Upfront Podcast

Download No guest this week I’m afraid! We took this week to catch up, answer some questions from listeners and discuss workflow and tooling on a Chromebook and in the “cloud”. Show Notes Meteor D3.js example Cloud9 IDE Bootstrap Vagrant

Download No Jack F this week as he’s off skiing in Bulgaria, but Ben caught up with designer Jack Smith to chat about design, the responsive web, designing in the browser, workflows and shipping, along with the (terrible) habit of resizing a web page to see if it’s responsive. Show Notes Jack Smith Journal and Portfolio Jack Smith on Twitter No one’s forgotten how to pinch and zoom Go Cardless: Ditching Responsive Design Striving The side project project SVGeezy Musings.im

Download This week we spoke to Rachel Andrew on hosting “Gotchas” and the really little content management system “Perch”. Show Notes Rachel Andrew Rachel’s book on CSS3 Layout Modules Perch CMS

Download This week we grabbed designer Laura Kalbag and asked her about mentoring people new to the industry and also about accessibility, and why some developers treat it as an after thought at best, and how we can improve it. Show Notes Laura Kalbag Laura’s blog on mentoring The a11y project The Web Platform New to Accessibility

Download In our 3rd episode we catch up with developer Phil Nash to talk about CSS Layouts and what’s hopefully going to be available to us down the road. Phil explains why floats are not the best resource for layouts and we chat about displaying elements as tables in CSS, Flexbox and Microsoft’s attempt, CSS Grids. Show Notes Phil on Twitter Everything you know about CSS is Wrong Flexbox Article on MDN Flexbox Playground CSS3 Grid Layout Beginning jQuery Upfront Podcast on Twitter

Download In Episode 2 of Upfront Podcast we chat with JavaScript and Backbone expert Derick Bailey about the merits of using Backbone for JavaScript applications. We also chat about Marionette, Derick’s own set of tools that provide a lot of the boilerplate code typically associated with Backbone. It’s a pretty JavaScript-heavy podcast in which we discuss the use cases in which Backbone is a good fit, when perhaps it’s not, and good resources to get you started. Next week we’ll be talking CSS layouts. And we are now on iTunes!. Show Notes Los Techies Derick on Twitter KendoUI AngularJS MeteorJS BackboneJS MarionetteJS Step by step from jQuery to Backbone Backbone Fundamentals Backbone Resources Upfront Podcast on Twitter

Download In Episode 2 of Upfront Podcast we chat with JavaScript and Backbone expert Derick Bailey about the merits of using Backbone for JavaScript applications. We also chat about Marionette, Derick’s own set of tools that provide a lot of the boilerplate code typically associated with Backbone. It’s a pretty JavaScript-heavy podcast in which we discuss the use cases in which Backbone is a good fit, when perhaps it’s not, and good resources to get you started. Next week we’ll be talking CSS layouts. And we are now on iTunes!. Show Notes Los Techies Derick on Twitter KendoUI AngularJS MeteorJS BackboneJS MarionetteJS Step by step from jQuery to Backbone Backbone Fundamentals Backbone Resources Upfront Podcast on Twitter

Download Welcome to Upfront Podcast! In this short episode, we introduce ourselves, our aims for the podcast and talk a little about Heisenberg, an open source project we’ve both been working on recently. This show is around 15 minutes, although we’ll typically be aiming for 30 minutes once we add a guest to the equation. Any feedback, topic or guest suggestions, drop us a tweet! iTunes link will be up soon, too. Show Notes HeisenbergJS Yeoman Ben on Twitter Jack on Twitter Upfront Podcast on Twitter

Download Welcome to Upfront Podcast! In this short episode, we introduce ourselves, our aims for the podcast and talk a little about Heisenberg, an open source project we’ve both been working on recently. This show is around 15 minutes, although we’ll typically be aiming for 30 minutes once we add a guest to the equation. Any feedback, topic or guest suggestions, drop us a tweet! iTunes link will be up soon, too. Show Notes HeisenbergJS Yeoman Ben on Twitter Jack on Twitter Upfront Podcast on Twitter