Code & Cast

  In Episode 21 we present… Unbreakable. Perfect: The Craft of Code The best welders create seams so perfect that flaws cannot be detected even by an X-ray. Most welders will never get there. Code is no different. Do you write code that ‘works’ or code that is crafted so perfectly it will never show a flaw? We will explore timeless principles that make great code: recognizing code smells, writing for testability, keeping things simple and clear. Many of these ideas were written down decades ago, but are still ignored. The most important first step is viewing code as a craft, something that is done for it’s own sake rather than something hacked out to solve a problem. In this session, you’ll learn how to create a plan for steady improvements. Syntax, languages, frameworks all fade away. A mindset that is focused on craft will never fail. Found on: iTunes Overcast RSS SoundCloud Google Play Music Anywhere podcasts are available Show Notes Topics:  Introduction – 0:00 Craftsmanship – 1:00 Mentorship – 12:19 Leveling up – 23:38 Picks – 39:47 Promo code and link – 45:44 Outro – 46:14 From Joe’s conference talk on craftsmanship: Slides Video Joe’s book Simplifying Javascript Use promo Code: KCDC_2018 Picks: Joe Devdocs.io Xero Shoes Landon  Fuel Core Sonic Rambox Jacob Chuck II Zoom Richard RunRepeat Social: Meetup Twitter

  In Episode 20 we chat about everything interviews with our experiences on both sides of the table. Topics include resumes, appearance, and what the interviewer is looking for. Found on: iTunes Overcast RSS SoundCloud Google Play Music Anywhere podcasts are available Show Notes Topics:  Introduction: 0:30 Resumes 1:00 Appearence 13:04 Looking for 26:00 Picks: 41:50 Picks Eric The Little Book of Common Sense Investing Landon UE Boom bluetooth speaker with Alexa Nova Launcher Jacob Barry on HBO Richard iFixit Social: Meetup Twitter

  In Episode 19 we talk to Allison Hartnett – Regional Manager of TEALS, about their work in high schools throughout the US to build and grow sustainable computer science programs. Found on: iTunes Overcast RSS SoundCloud Google Play Music Anywhere podcasts are available Show Notes Topics: Teals: 3:25 Getting Started: 27:00 Picks: 35:39 Picks: Allison Art of the Brick at Union Station Teals Volunteer Link Richard: Movies Anywhere Eric: Daylio Star Wars: The Last Jedi Jacob Google Home Landon Black Panther   Social: Meetup Twitter

  In Episode 18 we discuss methods for time management. What has worked well and why. Then we talk about leadership, what does good leadership look like and how can we be better leaders ourselves. Found on: iTunes Overcast RSS SoundCloud Google Play Music Anywhere podcasts are available Show Notes Topics: Introduction: 0:16 Time Management: 0:34 Leadership: 25:19 Picks: 41:07 Picks: Richard: Billy Graham Eric: Sky Force Reloaded for Apple TV Jacob Earth Tones by Bahamas Landon GC Membership Rayman Legends Social: Meetup Twitter

  In Episode 17 we kick off season 3 with introducing 2 new hosts and jumping into a little chat over minimalism and resolutions to get the year started. Found on: iTunes Overcast RSS SoundCloud Google Play Music Anywhere podcasts are available Show Notes Topics: Host introductions: 1:43 Minimalism: 4:17 Picks: 25:33 Resolutions: 34:26 Picks: Richard: set.app Eric: Unscripted Drupal 8 Theming with Twig Terminal training Jacob Jen Simmons CSS Grid Wes Bos CSS Grid Landon The Alienist Social: Meetup Twitter

In Episode 16 we talk to Jonathan Mills about publishing content on Pluralsight and have some Javascript QA with special guest Nate Dean. iTunes RSS SoundCloud Google Play Music Anywhere podcasts are available Show Notes Topics: Pluralsight and presenting (1:00) Javascript (24:00) Architecture (36:45) Favorites (45:27) Picks (58:23) Picks: KCDC – (Jonathan) Cory House – (Nate) Dan Abramov  – (Nate) Pluralsight – (Landon) React Conf – (Landon) Social: Meetup Twitter

As we know the world of tech moves very fast! In Episode 15 we talk to Nick Haynes about his journey through an evolving tech landscape and some of the lessons learned along the way. iTunes RSS SoundCloud Google Play Music Anywhere podcasts are available Show Notes Topics: Intros (1:00) Main Topic (11:45) Picks (43:30) Picks: nodeschool.io – (Andrew) The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine – (Andrew) USB voice recorder – (Landon) Fire Emblem Heroes – (Landon) Atomic Design – (Jacob) Jig repo – (Jacob) NPM scripts – (Nick) typing.io – (Nick) Social: Meetup Twitter

