Developer Tea exists to help driven developers connect to their ultimate purpose and excel at their work so that they can positively impact the people they influence. With over 13 million downloads to date, Developer Tea is a short podcast hosted by Jonathan Cutrell (@jcutrell), co-founder of Spec and Director of Engineering at PBS. We hope you'll take the topics from this podcast and continue the conversation, either online or in person with your peers. Twitter: @developertea :: Email: developertea@gmail.com

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Scott Belsky, Part Two

May 06, 2015 00:16:42 12.07 MB Downloads: 0

Scott Belsky (@ScottBelsky) is the VP Products & Community at Adobe and cofounder of Behance. Scott is also a successful investor in major tech companies such as Periscope and Uber. Scott and I talk about the fundamental nature of creativity, why he created Behance, staying focused, the value of formal education, and what he wishes more people would ask him. Finally, at the end of the second part of the interview, Scott shares specific advice for developers who are wanting to work better with visionaries. Enjoy the interview! Links: Behance ActionMethod (discontinued) 99U Scott's book, Making Ideas Happen 99U Book Series This episode is sponsored by Intuit. Check out the developer sandbox and API explorer at http://intuit.me/DevTea to get started building apps for millions of small business today!

Scott Belsky, Part One

May 04, 2015 00:16:27 11.88 MB Downloads: 0

Scott Belsky is the VP Products & Community at Adobe and cofounder of Behance. Scott is also a successful investor in major tech companies such as Periscope and Uber. Scott and I talk about the fundamental nature of creativity, why he created Behance, staying focused, the value of formal education, and what he wishes more people would ask him. Finally, at the end of the second part of the interview, Scott shares specific advice for developers who are wanting to work better with visionaries. Enjoy the interview! Links: Behance ActionMethod (discontinued) 99U Scott's book, Making Ideas Happen 99U Book Series

Answering Front-end Developer Interview Questions: Explaining the Importance of Standards for the Web

May 01, 2015 00:08:00 5.81 MB Downloads: 0

In today's episode, we discuss the importance of standards and standards bodies for web technologies, specifically for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript specs. Links: Front-end Developer Interview Questions HTML5 Boilerplate Organization Mailing Lists for W3C Today's episode is sponsored by DigitalOcean. Go to https://digitalocean.com to get started, and use the promo code "DeveloperTea" on the billing page after you create your account to get a $10 credit!

Answering Listener Questions: Devin, a Non-Developer, Asks About Grasping Things That Go Over His Head, and Finding Starting Points

April 30, 2015 00:11:10 8.09 MB Downloads: 0

In this episode, long-time listener Devin asks about how to grasp things that go over his head. You're not alone, Devin! In this episode, I give you (and others just like you) encouragement in the midst of your confusion, as well as some more practical advice for learning something new. Today's sponsor is OneMonth.com - go to OneMonth.com/developertea and enroll today to get 25% off your first month!

Hampton Catlin, Part Two: Speedy Sass with libsass, Wordset.org and Open-Sourcing Our Words

April 29, 2015 00:26:44 19.29 MB Downloads: 0

In today's episode, I talk with Hampton Catlin about fast Sass compilation with libsass, and then we discuss his latest project, Wordset, and why we need a truly open source dictionary. Links for the whole interview: @hcatlin (tell him thanks for being on @developertea!) @DeveloperTea Ancient City Ruby Hampton's Survey (Askr) http://haml.info/ Heroku officially supports Puma Chris Coyier (on preferring Sass) @chriseppstein @nex3, Natalie Weizenbaum Rarebit http://wordset.org http://github.com/wordset This episode is sponsored by Intuit. Check out the developer sandbox and API explorer at http://intuit.me/DevTea

Hampton Catlin, Part One: Sass, the W3C, and (not) Being Data-Driven

April 27, 2015 00:26:56 19.44 MB Downloads: 0

@hcatlin (tell him thanks for being on @developertea!) @DeveloperTea Ancient City Ruby Hampton's Survey (Askr) http://haml.info/ Heroku officially supports Puma Chris Coyier (on preferring Sass) @chriseppstein @nex3, Natalie Weizenbaum Rarebit http://wordset.org http://github.com/wordset

Weekly Inspiration - Happiness and Doing Our Best Work: 3 Practical Steps to Getting The Right Things Done and Finding Focus State Faster

April 24, 2015 00:11:46 8.52 MB Downloads: 0

In today's inspiration episode, I discuss the importance of removing barriers between you and your most important work, and why that is such an important thing to do. I then discuss 3 practical steps you can try that have helped me get to my focus state, and get more meaningful work done every day. Today's episode is sponsored by DigitalOcean. Go to https://digitalocean.com to get started, and use the promo code "DeveloperTea" on the billing page after you create your account to get a $10 credit!

