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Ep. 49 - Getting The Job (Suzan Bond) Aug 17, 2015

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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.

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Suzan Bond

Suzan is a trained executive coach and a CMO-for-Hire for tech companies and software developers.

Ep. 48 - Freelance to Full-Time (Nicole Dominguez) Aug 10, 2015

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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.

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Nicole Dominguez

Nicole Dominguez is the Senior Product Designer and Front End Developer at Sawhorse Media. As a self-taught technologist, she is very passionate about art, design and development. She regularly participates in the New York tech community as a mentor, meetup organizer and instructor.

Ep. 47 - Design and Dev (Una Kravetz) Aug 03, 2015

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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.

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Una Kravetz

Una Kravets is a front end developer, architecting design systems and building software prototypes at IBM Design, Austin. She’s a core member of the Design Open Organization and founder of both the Sassy DC and ATX Sass Meetups.

Ep. 46 - Self Taught Programmer (Courteney Ervin) Jul 27, 2015

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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.

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Courteney Ervin

Courteney Ervin codes in the space where open source meets social good. She’s a developer at the New York Public Library, where she supports accessible literacy in NYC and beyond.

Ep. 45 - Design Director (Kristy Tillman) Jul 20, 2015

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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.

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Kristy Tillman

Kristy serves as the design director for Society of Grownups, a new venture that is changing the face of financial literacy for the young adult set. There she is dedicated to crafting and inspiring the brand across both the digital and physical experiences. Prior to Society of Grownups, Kristy was a designer at IDEO, an award winning global global design firm. There she worked on variety of projects ranging from brand to digital design.

Ep. 44 - CSS Tricks (Chris Coyier) Jul 13, 2015

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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.

Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier is the man behind the very popular CSS-Tricks website, which has helped new—and seasoned—developers sharpen their client-side, and sometimes server-side, skills for more than half a decade. Chris is the designer and co-founder for CodePen, co-authored a book, Digging into WordPress, co-hosts ShopTalk Show with Dave Ruppert, and speaks at international events.

Ep. 43 - Code and Hip Hop (Earl Bey) Jul 06, 2015

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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.

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Earl Bey

I am a young man on a path of self mastery and enlightenment, using programming as my walking stick. Since I was young I’ve loved music and hip hop and it is part of my mission to bring these two worlds together.

Ep. 42 - POODR And Beyond - Part II (Sandi Metz) Jun 29, 2015

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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.

Sandi Metz

Sandi is a programmer. In the past 30+ years, she has written innumerable applications, many of which are still running today. Sandi is a master of practical solutions that produce working software that is easy to change. She focuses on simplicity via clear code and straightforward explanations, and strives for these in her software and her writing.

Ep. 41 - POODR And Beyond - Part I (Sandi Metz) Jun 21, 2015

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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.

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Sandi Metz

Ep. 40 - From Cars To Code (Angel Jose) Jun 15, 2015

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Angel Jose went from selling cars to a working as a developer in under eight months. He talks to us about making that transition, how he found his job, and how he deals with self doubt as a new programmer.

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Angel Jose

Angel learned to code at the FirehoseProject and made a jump from a prior life as a contractor and car dealer into on as a software developer. He currently works at Sensay.it in Venice Beach, CA and is a proud member of the CodeNewbie community. You can find him hosting Ruby-Mondays or at @ajose01 in twitter.