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Vets who Code with Jerome Hardaway
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Checking in with Joel Spolsky who says I suck at Excel
I'm in New York this week checking in with Joel Spolsky from StackExchange/StackOverflow. Big things are happening in Joel's world. They've just hired Anil Dash to be the CEO of FogCreek and launched a new product. What's it like to be Joel and what's it like to NOT suck at Excel?
Is it OK to build websites that require JavaScript? with Nolan Lawson
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Including Automation in your Definition of Done with Angie Jones
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Visualizing Mathematics with 3D Printing and Henry Segerman
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Rethinking Front End Design and Development with Una Kravets
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Being a Polyglot Programmer with Amir Rajan
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Alcohol and the Tech Industry with Victor Yocco
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Interactive Computing Experiences with nteract and Safia Abdalla
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Mob Programming with Woody Zuill
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Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn with Sandi Metz
Sandi Metz and Scott explore the art and science of teaching. How to people learn? How can we be better teachers? When presenting information, what's the best way to get it from your brain into the students? Why am I phrasing everything like a question? All this and more on this week's episode.
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Orchestrating and automating deployments with Octopus Deploy and Damian Brady
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