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97: Predix UI & Polymer Jul 19, 2016

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The views expressed by Eric Knudtson on The Web Platform Podcast episode 97 do not necessarily represent the views of GE

Eric Knudtson (@vikingux) from GE Digital walks us through their Predix User Interface (Predix UI) Web Components library built on top of Google's Polymer Project. Predix is a cloud platform built to assist developers build for the 'Industrial Internet'. Under the Predix family or resources is Predix UI, a set of UI components that "enable designers and developers to quickly and easily create Industrial Internet web applications that run on top of Predix services and data." Eric also discusses challenges and best practices for managing a component based UI architecture, as well as GE's new open source initiatives.

Resources

InnerSource Book - http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/getting-started-with-innersource.csp
NvD3 Charting Library - https://github.com/novus/nvd3
Predix Site - https://predixdev.github.io/predix-ui/
Predix Family - https://www.predix.io/

96: DevOps & Chef Jul 07, 2016

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Nathen Harvey (@nathenharvey), VP of Community Development at Chef Software, joins us to discuss modern devops culture, tools, and practices as well as how Chef Software can help teams automate, scale, and reproduce tasks, and environments. Nathen defined devops as how to build high velocity organizations by reducing build and deployment cycles. Topics includes how to manage your infrastructure like code, devops community, Chef cookbooks and recipes, and improving your devops knowledge and processes as web developer.

Resources

Chef & Habitat

http://www.chef.io - Main Website
http://learn.chef.io - Tutorials and such for getting started with Chef & DevOps
DevOps Kung Fu - A talk from ChefConf 2015 that describes and defines the Principles, Forms, and Application of DevOps. It's also where I get my definition of DevOps from:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DEToXsgrPc - YouTube video of the talk
- https://github.com/chef/devops-kungfu - GitHub repository of the talk
- http://chef.github.io/devops-kungfu/#/ - slides from the talk
- http://chef.github.io/devops-kungfu/#/15 - definition of DevOps - A cultural and professional movement, focused on how we build and operate high velocity organizations, born from the experiences of its practitioners.
Open source Chef maintenance policy - https://github.com/chef/chef-rfc/blob/master/rfc030-maintenance-policy.md
https://www.habitat.sh/ - Habitat website which includes an overview of Habitat, online demo, and tutorials

Podcasts

Food Fight Show - http://foodfightshow.org
Arrested DevOps - https://www.arresteddevops.com/
DevOps Cafe - http://devopscafe.org/
The Ship Show - http://theshipshow.com/

Conferences

DevOpsDays - http://www.devopsdays.org/
ChefConf - https://chefconf.chef.io/
Surge - https://surge.omniti.com/2016
Velocity - http://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity
DevOps Enterprise Summit - http://events.itrevolution.com/

Puppet - https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet

95: Exploring JavaScript at Scale Jun 30, 2016

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Sean Fioritto (@sfioritto) talks with the panel on building large web applications in JavaScript. Sounds easy enough? This episode goes into building with large teams, large codebases, legacy migration, team building, frameworks & libraries, code smells and much more.

Resources

Sean's homeland - http://www.planningforaliens.com
Sean's awesome blog post 'Why Javascript Development is Crazy' - http://www.planningforaliens.com/blog/2016/04/11/why-js-development-is-crazy/
Strangular Application - http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerApplication.html
Atlassian on The Web Platform Podcast - http://thewebplatformpodcast.com/77-project-management-and-git-workflows
Sketching with CSS - http://www.sketchingwithcss.com/

94: Reactive Programming in JavaScript Jun 24, 2016

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Gleb Bahmutov (@bahmutov) chats with the panel on Reactive Programming in JavaScript. What is Reactive Programming? Join Gleb and the panel to learn about event streams, sequences over time, and how these help developers build complex JavaScript applications.

Resources

Gleb's 2016 OSConf Talk on Reactive Programming - http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/open-source-us/public/schedule/detail/49290
The talk is mostly how to train anyone coming to JavaScript in different techniques, each more powerful than the previous one.
Slides, video and all links to futher information in https://glebbahmutov.com/blog/oscon/
I posted the list of interesting things from OSCON at https://glebbahmutov.com/blog/oscon/#interesting-things-i-saw-at-oscon
Companion code repo showing the same simple example (literally multiply numbers then print them) implemented using different styles https://github.com/bahmutov/javascript-journey - from imperative to FRP and beyond.
The long and evolving blog post https://glebbahmutov.com/blog/journey-from-procedural-to-reactive-javascript-with-stops/ that I have been updating for the past two years.
Feathersjs - http://feathersjs.com/
Horizon.js from RethinkDB team - https://horizon.io/
Most.js stream library - https://github.com/cujojs/most
Cycle.js - pure reactive web framework - http://cycle.js.org/
Xstream - tiny stream library targeted at Cycle.js https://github.com/staltz/xstream

93: CSS Layout Composition & Modules Jun 15, 2016

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Rachel Andrew (@RachelAndrew) , Managing Director and founder of edgeofmyseat.com (currently working exclusively on CMS Perch), talks withe panel on the mysterious ways of CSS Layout. Rachel has been speaking quite a lot on the subject in the developer speaking circuit for a while now. Join us as she shares her stylish insights on Grid, Flexbox, Floats, Bootstrap, Regions, and much more.

