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**Full Stack Radio**

A podcast for developers interested in building great software products. Every episode, Adam Wathan is joined by a guest to talk about everything from product design and user experience to unit testing and system administration.

Latest Episodes:

53: Kyle Fiedler - Design Tips and Tricks for Developers Nov 02, 2016

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Kyle's personal website
thoughtbot on Dribbble
Design for Developers on Upcase
Using System UI Fonts In Web Design by Marcin Wichary
Design Tip: Never Use Black by Ian Storm Taylor
Should "Yes, delete it" be red, or green? on the UX Stack Exchange
7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI by Erik D. Kennedy
Panda Chrome Extension

52: Taylor Otwell - Patterns for Simplifying Laravel Applications Oct 18, 2016

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Test Driven Laravel, Adam's upcoming video course
Laravel
Laravel Valet
Laravel Spark
Laravel Passport
Example of splitting controllers
Basecamp Rake Stats
DHH Resources on Rails presentation
Nitpick CI
"I don't love the single responsibility principle" by Marco Cecconi
Martin Fowler on Tell Don't Ask
Chasing Perfect, Adam's talk at Laracon 2015
Adam's base Blade layout

51: Matt Wynne - Building the Right Thing with BDD Oct 05, 2016

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Topics include:

What exactly is BDD?
Is BDD a technical or non-technical practice?
How do you get started with BDD?
How do you keep the number of system tests low to keep your test suite fast?
What's your strategy for dealing with external services in acceptance tests?
What are the advantages of using Cucumber even as a solo developer working on a side project?

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Test Driven Laravel, Adam's upcoming video course
Matt's Blog
Matt's notes from Dan North's Awesome Acceptance Testing talk
Cucumber School
User Story Mapping
Impact Mapping
Introducing Example Mapping
The Rails Testing Pyramid
The Testing Iceberg
The Deep Synergy Between Testability and Good Design talk by Michael Feathers
The Training Wheels Came Off, Aslak Hellesøy on removing the built-in step definitions in Cucumber-Rails
Cucumber Blog
Cucumber on GitHub
The Cucumber Book

50: Evan You - What's Coming in Vue.js 2.0 Sep 21, 2016

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Topics include:

The motivation for rewriting Vue.js from scratch
What is a virtual DOM and what are the benefits?
How does Vue.js 2.0 stack up performance-wise? (spoiler alert, it's fast)
When should you use templates vs. a render function?
Why two-way props have been deprecated and what you should do instead
Best practices for dealing with custom component events
The 1.0 to 2.0 upgrade path
Building native mobile applications with Vue.js and Weex

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Test Driven Laravel, Adam's upcoming video course
Refactoring to Collections, get 25% off using the coupon "pnwphp"
Vue.js
Announcing Vue.js 2.0
Vue.js 2.0 Documentation
JS Framework Performance Benchmarks
Snabbdom, virtual DOM library
JSX plugin for Vue.js
Using v-on with Custom Events
Vue Migration Helper teaser
Weex, framework for building native mobile applications with Vue.js
Vue.js on Twitter
Vue.js Newsletter
Vue.js Feed

49: Toran Billups - Test Driving the Front-end Sep 07, 2016

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Test Driven Laravel, Adam's upcoming video course
Ember.js
QUnit testing framework
Ember Testing Documentation
Toran's TDD talk at EmberConf 2015
Outside-In TDD presentation, one of Toran's more recent talks
Toran's upcoming Outside-In TDD Workshop

48: Jessica Lord - Building Desktop Apps with Electron Aug 23, 2016

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Links:

Electron
Electron Blog
Atom
Electron API Demos
Photon, Electron UI kit
Built on Electron, Electron app directory
Mojibar, emoji searcher for OSX
HyperTerm, JS/HTML/CSS terminal
Nylas N1, email client
WebTorrent, streaming torrent client
Visual Studio Code, code editor
Awesome Electron, useful resources for creating apps with Electron
Devtron, Electron DevTools extension
Spectron, Electron testing framework
electron-quick-start, starter repo for new Electron apps

47: Sara Soueidan - Ditching Icon Fonts for SVG Aug 10, 2016

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46: Joe Ferris - Test Driven Rails Jul 28, 2016

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Links:

Test Driven Laravel, Adam's latest project
Giant Robots podcast
How We Test Rails Applications on the thoughtbot blog
Capybara
Capybara WebKit
RSpec
factory_girl
The Rails Testing Pyramid on the Code Climate blog

45: Derek Prior - From Rails to Phoenix Jul 13, 2016

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Links:

thoughtbot on Elixir and Phoenix
The Bikeshed Podcast
Exercism.io
Elixir, the functional programming language
Phoenix, the Elixir web framework
Ecto, the Phoenix database layer
Programming Elixir book by Dave Thomas
Programming Phoenix book by Chris McCord, Bruce Tate, and José Valim
Phoenix is not Rails by Chris McCord
The Bikeshed Episode 54, where Derek talks about dates and times in Elixir
Pact, the Elixir dependency injection library by Blake Williams
Elixir on Slack
Elixir Sips screencasts

44: Joel Clermont - What the heck is Elm? Jun 29, 2016

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Joel's Blog
The Elm Homepage
The ML language
The Elixir language
Exercism.io
Richard Feldman, working on "Elm in Action" book
"What is functional programming?" blog series by Kris Jenkins
Fizzbuzz in Elixir library
Haskell Programming from first principles book

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