Upfront Podcast

Download This week there’s no Ben unfortunately but guest Michael Heap steps up to talk about his extensive work with Node.js. We discuss how to get started with Node, which modules make their way into our toolkit and how we find working in Node. If you’ve been putting off Node, this episode and the notes below should be a good excuse to get started. Show Notes Michael on Twitter UnderscoreJS ExpressJS Socket.io node-restify Casper SailsJS The Unix Toolbox nodemon async.js winston commander.js passport.js passport offline

Download This week front-end performance expert Steve Workman chats to us to help us improve performance in our websites. We talk about the responsive images solution and other techniques for keeping your page slim. Show Notes Steve on Twitter Steve’s FOWD Talk London Web Standards The picture element proposal Clown Car technique webp image format

Download This week, BBC front-end developer Dan Donald joined us to chat about his side project Break The Page and his excellent series of web gigs; Speak the Web. Show Notes Dan on Twitter Speak the Web Break The Page Summit Awesome’s Hackference

Download It’s the half way mark of season 2! No guest this week so Ben and Jack have to go it alone. In this episode we chat about Firefox OS and talk about situations where potentially developers can stop using jQuery. Next week we will finally announce our competition winners and will be joined by a guest once more. Show Notes Remy Sharp: I know jQuery, now what? FirefoxOS Documentation FirefoxOS “Hello World” tutorial BBC “Cutting the Mustard”

Download This week Ben Frain joined us to chat Sass and how to get yourself up ‘n running with a Sass powered project. He’s a UI Developer for Bet365 and gives a great overview of tools like Grunt, CodeKit and LiveReload. Show Notes Ben on Twitter Responsive web design with HTML5 and CSS3 Sass and Compass for Designers CodeKit

Download This week Tom Ashworth jumped infront of the microphone and became our first guest to be recorded through Google Hangouts. We enjoyed it and we’re probably going to use it from now on, which means in the future we should be able to live stream! Tom is a talented JavaScript developer so we picked his mind about AngularJS and some of the side projects he works on which are well worth your time. Show Notes AngularJS Distra pulldown

Download This week Syd Lawrence joins us to tell us about how we should let developers play and stick to what we enjoy. Show Notes We Make Awesome Sh.it Search Instagram The 10 Hour Side Project Go Programming Language

Download This week Guardian client-side engineer Patrick Hamann joins us to tell us about how The Guardian are utilising tools like Bower, Grunt and others. Show Notes Guardian Mobile Site Bower Yeoman The Guardian on Github Government Digital Services on Github GruntJS BBC’s “cutting the mustard” David Bushell’s Blog Upfront Episode 9 with Harry Roberts

Download We’re back! Just the two of us this week to kick off Season 2. We talk about all the free stuff we’ve got to give away (see below) and move on to what we’ve been up to over the last month or so since Season 1 ended. Thanks to the guys at EventHandler, we’re giving away one ticket to GeekyConf. Tweet with the hashtag #upfrontgeeky to be in with winning one. You must be able to be in London on November 21st, and the prize is only the conference ticket. Travel, etc is all down to you. EventHandler have also given us a ticket to Daniel Knell’s Introduction to JS workshops. These run for 5 weeks in London so you should only enter if you’re LDN based and can attend. On the show I implied there’s only one date but I was wrong, there’s 5 weeks of classes. If you’re London based and can attend, tweet #upfrontjs to be in the running. Finally, Jeffrey Way has given us a year’s subscription to TutsPlus, a premium learning service with nearly 500 hours of video, 71 eBooks and loads of tutorials. To win this, tweet with #upfronttutsplus. You may enter all 3 giveaways but we will make sure a different person wins each one. You have until noon on Friday, June 7th to tweet, and then we’ll announce the results. Show Notes Discover Meteor Generate Conf pulldown thrift.im tilvim costarred Ben’s Medium blog

Download For our final episode of Season 1 we grabbed Sacha Greif to talk about MeteorJS and his passion for side projects. Thanks to everyone for all your feedback on this season; we’re taking a 4 week break before returning with more guests, more chat and maybe even a theme tune! Show Notes Sacha on Twitter Sacha’s Website MeteorJS The Meteor Book Side Projects Sidebar.io Telescope

Download This week Jon Gold joined us to chat about JavaScript frameworks (in particular Ember.js), designers coding and developers designing. Show Notes Jon on Twitter Jon’s Website Makeshift Ember.js Screencasts

Download This week designer, developer and student Dan Eden jumped on board to chat about his love of side projects, debate if a University degree is worthwhile and share some of his favourite design resources. Show Notes Dan on Twitter Dan’s Website Onword

Download This week designer, developer and student Dan Eden jumped on board to chat about his love of side projects, debate if a University degree is worthwhile and share some of his favourite design resources. Show Notes Dan on Twitter Dan’s Website Onword

Download This week we were joined by Harry Roberts to discuss all things CSS, including CSS preprocessors and his CSS framework, Inuit CSS, along with some Git and Github chatter too. Show Notes Harry on Twitter Harry’s Website Inuit CSS The Git Parable

Download This week we caught up with developer Andy Appleton to talk about testing, specifically JavaScript testing. We cover the difference between TDD and BDD, Unit Tests vs Integration Tests, automated testing, our favourite libraries, and a lot more. If you’re interested in testing your JavaScript, you really should give this a listen. Show Notes Andy on Twitter Andy’s Website Jasmine BDD Mocha JSHint JSLint