touches on space, rooms, fliers, products, both physical and digital. Her fluid, all-encompassing concept of design might be new to our CodeNewbie community, but it’s crucial for her role as Design Director for the Society of Grownups. In this episode, we talk about her design process, how she hires for design roles, and what CodeNewbies can do when designing their own products. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) Society of Grown Ups IDEO Revision Path Sian Morson Digital Tools for Design Research IDEO's "Informing Our Intuition" Michael Hinricks Dribbbilisation of Everything Black Cool Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 44 - CSS Tricks (Chris Coyier)
It took years for CSS Tricks to become the popular front-end and design resource it is today. Creator Chris Coyier talks about starting the website in 2007 and how it’s grown to be the incredible front end community it is now. He also talks about his other project, CodePen, and how building community has been an integral part of the tool. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) A List Apart Element Query CSS Tricks CodePen Container Query Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 43 - Code and Hip Hop (Earl Bey)
Programmer Earl Bey has always been a hip hop fan. He’s been rapping since he was ten, and even had his own manager. When he was later introduced to tech, he dove into coding full time. Now, he blends his new passion for code with his love for hip hop. He talks about how he uses rap to retain new programming concepts, and gives us a taste of his lyrical skills in a performance of code-infused rhymes on FizzBuzz and Rails. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) ScriptEd FizzBuzz Stress Management article Canvs (formerly Mashwork) Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 42 - POODR And Beyond - Part II (Sandi Metz)
Sandi Metz describes herself as an "accidental author." Accident or not, her book Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (POODR) is beloved in the ruby community, and she's used her ability to break down complex coding topics to build the second phase of her programming career, one focused on teaching and speaking. In part II of this two-part interview, she talks to us about speaking, how she prepares for her talks and her plans for her upcoming book. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) Confessions of a Public Speaker Bailey White NPR This American Life Moth Radio Hour Bath Ruby CoffeeScript Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
Ep. 41 - POODR And Beyond - Part I (Sandi Metz)
Sandi Metz describes herself as an "accidental author." Accident or not, her book Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (POODR) is beloved in the ruby community, and she's used her ability to break down complex coding topics to build the second phase of her programming career, one focused on teaching and speaking. In part I of this two-part interview, she talks to us about life pre- and post-POODR, what makes her a great teacher, and why she it took her four years to write POODR. Show Links DevDiscuss (sponsor) DevNews (sponsor) New Relic (sponsor) Retool (sponsor) Microsoft 30 Days to Learn It (sponsor) RailsConf GoRuCo Exercism 99 Bottles of OOP Myers-Briggs Personality Test Theory of Mind POODR OO (Object Oriented) Programming Codeland Conf Codeland 2019