Part Two: Culture and Connecting to Our Work with Pamela Vickers

April 23, 2015 00:13:58 10.1 MB Downloads: 0

Pamela Vickers and I sat down at Ancient City Ruby to talk about culture, conferences, and ping pong. And it was awesome. @pwnela RailsGirls Atlanta PERMA MINSWAN Ruby Dramas (Avoiding) Ruby Drama Hampton's Ruby Survey

Part One: Culture and Connecting to Our Work with Pamela Vickers

April 22, 2015 00:10:52 7.87 MB Downloads: 0

Pamela Vickers and I sat down at Ancient City Ruby to talk about culture, conferences, and ping pong. And it was awesome. @pwnela RailsGirls Atlanta PERMA MINSWAN Ruby Dramas (Avoiding) Ruby Drama Hampton's Ruby Survey

Answering Listener Questions - Clyde Asks About Learning to Code while on the Road

April 20, 2015 00:13:16 9.6 MB Downloads: 0

In today's episode, Clyde asks about learning to code while on the road. If you've ever tried to focus in a new environment, or if you are learning to code while changing locations, this episode is for you! Today's episode is sponsored by Intuit. Check out http://intuit.me/DevTea to get started developing for millions of businesses, for free, today!

Part 2: Ben Lesh on Reactive Programming at Netflix, Massive Data, and the Threadsafe Future

April 17, 2015 00:40:20 29.09 MB Downloads: 0

Ben Lesh is a senior UI engineer at Netflix, where he works on projects that use reactive programming in JavaScript to manage massive amounts of data. Ben talks with me about a variety of topics, focusing on reactive programming and data stream processing. Ben also gives his advice to you, whether you are a young developer or well into your career. Make sure you Tweet at Ben at https://twitter.com/benlesh and thank him for coming on the show! Links: Reactive all the Things, Ben's talk at ng-conf BaconJS RXJS Jobs at Netflix Today's episode is sponsored by DigitalOcean. Go to https://digitalocean.com to get started, and use the promo code "DeveloperTea" on the billing page after you create your account to get a $10 credit!

Part 1: Ben Lesh on Reactive Programming at Netflix, Massive Data, and the Threadsafe Future

April 15, 2015 00:21:42 15.67 MB Downloads: 0

Ben Lesh is a senior UI engineer at Netflix, where he works on projects that use reactive programming in JavaScript to manage massive amounts of data. Ben talks with me about a variety of topics, focusing on reactive programming and data stream processing. Ben also gives his advice to you, whether you are a young developer or well into your career. Make sure you Tweet at Ben at https://twitter.com/benlesh and thank him for coming on the show! Links: Reactive all the Things, Ben's talk at ng-conf BaconJS RXJS Jobs at Netflix

How We Spend Our Days, How We Spend Our Lives, and One Way To Get a Better Grasp On Time

April 14, 2015 00:09:08 6.62 MB Downloads: 0

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. But how can we get a better grasp on time? In this episode, I share a simple tip that exploits our brain's natural tendency to take shortcuts to help you better experience time and avoid the feeling of "time flying by" faster than you'd like. Today's episode is sponsored by OneMonth.com - go to http://onemonth.com/developertea to get 25% off your first month!

Taking Best Practices and Advice with a Grain of Salt

April 13, 2015 00:09:08 6.62 MB Downloads: 0

In this episode, we talk about "best practices" and advice, and what you should do with those things in your day to day life. Today's episode sponsored by Intuit! Head over to http://intuit.me/DevTea to get started!

Ernie Miller and Human Development, Part Two (at Ancient City Ruby)

April 10, 2015 00:20:19 14.67 MB Downloads: 0

I had the pleasure of attending Ancient City Ruby and interviewing a few folks while I was there. Ernie Miller was a speaker at ACR, and also sat down with me to talk about agile, humane development, and the implications of technically oriented people making a track switch to management. Thanks, Ernie! Don't forget to follow @erniemiller on Twitter and let him know you enjoyed hearing him on @DeveloperTea! Links: Humane Development erniemiller.org @erniemiller Agile is dead. (Long live agility.) TDD is dead. Long live testing. @DeveloperTea developertea.com Today's episode is sponsored by Intuit Developer. Get started developing applications for millions of business already using Quickbooks at intuit.me/DevTea today! You can also give back to Developer Tea by going to https://developertea.com/donate!