As we know the world of tech moves very fast! In Episode 15 we talk to Nick Haynes about his journey through an evolving tech landscape and some of the lessons learned along the way. iTunes RSS SoundCloud Google Play Music Anywhere podcasts are available Show Notes Topics: Intros (1:00) Main Topic (11:45) Picks (43:30) Picks: nodeschool.io – (Andrew) The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine – (Andrew) USB voice recorder – (Landon) Fire Emblem Heroes – (Landon) Atomic Design – (Jacob) Jig repo – (Jacob) NPM scripts – (Nick) typing.io – (Nick) Social: Meetup Twitter

In Episode 14 we have guests Arun Mascarenhas and Chris Stanley to talk about their editor/IDE of choice (VIM and Webstorm) along with the tools, tips and preferences for those editors. iTunes RSS SoundCloud Google Play Music Anywhere podcasts are available Show Notes Topics: Intros (1:27) VIM (9:20) Webstorm (24:20) Picks (38:58) Picks: Next-Up – (Landon) Jira Zap – (Landon) Jirio – (Landon) Unsplash – (Jacob) MidwestDevs – (Chris) Brunch.io – (Arun) Arun Links: http://www.arunmascarenhas.com/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most-productive-shortcut-with-vim/1220118 https://github.com/arunmascarenhas/config-files https://github.com/arunmascarenhas/brunch-with-elm-jade-stylus https://github.com/overtone/emacs-live Vim starter kit: http://vim.spf13.com/ List of Vim plugins: http://vimawesome.com/ Discussion about Vim plugin managers: http://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/388/what-is-the-difference-between-the-vim-plugin-managers and https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/1w4udb/best_vim_plugin_manager/?st=iv2h1h38&sh=e45507e6 https://github.com/foxweb/vim-pedal Social: Meetup Twitter

  This episode is brought to you by O’Reilly’s Software Architecture Conference. In this episode we interview Neal Ford, the Program chair of the conference. O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference November 14–16, 2016, San Francisco, California Save 20% with code: PCA iTunes RSS SoundCloud Google Play Music Anywhere podcasts are available Show Notes   Picks: Thoughtworks tech radar – (Neal) Clojure spec – (Neal) Raindrop.io – (Jacob) Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less  – (Landon) Social: Meetup Twitter

  In Episode 12 we talk with Bill Dinger about Infrastructure, monitoring, docker, and we pick some cool tools with perfect radio flow. Enjoy! iTunes RSS SoundCloud Google Play Music Anywhere podcasts are available Show Notes Topics: Infrastructure (1:00) Monitoring (40:43) Docker (45:47) Picks (1:05:03) Picks: PluralSight – (Bill) Postman – (Bill) Let’s Encrypt  – (Bill) Qualys SSL Labs  – (Bill) Nightwatch.js – (Andrew) Clippy – (Jacob) Social: Meetup Twitter

  In Episode 11 the gang talks with Matt Bell about his awesome job and VR a.k.a virtual reality. iTunes RSS SoundCloud Google Play Music Anywhere podcasts are available Show Notes Topics: Virtual Reality (5:05) Picks (35:55) Picks: HTC Vive – (Matt Bell) Andrew things – (Andrew) Big letter shirt – (Jacob) Contigo water bottle – (Landon) Social: Meetup Twitter

In Episode 10 we talk about what data science is and the fascinating information that comes from it. Want to get involved and start to tackle some big data? Jerome Scheuring tells us how. iTunes RSS SoundCloud Google Play Music Anywhere podcasts are available Show Notes Topics: Data Science (3:35) Picks (48:48) Picks: scikit-learn – (Jerome) Permaculture A Designers Manual – (Andrew) Daisy Disk– (Landon) Farmbot – (Landon) Social: Meetup Twitter

In Episode 9 we talk about our recent experiences with Angular 2, the good, the bad and the awesome! Then we talk about staying motivated in the workplace and home when burnout starts to set in. iTunes RSS SoundCloud Google Play Music Anywhere podcasts are available Show Notes Topics: Angular 2 (0:38) Burnout in the workplace and at home (35:48) Picks (57:10) Picks: Reedsy – (Eric) Headspace – (Eric) Up and Running with Typescript – (Landon) Slacker – (Jacob) Let’s Encrypt – (Andrew) Social: Meetup Twitter

