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Jewelbots and Getting Kids Coding (Interview) May 14, 2016

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Sara Chipps, the creator of Jewelbots, and George Stocker, the VP of Engineering at Jewelbots joined the show to talk about connected wearables for kids, keeping UX simple, building a business on open source, and influencing young girls through the possibilities of coding.

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Jewelbots - The friendship-bracelet for the Smartphone era - Friendship bracelets for the Smartphone Era (social networking, make games and custom friend animations by writing code and uploading it to their Jewelbots, transfer secret messages)
Jewelbots on GitHub GitHub page for JewelBots!
Girl Develop It Study material, courses on Web Concepts, HTML, CSS, ANGULAR.JS, Javascript, PHP and more
Girl Develop It on GitHub GitHub page for Girl Develop It!
Firebug - Developer Tools for FireFox!
ngCordova ngCordova is obsolete, please move to Ionic Native!! Ionic Native on GitHub. Documentation for Ionic Native.
Ionic: Advanced HTML5 Hybrid Mobile App Framework - Offical Website.
Miguel de Icaza on Wikipedia - Wikipedia page of Miguel de Icaza!

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23 years of Ruby (Interview) May 07, 2016

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Big show! Matz, creator of the Ruby programming language, joined the show to discuss where he began as a programmer, the origins of Ruby, its history and future, Ruby 3.0, concurrency and parallelism, Streem, Erlang, Elixir, and more.

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Full Stack Fest CFP – They have 16 speaker slots open. Talks are 40 minutes long, including Q&A.

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Why SQLite succeeded as a database (Interview) Apr 30, 2016

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This episode is part of our remastered greatest hits collection and features Richard Hipp, the creator of SQLite, talking with us about its history, where it came from, why it has succeeded as a database, how its development has been sustainably funded, and the how and why of it being the most widely deployed database engine in the world.

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SQLite Home Page
GDBM
fopen(3) - Linux manual page
Bruce Perens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia who co-founded the Open Source Initiative (OSI)

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JavaScript and Robots (Interview) Apr 19, 2016

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Raquel Vélez, aka Rockbot, joined the show to talk about where she came from, how she got into programming with JavaScript, her passion for robots and mechanical engineering, the culture of npm, and more.

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Full Stack Fest 2016 – Barcelona, Sept 5-9 2016 – Full Stack Fest is a weeklong full-stack development conference with a focus on solving current problems with new & inspiring perspectives. It aims to push new, interesting ideas to the whole technology stack, delivered by some of the brightest minds in our industry.

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Your Huginn Agents Are Standing By (Interview) Apr 15, 2016

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Andrew Cantino joined the show to talk with Jerod about Huginn, a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Think of it as a hackable Yahoo! Pipes plus IFTTT on your own server.

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DigitalOcean Block Storage – Introducing block storage: attach highly available and expandable storage to your Droplets, on demand. Coming Summer 2016. Use our code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new account.

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Haskell Programming (Interview) Mar 26, 2016

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Chris Allen and Julie Moronuki joined the show to talk about Haskell, their book “Haskell Programming”, learning to program, their book writing process, and more.

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The future of WordPress and Calypso (Interview) Mar 04, 2016

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Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress and the CEO of Automattic, joined the show to talk about the past, present, and future of WordPress. We talked about the role of JavaScript for WordPress, their new REST API, Calypso, and more.

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TiddlyWiki (Interview) Feb 27, 2016

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Jeremy Ruston joined the show to talk about TiddlyWiki — a unique non-linear notebook for capturing, organizing, and sharing complex information. It’s written in JavaScript and sports a custom fake DOM. We talked to Jeremy about his nearly 40 year career in programming, Hackability as a human right, Tiddlers — the atomic unit of data in TiddlyWiki and so much more.

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freeCodeCamp (Interview) Feb 12, 2016

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Quincy Larson is the creator of an open source community called freeCodeCamp. We talked with Quincy about “the secret to getting good at coding”, their curriculum that spans a solid year (totaling 2,080 hours) of deliberate coding practice, plans for financial sustainability of the project, and the people behind it on the leading/teaching side and the camper side.

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Elixir and the Future of Phoenix (Interview) Feb 09, 2016

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José Valim joined the show to talk about Elixir. We learned about the early days of José’s start as a programmer. José took us back to the beginning of Elixir and shared why Erlang got him so excited, we broke down features of the language, we talked about functional programming, concurrency, developing for multi-core systems, we talked about the Elixir community, the future of Phoenix, Ecto, and more.

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