Resources

http://gridbyexample.com - where I keep CSS Grid Layout stuff, info about browser support, code samples, inks to other resources I dig up.
http://csslayout.news - weekly newsletter on CSS Layout.
http://www.slideshare.net/zomigi/using-flexbox-today-frontend-united-2016 - Zoe Gillenwater slides, Using Flexbox Today
https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2016/03/30/should-i-use-grid-or-flexbox/ "Should I Use Grid or Flexbox?" Here is which to use and when.
http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexbox
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts CSS Working Group drafts on GitHub
https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2016/03/25/css-grid-and-css-regions/ Grid plus Regions
https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2016/03/16/css-exclusions-and-grid-layout/ Grid plus Exclusions
Solved By Flexbox - https://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/

92: I/O 2016 Recap Jun 13, 2016

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This week our panel talks with Kenneth Christiansen (@kennethrohde) about reactions and responses to Google I/O 2016. Listen to the goings on of I/O including news about Google products such as Android as well as their web products. The panel digs into Progressive Web Applications (PWA's) and discusses some of the community response to Google's approach on them. Firebase is another hot I/O topic, becoming an umbrella for different Google services and has gone through a major rebranding. Is Firebase still the same service so many fell in love with before the Google acquisition? These topics plus many more on Episode 92.

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91: LeanUX & Collaboration With Creatives Jun 03, 2016

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This week on the Web Platform Podcast Sam Quayle (@samquayle), Senior UX designer and front-end consultant at Valtech, joined us to discuss Lean UX with hosts Danny Blue, Justin Ribeiro, and Amal Hussein. Lean UX is a design approach which is fits the highly evolving needs of development teams creating products for the modern web. It allows for rapid iteration and user driven design. Sam shares best practices tips and his positive experiences with clients. A very interesting case study is the UK Government Digital Service adoption process, and the benefits they have seen from embracing Lean UX.

Show links: Slides from Sam's talk on Lean UX , the Lean UX book that started it all, and this awesome article

Resources

90: Rethinking Data in Web Applications May 25, 2016

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Michael Glukhovsky (@mglukhovsky), co-founder of the innovative Rethink brand, chats with us about two core free open source projects that are changing the ways we think of data in our web applications. Join us as we dive into the unique database known as RethinkDB. We also talk in depth about Horizon, a realtime JavaScript backend used to build powerful web & mobile apps that scale utilizing the power of RethinkDB.

Resources

RethinkDB - http://rethinkdb.com/
Horizon - https://horizon.io/
Rethink on GitHub - https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb
Horizon on GitHub - https://github.com/rethinkdb/horizon
Who to follow on Twitter:
- Mike Glukhovsky: http://twitter.com/mglukhovsky
- Annie Ruygt (resident artist at RethinkDB): https://twitter.com/annieruygt
- Horizon: http://twitter.com/horizonjs
- RethinkDB: http://twitter.com/rethinkdb
JSJ Ng-Conf - https://devchat.tv/js-jabber

89: Docker All The Web Things May 20, 2016

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This week on The Web Platform Podcast, Erik Isaksen, Danny Blue, and Leon Revill talk with Mano Marks (@ManoMarks) all about Docker and how containerized deployments can help you from the time you start your web project all the way to the time you need it to scale up. Is Docker good for small applications, large applications, or both? Is it all just and adorable excuse to put a whale mascot on merchandise? Likely not. Mano Marks informs three primarily front end developers on the exciting ways your can use Docker, from simple push button server solutions to creating Quake...yes, Quake.

Resources

Docker on Github - https://github.com/docker/docker
Docker main site - http://www.docker.com/
Docker Hub - https://hub.docker.com/
CodeShip Docs - http://pages.codeship.com/docker
Digital Ocean docs - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-the-digitalocean-docker-application

88: Cypress.io May 13, 2016

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Summary

Cypress.io is geared toward making testing easy and painless. Gleb Bahmutov (@bahmutov) and Brian Mann (@be_mann) chat with us on this upcoming project. Cypress eliminate the need for PhantomJS and Selenium. It aims to provide developers with instant feedback, reliable automation, and painless debugging, It is an interesting and different way of approaching how we think about testing code.

Show Links

Cypress.io - https://www.cypress.io/
Gitter - https://gitter.im/cypress-io/cypress
Docs - https://docs.cypress.io
Gleb's blog post: https://glebbahmutov.com/blog/web-testing-nirvana-with-cypress/

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