  Special edition episode features Ryan Mott to talk about a new Kansas City tradition the Maker Faire. Jacob talks to Ryan about his upcoming project and getting involved in the community. http://www.makerfairekc.com/ iTunes RSS SoundCloud Google Play Music Anywhere podcasts are available Show Notes Topics: About Ryan’s project (0:45) Maker Fair event and community (8:45) Social: Meetup Twitter

  Episode 8 includes guest Stephanie Serafine to talk about mentoring developers and working with code bootcamps also joining in is a recent code bootcamp graduate, Frankie Cline. iTunes RSS SoundCloud Google Play Music Anywhere podcasts are available Show Notes Topics: About Steph (5:00) Mentoring developers and bootcamps (12:45) Picks (45:42) Picks: Smartest man in the world – (Steph) Angular 2 – (Landon) Audible – (Landon) Toggl – (Frankie) Workmanship manual – (Jacob) Kobalt 15″ pry bar – (Andrew) Social: Meetup Twitter

Episode 7 includes guests resident CodeAnd gaming commissioner Ben Summers and the super sneaky Drupal kraken and book writer Eric J. Gruber to discuss his publishing experiences, challenging yourself to learn, along with other silly high jinks. iTunes RSS SoundCloud Google Play Music Anywhere podcasts are available Show Notes Topics: Book Publishing (13:00) Challenging Yourself to Learn (39:00) Picks: LastPass – (Landon) ScreenCastify – (Landon) The Wilderness – Explosions in the Sky new album – (Jacob) OXO POP containers – (Andrew) jshint.com – (Eric J. Gruber) Social: Meetup Twitter

This episode our guest Seth Etter explains what civic hacking is and how to get involved in your local area to help better your community. Speaking of community, how about your local dev community? We talk about curating dev communities and some of the challenges and benefits that come along with it. Also available on: iTunes RSS SoundCloud Anywhere podcasts are available Show Notes Topics: Civic Hacking (8:18) Open Data (16:21) Curating Communities (26:23) Learn more about civic hacking: As for an article to clearly define “civic hacking”, this one nails it https://www.codeforamerica.org/blog/2013/06/07/defining-civic-hacking/ For checking out what data is available from the national level there is https://www.data.gov/ Recently the White House released this “opportunity” initiative to call for community leaders to leverage open data for public good, which is very relevant to civic hacking https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/07/fact-sheet-white-house-launches-opportunity-project-utilizing-open-data For civic hacking, checking Code For America in general would be good (codeforamerica.org). Also looking at any of their brigades. Smart Chicago is a good organization to check out too http://www.smartchicagocollaborative.org/ http://www.codeforamerica.org/brigade/Code-for-Kansas-City/ “Civic Innovation is a new idea, technology or methodology that challenges and improves upon existing processes and systems, thereby improving the lives of citizens or the function of the society that they live within.” — Alex Howard Developer Picks: Sherlock – (Landon) Billy subscription management app – (Jacob) Litmus – (Andrew) National Day of Civic Hacking – (Seth) Social: Meetup Twitter

Most of us have worked with The Agile Methodology in the work place, but what about at Agile at home? Preston Chandler explains to us how he utilizes some of the Agile principles in day to day life with his family. Continuing to talk about other project management processes we then debunk some of the myths about waterfall and the history of Lean Manufacturing. Also available on: iTunes RSS SoundCloud Anywhere podcasts are available Show Notes Topics: Agile in Real Life (14:50) Myth of Waterfall (29:10) History of Lean Manufacturing (37:38) There’s no such thing as the Waterfall Approach! Developer Picks: Generate WP – (Jacob) The Sprint Book – (Preston) StyleBot Plugin – (Landon) MagicCSS – (Landon) BrassCraft Push Fittings – (Andrew)

This episode we talk about the integration of Content Management Systems with modern frameworks like Angular and React and getting them to play like a team. Then we move on to building the high functioning teams and how it doesn’t always take a team full of all-stars to make an awesome and winning team. Also available on: iTunes RSS SoundCloud Anywhere podcasts are available Show Notes Topics: CMS / Frameworks (8:58) Building high functioning teams (22:43) Developer Picks: Icon Finder – (Jacob) Watch GIFs while running npm install – (Erik) Functional Programming for JavaScript – (Erik) Introducing Operator: A monospace typeface – (Erik) iTerm beta 3 – (Landon) Opinel No. 8 – (Andrew)