Build Podcast

Secure Shell (SSH) is a program to securely log in to another computer over a network and execute commands in that machine. In this episode, we will look into how to generate keys, ssh configurations, secure copy, known hosts and even AWS login.

GruntJS is tool task-based command line build tool for JavaScript projects. Automate your build tasks like concatenation, minification, linting, testing and many others with some simple configuration or even with some nifty GruntJS plugins!

Nanoc is tool for building static web sites. Using a static site generator like Nanoc has some advantages such as speed, security and local development. In this episode, we will explore how to build a blog with Nanoc!

Bash is a Unix shell and it is available by default in Linux and MAC. It is very useful as a developer to know shell scripting and we will explore how to automate tasks (shell scripting), set profile configurations (bash profile) and schedule tasks (cron job) - all in the name of efficiency!

If you are creating a hi-fidelity mockup for your web application, then Adobe Fireworks is a great software! We will build a little project to learn how to view CSS properties, build hover effects, insert html, rounded ractangles, styles and more. At the same time we will get to review some of the common design principles and legends such as Dieter Rams.

Jade is a templating language to output html. As a newbie, this is a great way to create static html pages by including basic logic, partial views and many more. For advanced uses, jade can also be used with NodeJS and ExpressJS.

YSlow is a great guideline on how to make your websites load faster. We will explore most of the 23 guidelines from YSlow and implement them in a little project and have fun getting to know the history of processors!

Github is an awesome website to find many open source projects, look at the code, contribute and discuss them. In this episode, we will see how we can create a project, push our project code to github, raise an issue, fix an issue, pull request and eventually merge a pull request.

We often want to test and develop our applications locally. Here we will learn how to setup local web servers with some simple configurations in 3 ways - (1) built-in MAC Apache (2) MAMP with Wordpress installation (3) Nginx.

RequireJS is a JavaScript file and module loader. A modular approach can improve the maintainability and quality of our code. In this episode, we will see how we can convert a project containing many script tags to just a single script tag, with greater support for dependancies and modules.

Zen Coding is available as an editor plugin for high-speed coding and editing especially in html. You can type in some shortcuts which will expand into html. It's excellent for productive coding.

Using 3 JavaScript libraries, we will create a completely responsive, fluid one pager on Space Exploration! We will use FittextJS for adaptable text, FitvidJS for adaptable video and Responsive Slides for adaptable slideshow.

SASS is a CSS pre-processor that makes authoring styles for our project very modular, readable, fast to change styles and tonnes of fun! While creating our SASS project, we will also learn about O-Notation - a fast way to measure efficiency in algorithms.

Package manager is a collection of tools for installing, upgrading, configuring and removing software packages in a computer. We will explore some commonly used ones such as RubyGems for ruby, Pip for python, Composer for php and NPM for NodeJS.

Sublime Text is a powerful text editor for coding. We will explore it's features like plugins, multiple selections and accessing projects, files and folders.