Build Podcast

Jekyll is a blog-aware, static site generator in Ruby. In this episode, we will install jekyll, setup a new blog and do some configurations as well as importing posts from a previous Wordpress and even hosting it on Github Pages.

Apache is a popular open source http server that runs on many operating systems. We will go through some of the common config files and their settings on both Mac OSX and AWS EC2. Lastly, we will also go through what is the `.htaccess` file and some of its configurations.

Capistrano is remote multi-server automation tool that is often used for deployment. In this episode, we will first learn how to execute command line tasks in several servers, then we will deploy a Github repo on a newly fired up EC2 instance.

Lodash is a utility belt JavaScript library. It is also a hard dependency for BackboneJS, as a drop-in replacement for UnderscoreJS with performance enhancement. In this episode we will create a simple project using some functions of Lodash along with its micro templating features. We will also explore the custom build functions and source maps.

Amazon Web Services or AWS is a set of web based services by Amazon. We will use Elastic Cloud Compute to launch a simple html page as well as a hello world in NodeJS. Next, we will use Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a Sinatra hello world with GIT.

Travis CI is a hosted continuous integration platform fre for open source. In this episode, we will create 3 hello world projects on Sinatra (Ruby), Flask (Python) and NodeJS (JavaScript) and see how we can use Github and Travis CI for easy continuous integration.

Inuit.css is a powerful, scalable, Sass-based, BEM, OOCSS framework. In this episode, we will create a simple page on modern communication protocol used for Internet using the Inuit.css framework!

Closure is a set of tools developed by Google and the Closure Compiler is part of it for JavaScript optimisation and minification. In this episode, we will take a simple JavaScript project about CSS colors and run it through the various features of Closure! We will also use the [Closure Lint and check our code.

Oh My ZSH is a community driven project for managing zsh configuration. We will explore some functions of z-shell (zsh), iTerm and Oh My ZSH so that we can get to be a little more productive in our daily coding hours!

API or application programming interface is a protocol to communicate with other software components. In the world of web API, content created in one place can be displayed or updated from another location in the web. In this episode, we will create a little fun memory page for 2012 using Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Github, Flickr and Google Maps API.

Yeoman serves to help us create a modern workflow for building modern applications. In this episode, we will create a little project on terminologies related to object-oriented programming (oop) that will help us explore the main features of Yeoman such as scaffolding, compiling into css and js, linting, starting a local web server, image optimisation and so much more!

Modernizr is a library for detecting whether the user's browsers have certain features and based on the availability, we developers will trigger certain functions or styles. In this episode, we will take a simple slideshow and use both javascript and css3 to make the transitions based on features available with libraries such as yepnope and html5shiv. Most importantly, we will scratch the surface of what is graceful degradation and progressive enhancement.

VirtualBox is an amazing tool where we can run different operating systems in our MAC OSX machines! In this episode, we will learn how to run a Windows 8, Arch and Ubuntu operating systems and run them in the same machine all in the spirit of exploring different philosophies and technologies of operating systems!

Heroku is an online platform where we can easily deploy and scale our applications. Whether we are looking to build an experimental app, or our app that we intend to scale up one day, Heroku is a great platform to get start with. In this episode, we will deploy our previous Rails application and explore some features!

Ruby on Rails is an open source web application development framework that allows us to rapidly build web apps. In this episode, we will create a very simple todo application and go through some concepts such as query, db migration, associations, routes, views and more!